Looking for something, which I obviously haven't found, I have cleared my office desk. I have found what follows:
- Several photocopies of my ID card, at different depths
- A stapler
- Several blank CDs. Two of them without anything written on them
- Reams of white or lightly written sheets of paper
- A leather-bound notepad
- 3 ballpens
- 4 floppies
- An ISDN cable
- Several versions, with annotations, of old research papers
- The LaTeX book
- half a dozen unstapled staples
- A pencil
- A map of Menorca
Clearing a desk is good. I'll definitely do it every year.