Debt-free!

[fivemack]

I have just paid off my student loan. Mine was the first year that had loans, at a highly uncommercial interest rate; I let the loan mature for four years while I did a PhD, and started paying it off at £125 a month in about June 2003. Now I can switch that standing order into savings, so that I never see the extra money to feel that it's there to be spent.

I think tombee, to whom I sold in the second year of my PhD the computer which I bought with my second undergraduate year's student loan, threw it away about three years ago; hardware dies, but debt endures.

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Speaking of dead hardware, remember this?

"Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the
world in 1982."

You have another version on a Web site.

What year are we up to now?

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I loved that site of yours for years and checked it occasionally, if only for confirmation that processor speed changes have really, really slowed down relatively recently. (Not to say that processors haven't become capable of faster computing, or that the same money doesn't buy you more processors on the same chip than it used to.)

Also: yay, fivemack!