25-VIII-2013.
Today we made a threerthday - Go and I had it overyester, Neša's will be yonmorrow*, therefore today. Lena was here, we got dad in too, so were as complete as possible.
The lunch was something sunday. I didn't pull out the eos40 until the cake was brought in, but judging by the pepper grinder, salat bowl and a plate with some meat and potato being still on the table, it must have been a full sunday menu, soup roast salad.
Dad brought some wine, macedonian, „T'ga za jug“ (sorrow for south, but should be taken as nostalgy) - no matter how black wines don't sit well with me, this hit the spot. The cake was three storeys, it being a threerthday, from that Brižita of his... spray painted over artificial cream, some of it blue. We were underwhelmed (them whelmers never hit it right) but what can we do, when he ties his trust to someone, that person can muck it up many times before getting shooed away.
We tried to explain to Neša what to do with the candle, but it didn't take. It's easier to explain with two or three candles, guess there's less to explain, becomes obvious.
After lunch we sat under the walnut, around the camp table. The white plastic chairs from 1995 still work. Dad got into a special mood, and I think he went on with one of his long stories, which I may have recorded on the nokla... um, nope, that was some other time, in the same setting, that's what makes the best deja vus.
In the afternoon, on UT, I wrote this in response to what Jan wrote in a discussion about "type a search" vs "click an icon in the start menu":
What do you think is easier for the average user: Memorizing a command or Memorizing an Icon and its location?
I personally would not bet on the first, esspecially if you work with different windows versions in different languages and considering the fact tha MS tends to change the names of the items previously found on the windows menu.
They change the icons and their locations as well. I've seen various Office apps in rather different locations in the main menu. SQL server as well - sometimes it takes me several days to get used to how things are named and laid out in the menu.
The names of the programs are an even worse offender - most of the .exe and .dll files in windows directories still use 8.3 names (!). Just try to remember what dism.exe, dccw.exe, dpapimig.exe, efsui.exe, icardagt.exe‚, mshta.exe, netiougc.exe etc etc do. Same in program files: Dwtrig20.exe, ielowutil.exe, qrdrsvc.exe, snapshot.exe, LandingPage.exe, rdbgsetup.exe (the last four belong to SQL but you'd never guess), wabmig.exe (windows mail), mspdbsrv.exe, vsta.exe... or (in my q:\sopstver directory), Cnezmain.exe, cmview.exe, IJRMF.exe (something in Canon's directories) and so on and so on. And that's almost 20 years after long filenames were introduced to windowses.
But in all except a very few cases, I don't need to know program names, such as they are in the filesystem, nor such as they are labeled. I can call them by any words put in the shortcuts (on either desktop, start menu, or any of the toolbars). A good MRU app can memorize the names I use for them (and under "good" I don't mean "your machine goes to take a leak while the system stops to index everything and re-cache icons"), and then it can run the software or open my frequently opened documents after I've opened the searchbox and typed no more than 4-5 characters, most often just two (http://www.launchy.net/ is what I'm talking about).
And, before I forget, the desktop icons. I don't have any on my machine, but on a couple of servers I visit regularly, and in my virtual machines, I have them. So far I haven't managed to get any version of windowses to permanently keep them where I left them. They don't have keep their positions true to the pixel, I'd just like them to keep their general layout - groupings, what goes in the middle, what goes to top right, that kind of thing. But no, m$ has not, from W95 until W7, mastered the skill of keeping the icons laid out. At least four times a year the icons wake up lined alphabetically along the left edge of the desktop. Since m$ (as the guy said in the blog) doesn't fix things, things get replaced with other things, the icons are now replaced with tiles. Problem isn't solved, it's replaced with a larger problem :).
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* prekjuče, preksutra is the day before yesterday, day after tomorrow; with prefix „nak“, it becomes two days. Translated it the best I knew how. Sorry about your language.
Mentions: eos40, Gorana Sredljević (Go), Jan Brenkelen, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Majkrosoft (m$), Nenad Berger (Neša), nokla, in serbian