You all know that I’m off from uni right? Well today I wanted to go to Croydon, but my travel ran out yesterday. Knowing that I could save some money by not going until Monday (when I go back to uni) I still decided to go anyway. I bought a one month travel and then got on the tube. Just for the record, I didn’t have a clue how to get to Croydon by train or tube. Got off in Vauxhall looked around, couldn’t find a train going to Croydon, so I went to London waterloo. When I got there I still couldn’t find a train going to my destination. I ended up in Clapham junction and only to take a bus back home! When I got to home I realised that I could have taken one bus straight to Croydon; and save some money. Imagine that!

… if any of you know how to get to Croydon from sw2 (Tulse Hill or Brixton) can you tell me please. Much appreciated!

This is a lovely picture of when I went to spain for my birthday. I had a lovely time there.

Can’t wait to go back!

I’m originally from Jamaica. I lived there for about 14 years, and I enjoyed every minute of it!

That picture I posted is a picture of my back-yard. Beautiful isn’t it? I’m only joking, it’s not my back-yard, but you see my point. With such breathtaking sceneries and open space I sometime ask myself, why?

Nevertheless, I am now ‘fitting into’ the British life. I have lived in London for four years now, and I’m beginning to make sense of it now. That’s a far cry from what I use to say 4 years ago!

Four years! - That came as a bit of a shock - seems like it was yesterday I moved over here. A little skinny boy, hip-hop cloths - 10x my size, naive, and carefree! Nothing has changed really, only wearing tighter clothing now =).

The transition was oh so terrible. If you’re from another country - maybe the Caribbean – I think you know exactly what I mean.

It has been reported that by 2011 a single hard drive will be able to store up to 4TB (4 terabytes).

This is all thanks to the Japanese firm Hitachi. Hitachi has successfully shrunk the read-write head of a hard drive to that two thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair.

This is a new innovation in technology; with a 4TB capacity, a hard drive will be able to store over a million songs.

On a hard disk, data is stored digitally as tiny magnetised region, these are called bits. The closer the magnetised regions are packed on a disk is the more data that can be saved on that disk. As a result magnetised regions are packed ever closer, which means smaller read-write head are need to read the data.

At present a hard disk can store 200 GB (gigabits) of data per square inch, but Hitachi believes it can store up to 1 TB (terabit) of information per square inch.

Hitachi has discovered a way of reducing noise and boosting signal output when using GMR heads (a method in which to read more densely-packed disks) and so increasing the density of data on a disk than can be read even further.

“We changed the direction of the current and adjusted the materials to get good properties,” said John Best, chief technologist for Hitachi’s data-storage unit, in an interview with AP. “

“Hitachi continues to invest in deep research for the advancement of hard disk drives as we believe there is no other technology capable of providing the hard drive’s high-capacity, low-cost value for the foreseeable future,” said Hiroaki Odawara, Hitachi’s research director, at its Storage Technology Research Centre.

Hitachi hopes that by 2011 it could release a hard disk for desktops with 4TB of storage and a laptop with a 1TB drive.