A mini-list on this last day of the year

[heidi]

Well, on the Jewish calendar, at least.

1. longtimegone and I were asquee this morning to see that the prices of external hard drives on Amazon were majorly reduced - we're both planning on ordering the 500GB Western Digital external hard drive for $124 (down from 300-something) - if you're interested in getting this or one of the others, if you could use the link below, then 4-6% will go to help FictionAlley on things like conference sponsorships.
Western Digital WDG1U5000 My Book Essential Edition 500 GB Hard Drive

It's so weird. I remember when the ZIP drive came out, and you could OMG WOW get 100 MB or even 250 MB of storage on this disky-cartridge thingy, and it was 200 for the drive, and each 100 MB disk was about twenty dollars. And isn't it amazing that a two second google search can get me a post from 1995 about the release of this major change to storage capabilities? Even as late as 2000, we were still thinking in terms of the YAY capacity of 100 MB. Now? I can walk into my local grocery and pick up a 2 gig jump drive for about seven dollars. Ten if I want it on a keychain. Woah.

In twelve years, how much storage capacity will we be able to get for two hundred and twenty dollars? What about for ten bucks?

2. Anita Roddick died - if her name sounds familiar, she founded The Body Shop back in the late 70s, and I was addicted to her store before Lush was ever invented. She was the first to bring organic materials, cruelty-free testing, Fair Trade and sustainable resources in terms of ingredients to cosmetics and skin care products on a large scale, and my gosh the stuff smelled wonderful! I've been to Body Shops in a dozen cities in the US, as well as in London, Mykonos, Dikili and Berlin. She changed the world of business, of cosmetics, of the way people think about beauty and community, and I'll miss her innovative thinking.

3. L'SHANA TOVA TIKATEIVU to all celebrating Rosh Hashana this week! May you have yummy apples dipped in stickygood honey, and a very sweet new year!
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4. And two fic recs!

Doctor Who - Doctor/Master, Doctor/Jack, sorta Doctor/Donna? by nostalgia_lj, here. Crack. Yay!

Heroes/Supernatural Crossover BigBoom fic by fictionalkatie which is entitled Five Powers Peter Used to Impress Sam Winchester and is (obviously) Peter/Sam. Gorgeous meshing of the 'verses, and wonderfully written. Excellent story!

5. And since I haven't seen it mentioned on my flist yet, Jon Stewart will be back to host the Oscars again this spring! YAY!

Comments

[musikologie.livejournal.com]

I was looking at the WD page on Amazon, because I think I'll be in danger of filling up my current HD soon, and my mind boggled to see that they're now selling 2TB drives. That's incredible. If you had told me even 5 years ago that anyone would possibly want that much storage, I would have laughed in your face.

[mijan.livejournal.com]

L'shanah tovah!

Mmm... apples and honey. (There are times when I'm quite grateful for having grown up with the traditions from both religions in my family. *grins*)

Before apples... need coffee.

[tobymalfoy.livejournal.com]

Interstingly, the US seems to lag a bit behind Germany in terms of the prices of 500GB harddrives. We hit the under-€100 range for that about half a year ago.

Anyway, my predictions for storage capacity in 12 years: for $220 you will get 20 terabytes and for $10 you will get 500GB. Hmmm... I may be way too conservative there. Make it double that.

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

Yay for Jon Stewart hosting!!!:) and oooo shiny on the external hard drives.

[smilie117.livejournal.com]

Hmmm - thanks for the heads up on the external - I'll have to read up on it later as I've been looking for a way to back up my dying desktop and this may be it.

:)

[misscake]

Happy New Year to you and yours!

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

Happy new year to you, darlin'!

Re: changes in technology

[redina]

we're both planning on ordering the 500GB Western Digital external hard drive for $124 (down from 300-something)

Hm, that's still a little bit high. They should be around $95-$110. Even that exact same model has fluctuated below $100. But hey, for folk who wish to help out FictionAlley, then it works out. :-) Good cause.

It's so weird. I remember when the ZIP drive came out, and you could OMG WOW get 100 MB or even 250 MB of storage on this disky-cartridge thingy,

I still have over a hundred of those disks... mostly collecting dust. I know I was excited about them back in the late 90s to early 2000. {g}

Dina

[trinity_clare]

I was reading too fast and I thought you said Andy Roddick for a second there. Phew.

[heybritney.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the storage capacity of drives and how much they've changed is still amazing.
I'd also think about getting two because, I mean, I always keep data on two different drives. But that's also because I keep most of my files on my external drive and basically none on my computer.

[simons-flower.livejournal.com]

At Best Buy (the toy store -- that you can tell your parents about -- for adults), I saw a 750 GB Western Digital drive. They were asking something like $350 for it. I just found it on Amazon for $280. My jaw dropped when I say that.

[judyserenity.livejournal.com]

Happy Belated New Year, Heidi!