Today, I came to the con­clu­sion that a blank DVD is not big enough for the back­ups I like to do.

Then, I took a step back from that thought and said to myself WTF?!  I grew up in the days when mass stor­age was a shoe­box of 5.25″ flop­pies that hold a whop­ping 180K of space on each disk (single-sided, low den­sity).  [By com­par­i­son, a 40 page tech­ni­cal spec I wrote for work in MS-Word would span about 3 or 4 of those flop­pies.] I backed up such a shoe­box to CD a few weeks ago and was pissed off that I was wast­ing 90% of the space on the disc with empty space.  How the heck can a blank 5 gig disc be “not enough?!”  Now, I can pay $14.95 (plus tax, which is now zero for me) and get 25 gigs in the size of 2.5 CD jewel cases (they come in those lit­tle half-cases) and it is not enough.

I think I am going to have to put blank DVDs on my Holy Shit List.  (“What's a Holy Shit List?”).  I think I will also have to final­ize a rough work­ing ver­sion of my Holy Shit List and post it somewhere.

And hey, at what point did soci­ety start using “disc” instead of “disk?”

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