Thursday, September 6, 2007

a file named suhaib

Every once in a while i get disgusted by the state of disarray that my lappie usually falls into. And every once in so many times when I've thought about it, i also go one step ahead and try doing something about it.

And that’s when I find it.

The file named 'suhaib'.

That being the most descriptive name that would have occurred to me when naming that particular masterpiece. It doesn't matter what I have stored in it. Downloads from the net, projects reports, jokes, photos, a note telling myself to clean my lappie. All of them have the same inexplicably perplexing and bewildering name.

Happens to folders too. The clincher is when I find files named ‘suhaib’ inside folders named (surprise!) ‘suhaib’. Of course I never stop at just the one file name inside the folder. There’s inadvertently one ‘suhaib’ of each kind. One word doc, one pdf, one playlist, you name it! (pun unintended)

And there are always the edited versions. And in my infinite creativity I would have named them ‘suhaib1’, ‘suhaib2’ and so on.

And not necessarily in order!

I do agree that I’m not always this moronic when naming files. Sometimes I name them ‘suhaib revised’, ‘suhaib edited’, ‘suhaib v1’ and ‘suhaib v2’. Lucky me!

A virus trying to screw up my comp by filling it with suhaib files wouldn’t have been able to do a job nearly as comparable.

2 comments:

Partha said...

U forgot to mention MANFEST folders!!! :P

Pronitha said...

I had read this almost 2 years ago.
But couldnt help revisiting the article when I found on my desktop "Pro_C_Brief_final_final_final_3.docx"