November 24, 2010 | Awake & Dreaming

Back in December 2006, I got my first pc – an HCL system with a Pentium 100 processor (I think), who know how little RAM and about 650 MB of hard disk space. No, I am not kidding, it was 650 MB of space. Save a few mp3s, wallpapers and you’re done. That was 14 years ago. How the times have changed?

About 15 months later I got a 2GB hard drive. That seemed like a big deal for me at the time. I got quite a few freeware games and mp3s. By 2000 that was history (meaning I had a hard drive crash) and then waited a while to get a 20GB hard drive. Wow, lots of space, rite? Not really! By 2003 my system died and so did the hard disk. I was PC-less from Mid 2003 till September 2006.

Bang! I bought a new assembled pc with an 80GB hard drive. Alright, now we’re talking. Lots more space! By 2008 that drive was feeling claustrophobic and so in May of that year I bought me a Western Digital external hard drive with a 160 GB capacity. Cool! Plenty of space for lots more mp3s and lots of videos. That was good while it lasted but I’m sure that I would need more. However it took me till February of this year to branch out – got me a 320 GB hdd from Transcend. Ah, that’s more like it! Lots more drive space. I can use the WD mainly for mp3s and split my tv series & movies between that and the 320 mainly.

I sold my desktop in June and now have a laptop with a 320 GB hard drive but I don’t like saving all the video files in it. I’ve almost filled the 320 GB external drive as of today. Time for bigger artillery. I’m going to go for the 1TB from Western Digital. That will give me lots of space and more to save my files and download even more. Cause I’m downloading a lot and I want even lots more.

I just read in the papers (and then later online) that the album that John Lennon signed for Mark David Chapman hours before he killed the former Beatle is on sale for £530,000. The copy of 1980’s Double Fantasy‘was signed by Lennon as he left his home on December 8, 1980. He was then murdered by Chapman when he returned five hours later. It has Lennon’s signature on the cover and Chapman’s forensically enhanced finger prints on the sleeve.

Now why would anyone want that copy of the album? As a memorabilia item? Figuratively speaking it has the blood of Lennon and the imprint of Chapman, his killer, all over it. Why would a true fan even want to touch it? I do not think that it’s something to buy out of respect to Lennon, a great musical artist and songwriter.

After Chapman killed Lennon, a maintenance man found the autographed album at the entrance to the Dakota, where Lennon lived. He then handed it over to Police as evidence. Currently serving a life sentence, Chapman was recently denied parole for a sixth time.

Good! I hope the bastard never gets it!