I was at my local Fry’s Electronics on Wednesday evening and am still surprised by the street level pricing of some components. I know it is not news to most people, and this is probably the “old fart” side of me showing, but 2TB hard drives for less than $180 and Patriot 128GB SSD for $350 is really quite amazing. I still remember the days…

Two weeks ago I picked up a 16GB USB drive no bigger than my thumb nail for $25. Last week I snagged two 32GB USB drives for $50 each. This week, a duo of Patriot TORQX 128GB SSDs at $350 each. The Patriot drives will go in my workstation in a RAID 0 configuration, replacing the dual 10K RPM drives it currently houses, which are also RAID 0. I am currently investigating a decent SSD for my IBM Thinkpad X61 to replace the 5400 RPM 160GB drive that it currently houses.

I am expecting both machines, once upgraded, to get eerily quiet and considerably faster.

Originally when I was investigating SSD drives I was leaning towards the rather pricey, at this time, Intel X-25 G2 128GB SSD drives, which are currently listed for $466 each. Including tax that would have driven the storage upgrade to over $1,000 for a pair of them in RAID 0 configuration.

It is time for a new operating system re-install anyway, as the current Vista operating system has been humming along quietly for two years now but it has begun to grow carbuncles what with all the software I install and uninstall on an almost weekly basis.

Windows 7 is available on my MSDN subscription so I thought, “why the hell not?” I’ll probably live to regret it but at least I can get to see what all the fuss is about.

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I know it sounds trivial to most people, I know I should “get a life.” But…

I have lost the lanyard that I wear around my neck to tether me to my SenseCam.

I am having difficulty adapting to a day without it hanging from my neck like some sort of technological military dog tag.

It feels “weird” knowing that the conversation I am having, or whatever physical act I am engaged in, is not actually being recorded to my digital memory store.

After two years of wearing this thing and having it with me every waking hour I am now at a bit of an emotional loss as to what to do with myself.

It feels like being separated from my laptop!

I don’t know how people can live like that.

Yes, I know, I need to get out more.

Someday I may actually take your advice and leave my girlfriend’s Mother’s basement and go out, see some of the world, interact with people, get a life, as it were.

Just as soon as I find my SenseCam lanyard so that I can record the event…

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Andy Ostroy at the Huffington Post writes about how he hates Facebook. Well Andy, you’re late to the party on that one, and trust me, nobody gives a damn about your 40-yr old pre-pubescent photographs. No, seriously, believe it or not, not one single person, not even the guy who found them.

*heavy sigh*

Lazy journos writing utter shite about things they don’t understand and never will.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-ostroy/i-hate-facebook_b_178867.html

Andy writes: “The site is overcrowded with attention-starved grown-ups essentially screaming "look at me… look at me!" all day long.”

And so is the Huffington Post press desk apparently.

Andy Ostroy, belonging to an exclusive club of 1 billion and growing, a membership which includes yours truly. Andy also belongs to the exclusive narcissist’s rant of the month club where you get to pick an obvious topic, such as “I hate Facebook” and write long-winded rants about it on a well trafficked “journalistic” website to get their own 15 minutes of fame.

May I get you a little more whine to go with your spam, sir?

Wait a minute, I think I just wrote a lazy blog post about a lazy journalist, does that mean the Universe will now implode?

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