1 January 2010

Recording some figures on the occasion of the new year. (all in local figures: Australia)

• Price of milk: $3.70/3 litre bottle.
• Price of loaf of bread: $1.90.
• Price of litre of petrol: $1.28.
• 1 share of stock in Google, the leading Internet company: US$620.00.
• Cost of 1 terabyte hard disk drive (which is considered large but rapidly becoming standard): about $200.
• Apple iMac is popular personal computer, runs as about 2.2 Gigahertz. 
  
• President: Barack Obama.
• VP: Joe Biden, Sec. of State: Hillary Clinton.
• Biggest events of the last year: General Motors files for bankruptcy; global financial crisis; Obama's inauguration; Black Friday bush fires in Victoria; Beijing Olympics; iPhone 3G... almost passed major health insurance reform in the US...