Some great footage and pics Tom Bonython took of Av going off last Monday up on Coastalwatch…

Well, it’s more like the epic Winter of ‘08 if you consider how much good surf there’s been since May. But the run we’ve had this month has been amazing - literally a perfect swell every week, caused by deep lows sweeping off below Tasmania and throwing out long period swells, which by the time they reach here are trimmed to perfection by the stiff offshore winds. I was a bit bummed I didn’t get to go to Bali with Clint, Dan and Joel this week, but after this last session I’ve got no regrets…

Some recent pics of the boys on a typical evening…

2 1/2 million records and I bet he knows where ever single one is on the shelves…

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

A bit of a geek-out post, but I have to mark the milestone of buying my first Terabyte hard drive (1000 Gb). We’re producing a load of video at the moment for Emma’s aged care project and I figured it’d be easiest to store it all on one drive, so picked the 1Tb drive up off eBay for a bit over $300. That works out at 33 cents a Gigabyte - a bit more than the 20 cents per Gb you’d pay for blank DVDs, but with the added bonus of super-fast connections and massive file storage.

But, to put this occasion in perspective, way back in 1995 I bought a 1 Gigabyte (1000 Megabytes) drive for $1000, so unless my maths is wrong, the new drive is a staggering 4000 times cheaper if you take inflation into account. Insane!