by Simon Woodside

Here's a little number I recently tossed off at the academy. It's about GEEK GRRLs and their best friends. Yes, it's terrible, I know. Last updated 2006-02-19.

Sung to the tune of "Diamonds are a girl's best friends".

Punched cards can have a tangible feel.
End to end they can stretch for miles.
But I prefer something more modern and real
that saves extensive files.

A disc in the hand may be stored against bad weather,
but inodes are a grrl's best friends.
A disc may be grand but it won't last forever
in your fireproof safe
those thin film layers will erase.
Media grow old and bits grow mold
and cosmic rays will get them in the end.
But web-hits and cache-hits
these nodes won't lose their bits:
inodes are a grrl's best friends.

... ext3 ... Reiser ...
Talk to me Dennis Ritchie, tell me all about it!

There may come a time when a grrl must have a DB
(but inodes are a grrl's best friends).
There may come a time when a despicable PHB
thinks you're oh so nice
but ditch that flat file or else no dice.
He's your guy when VCs are high
but beware when they start to descend.
It's then that those SELECTers go back to being hecklers:
inodes are a grrl's best friends.
inodes... inodes....
- I don't mean FILOs -
but inodes ... are a grrl's best friends!