# An early farewell to optical media **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 29, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-early-farewell-to-optical-media/66841 "2006-08-29T18:51:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-early-farewell-to-optical-media/66841/1 "2006-08-29T18:51:54Z")
Since it seems like such a slow day, I wrote a little piece on optical media if anyone’s interested: [http://weblands.blogspot.com/](http://weblands.blogspot.com/). Anyway, no big deal, just thought some of you might be interested, esspecially the graph (which turned out to be much more difficult to create than I thought it would be). T. ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-early-farewell-to-optical-media/66841/2 "2006-08-29T19:15:59Z")
Cool! I recall going to the first CD-ROM conference, put on by M$. At the time, 600 MB seemed HUGE. ## -r [http://www.cfcl.com/rdm](http://www.cfcl.com/rdm) Rich M. [http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume](http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog](http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog) +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-early-farewell-to-optical-media/66841/3 "2006-08-29T19:28:01Z")
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:50:30AM +0900, Trans wrote: > Since it seems like such a slow day, I wrote a little piece on optical > media if anyone’s interested: [http://weblands.blogspot.com/](http://weblands.blogspot.com/). Anyway, no > big deal, just thought some of you might be interested, esspecially the > graph (which turned out to be much more difficult to create than I > thought it would be). Excellent! That’s a great write-up of the state of evolving technology in the area of portable storage media, brief and thoroughly plausible. Only one problem: the first word in the last paragraph is a typo. That should be “It” instead of “In”, I think. Not to nitpick, or anything . . . I just want it to be perfect, since I’ll be directing others to it in the near future. ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-early-farewell-to-optical-media/66841/4 "2006-08-29T20:36:16Z")
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 03:30:34AM +0900, Trans wrote: > > in the area of portable storage media, brief and thoroughly plausible. > > Only one problem: the first word in the last paragraph is a typo. That > > should be “It” instead of “In”, I think. > > > > Not to nitpick, or anything . . . I just want it to be perfect, since > > I’ll be directing others to it in the near future. > > That sentence was a bit off in a couple of ways. But all better now. > Thanks! Yeah, I was going to send a second email indicating the other two problems I noticed and forgot to mention, but you beat me to it. Ahh, the dangers of multitasking. ---
**Author:** ![Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@Trans](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Trans)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/an-early-farewell-to-optical-media/66841/5 "2006-08-29T20:32:16Z")
Chad P. wrote: > should be “It” instead of “In”, I think. > > Not to nitpick, or anything . . . I just want it to be perfect, since > I’ll be directing others to it in the near future. That sentence was a bit off in a couple of ways. But all better now. Thanks! T.