Information: Digital and Printed

No it's not a comparison post. Today I had three great things happen.
First, I got my car back from the shop, and thus, my independence.
But that's not as important as the next two.

My Amazon shipment arrived! 3 new books for me to play with, although I've read parts of two of them before. They are all based around development and design.

• Refactoring: Improving the design of existing code (Martin Fowler)
• Refactoring to Patterns (Joshua Kerievsky)
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Gang of 4)

No doubt design patterns and refactoring will pop into my posts, and these books (along with others) may get a mention.

The third thing to mention is that I got a new hard drive. 400gb SATA drive, which is going into the very PC I am typing this post from. Why am I mentioning this? Only because I thought I'd mention that it brings my total disk space to 1.5 terrabytes of ACTUAL disk space (you know how a 400gb drive will present as having only 340gb available space... I'll look into this one day!).

Of that 1.5tb, I have used 1tb (thus the need for a new drive). How can someone use so much disk space? Well this PC has Media Centre. Last year I recorded the whole FIFA World Cup. I didn't trim out the pre-game coverage and post game analysis yet, so each game is around 8Gb (that's not counting the longer games that had extra time and penalties).

I guess if you have the disk space, you're going to use it.