HDD

Newegg's promotions for this weekend are quite something (link may expire). A 1TB HD for $150? If I was building a box I'd be all over that. Not that anyone necessarily needs that much storage space, but historic predictions of how much space is "enough for everyone" have consistently been premature. I'm surprised at how fast the cost of storage is dropping. Our family bought our first computer a little more than a decade ago, when hard drives cost $200/GB, and now it's more like $0.15/GB.

(Is that really a 60% per year decrease? 200e^(-12*0.6) = 0.15, so that seems correct... Wow. No, that's totally wrong. The yearly multiplier is e^(-0.6) = 0.55, so it's a 45% decrease per year. Still impressive.)

Back to School

As of Tuesday, I will be starting training at work. QPX School consists of 32 three-hour workshops, two per day for the next 16 workdays, starting at 9:30AM most days, sometimes a bit earlier. O_O

Hopefully I will come out of that a little less confused about my job, but I don't expect the next three weeks to be easy or pleasant. Am preparing to get beaten bloody by the two-by-four of knowledge.