October 2009 Archives

As a Linux/Unix guy and complete Apple fanboy, there is very little room for Windows in my world. So, when my new employer provided me a fine piece of Dell hardware complete with Windows XP, all I could do was shrug with my head down low. "Well", I thought, "At least it can run Linux" was the first thing I thought of.

Unfortunately for me, work had bogged me down for nearly a year. Yes, I was forced to run that craptastic operating system for that long. But then Ubuntu 9.10 beta came out complete with a shiny new Gnome 2.28, and I suddenly had the urge to start backing things up; cause this fine piece of Dell hardware was about to get a transplant.

So, I'm backing up application preferences, license keys and important documents, deleting them from the disk when they were complete. Then I noticed that after emptying my recycle bin, that the icon on the desktop still looked like there was 'trash' in it. So I tried to empty it again and WTF? Mr. Craptastic made a prediction and it was about to come true. Yes, Windows wanted to delete 'WINDOWS' from my recycle bin. Shocked, I busted out laughing; coworkers looked cross-eyed at me. But seriously, it was so fitting for the situation and yet so utterly random that I had to take a screengrab.