On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 00:41:19 GMT, Mike Koenecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
somehow managed to type:
>Agreed. I'm afraid that all that Microsoft "My Pictures," "My Files,"
>"My Documents," ad nauseum makes me want to puke. I keep my data in a
>directory called "Data".
Wow, that's organised. I currently have a "stuff" directory, sitting
alongside "stuff2", "morestuff" and "stuph". When is someone going to come
up with a better way of organising filesystems? Surely you could do pretty
cool things if the fs kept a database of arbitrary file attributes, with
pluggable modules by MIME-type so you could have the filesystem
do things like auto-index mp3's by their id tags, or HTML files by
their meta-tags... But I digress.
That said, the "My Foo" syndrome deserves to die. After the explosion
lf "My" websites ("My Netscape", "My Yahoo"), and dating back to
everyone's favourite tech-support nightmare, "My Computer" ("Click on 'My
Computer'." "But I can't see your computer from here!"), the whole concept
has just become overused, old and tacky.
Charles Miller
