Disk space 
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that we seem to be slightly outpacing disk drive capacity with our voracious hunger for disk space? First it was jpegs, then it was mp3s, now its videos. Will we ever figure out a way to keep from filling all available disk space?
PostgreSQL
I also have been looking into PostgreSQL. Now the question is, what do they mean by an object relational database. I guess I'll find out.
XQuery rears it's head
Due to requirements at work, I've had to take a look at the XQuery W3C draft. What I'm discovering is that it is evolving slower than I had expected. It also seems to be something different from what I had thought it was. It is a way of encoding SQL-like queries that are to be applied to a stream of XML formatted data. The part I hadn't understood is the part about the data being queried being XML data. That should have been obvious but it took until today to sink in.
