I was surprised that my HTC phone uses the same quirky connector as my new Sony Reader. Now I find out it's a standard!

I bought my first PC compatible Epson Apex in 1991 with a 40 megabyte hard drive. I had so much data on it I was running Stacker to do real-time compression giving nearly 80 megabytes for DOS 4.01 and Windows 3.0. Floppy disks held 720 A few years later I bought a 300 megabyte drive for my Amiga A1200. I remember clearly costing £300, but being massive! Now I have a network server for mass storage with a two 2 terrabyte drives installed and room for seven more drives. I'll just buy them as I need them, as obviously prices plunge as fast as sizes increase.

I worked for 11 years writing payroll applications in a version of basic. It powered a significant number of payroll systems in the UK and probably accounts for most people's wage slips even today. Now I write web sites in ASP, running VBScript. BASIC lives and will always have a place.

Is the film going to make only profits that look like binary numbers? I still remember watching the original film as a kid. It was amazing. I also thought War Games was amazing, but I saw a sequel to that recently and groaned.

You never bought a film, you just bought a license to watch it. This is why you aren't allowed to play it in public places, prisons and schools. Nothing has changed, just the delivery medium and the fact you can't sell it on when you're done.

I decided to buy an old refurbished server last month, except the RAM I needed is so rare now it costs 4 times as much as the server. If I wanted to fit a graphics card, I'd have to pay over-the-odds to get one suitable. People replace old PC's when they break because new ones are cheaper and faster.

That's one of the most shocking news items I've read in a while! Thanks for posting.

I already have my own hosting though, and if I can't host it elsewhere I am effectively locked in.

That looks really good. It's a shame the install requirements are so non-windows based.

I work all day and every day to music. It blanks out the background noises like servers whirring, ducks quacking and planes on the bombing run. Luckily I work from home and am self-employed.

I have a phone watch. Very handy when I'm out and about not carrying a bulky mobile phone in my pocket.

If you change a PAL XBOX to NTSC it can output 1080i or 720p using component leads. It runs XBMC nicely, but can't handle hi-def video playback. A Pentium 3 just hasn't got the oomph.

I moved all my "user data" to a network drive and it only took a few hours to upgrade a sluggish 1.6 celeron laptop with 2GB ram from Vista pro 32bit to Windows 7 ultimate 32bit.

Like some distorted Moore's law, I usually buy a hard drive twice as large every two years. Maybe I should delete stuff? I get some joy from running drives on bog-standard SATA controllers and letting the OS handle the mirroring. At least if the controller fails I can build a new machine and can still read my data.