4x 1.5TB’s might be the best idea when they drop in price a little. This then poses the problem that I have to get rid of 4x 500GB drives which have only een bought in the last 3 or so months… hmmmm

I was having a look at this one as well, although I’m thinking I might just get a sff htpc for it all - all the media stuff will be running through that one point anyway, so I might as well just store it all on there for the moment.

Now I’m just waiting for the savings to accrue and someone to announce one in the next couple of months that will do 1080p for around $500!

I’m reading Anthony Kiedis’s biography (Scar Tissue) at the moment, which is realyl good an engaging. Which is surprising, because for the most part it just about him taking drugs, playing music and sleeping with women over and over again. When you get past that though, there’s some really interesting stories and anecdotes about the popular music scene at that time in the US and the cycle of drug addiction.

I originally picked it up at Melbourne airport for something to read on the plane, and it was a choice between that and Slash’s biography. On the page I read Slash was going on about how his clothes got stolen at the start of a tour and he spent the rest of the tour wearing nothing but a pair of leather pants. I had the feeling I’d just end up disliking him if I read too much stuff like that, so I went with Scar Tissue instead…

I know have a list of books that is about ten long, will slowly get through then. I’ve been reading Shantaram for three weeks which is a bit of an epic (~900 pages in small-ish print). It’s been a great read so far though, part fiction, part non-fiction about a guy who escapes from a Melbourne prison and runs to India, and how his life leads on from there.

If you haven’t read it, it probably sounds like a run of the mill fugitive story, but its really not, I’ve found myself laughing, crying (somethign like that anyway), anxious and generally obsessed as to what is about to happen next. Seriously, he finds himself, living and working in a slum as a doctor and treating Cholera, then moves on to drug dealing, money laundering, passport forgery etc. Lots of ups and downs, powerful story and all that.

I got the Maddox book online from Amazon, as far as reads go, its very funny, but Tucker Max probably tells a better story, once you get over his pigheadedness

It does replace the need for another machine in the house for all the serer-ish tasks.

I will never touch anything made by tagan or raidsonic with a 10ft pole.