Today, in a fit of the kind of self-referentially ironic vanity that can only truly be mastered by those of us born on the cusp of Generations X and Y, I set up my Windows 2000 machine at work so that in the sidebar of the My Documents folder would appear an image from my webcam.

At the time, I thought “This is quite neat. I guess it's one thing I can do in Windows that I can't in OS X.”

After finishing the folder customisation, I closed the window, and called over a cow orker to show it off to. “Look at this!” I said, opening Windows Explorer. I was met with the most incredible expression of un-impressedness. Then again, even if Explorer had done what I'd asked it to, I doubt I would have got a different expression.

My careful folder customisation had been clobbered back to the default. I poked it a few times, but stubbornly, it stuck to the Microsoft party line that this was a folder for in which to store documents, not a rather nice view of Sydney Harbour.

They're not really My Documents, you see. They're Bill's.