That's all assuming I don't have to stay back at work again... but that's looking pretty good so far. Should be able to make it out by 6.
Hard Disks continue to get bigger. I'm getting a new computer soon and it's going to have two 80Gb hard drives in it. One for video/audio record, the other for data, software and operating system. The band plan to use it for recording our demos on... but we need a preamp. The new soundcard (Maudio Audiophile 2in2out) doesn't have one.
Gordon Bell, a computer industry legend, imagines wearable devices that hold everything we've ever seen, heard and said. I'm not crazy about that vision, but when disks hold a thousand times more than they do today, your entire life will fit -- plus more books, songs and movies than you could use in a thousand lifetimes. Yikes.
These people should read David Brin's Earth.
The article rants on about hard-disks in everything, like your car or video camera or sunglasses or shoes, but not once is the terror of the hard-disk ever mentioned... the crash.
I remember talking about using harddisks for video and audio way before the idea was actually possible, back when I had an IBM XT with a 10mb hard drive and the idea of storing anything that was actually important semi-permanently on a harddisk was a joke. I still have that fear... that one day everything I've put effort into (my band's music, my photos, my websites, my email, my video, my music collection) will all just disappear thanks to a crashed hard drive.
It's happened before... I'm hanging for the storage media that's solid as a rock, lasts at least 1000 years and stores terrabytes of data.
If anyone says "paper" I'll friggin slap 'em.