[ Computering and organizing

Last weekend it was 20c / 68f here in Tokyo, and I saw a few people in t-shirts
and someone in shorts. It then snowed on Monday and Tuesday night.

In my last entry I said that I wasn't tinkering with computers anymore, but I
had to the other day, when my MacBook Air was out of order. While it was down,
I moved over to an old DELL laptop I got last year.

I have not had good luck with *BSD on laptops, so I installed Ubuntu, which I
find to be really quite nice. I found out that the RAM can be upgraded too, so
I bumped it up to 16Gb. I was amazed at how easy it was to do - and that it was
even possible to begin with - but I guess that's just me coming from the Mac
world. It wasn't always like that over there, but I'm not going to wander down
memory lane this time.

I also work continuously to keep my personal data in order. I have it setup so
that data can be accessed quickly and easily, on a number of machines. The
reason I strive to do this, is partially in reaction to where I work. There,
it's a disgrace.

There, documentation is poor or it doesn't exist to begin with. Sometimes it's
riddled with grammatical errors, and it often has important details missing.
When it does, it's a challenge to find anyone who knows the correct answer. At
times I feel like we're hundreds of years in the past, when things were only
passed down by word of mouth.

Well I may have to deal with that at work, but I'll be damned if I have to do
that on my own time, and thus I have my organizational system.

I am reminded of years ago when I went to renew my passport. I followed the
instructions of what to bring, and organized it all in plastic folder. At the
window I handed everything over, and I was done in no time. The man smiled and
said "You're very well prepared!" Meanwhile near me was another person getting
their passport renewed. They didn't even have a pencil, and they had no idea
how to fill out the form.

Have a good day'