Reverse Topping

It is the normal "old" thing to do, go on like one of the four Yorkshiremen about what it was like back then, how you could buy eight black jacks for a penny, a real penny at that, none of this nonsense that they call a penny nowadays.

The West Virginia Surf report blogger, Jeff Kay, struck a common thread with me the other day, he said that the USB drives were accumulating on his desk and he could not stop buying the things because they were so damn cheap.

They are, are they not?

The old thing to do would be to liken one of these twenty five dollar eight giggly bite USB vaults of useless silicon to a megla bite of valuable "random access memory" back in 1989 which was being grabbed by computer nuts everywhere for about a hundred bucks.

Only to be trumped by someone who paid three times that for one eighth of a megabyte back when they bought their XT and that was more expansion than the young Bill Gates rationalised at the time.

There's always an ace in the hole with the reverse top, a sort of backward victory where the gold medalist will eventually have paid everything for nothing.

Oh, no, thats life isn't it.......