The inverse gift registry
One of Van’s friends was asking where we were going to do the gift registry. Traditionally for Vietnamese weddings guests bring money in red envelopes as gifts to the new bride and groom.
After much thought, we’re not going to have a registry. We went through a list of everything we could need/want from a wedding registry, and came up with:
And that was it. We both have birthdays in June, long before the wedding, so I expect we’ll clean that list out in a hurry anyways.
In coming up with the list, we realized we have duplicates of everything from pizza cutters to coffee tables. So, we need a nice fair way to get rid of the duplicates - the reverse gift registry. We post a list of stuff we want to pass on, and people pick what they want/need. 1 choice per person to keep it fair for one round, and then open season. Time to code some php/mysql 
Announcement: We’re engaged!
I proposed this morning, and she said ‘yes’
’nuff said, we’re off to Ottawa now!
Day 3 of the Mac Mini Diary
I haven’t turned on my Linux based Laptop for 2.5 days now, and I don’t think I’ll need it while at the office anymore. I bought PocketMac Blackberry yesterday, so for the 1st time I’ve actually got my Addressbook/Calendar synced up with my Blackberry - I don’t run Windows on my desktop or laptop. Everything else is working fine - RDC/Citrix clients included.
So far, I’m quite happy with the Mini as a business desktop. Even with 256MB of Ram, it’s managing 10k iTunes tracks, and my several gig email accounts without breaking a sweat.
Mac Mini Arrived!
My order from Apple arrived this afternoon, much to my delight. I’d called the courier company on monday, and they said it hadn’t arrived in Canada yet, so it would be another 2-3 days. The shipping company Apple uses for Canada has no tracking capabilities until the package is in Canada - basically the last 24 hours of the trip.
Took me all of about 10 minutes to unbox, plug-in, boot up and starting using it - OSX w/iLife ‘05 is preinstalled, so the only questions it asks are your name/.Mac Account/Location one - everything else is ready to go.
While I ordered them with only 256MB of Ram, I haven’t noticed the need to use any more. The only time it seems to slow down is on my 10,000 track iTunes Library, which fills most of my Mini’s 54GB drive. I’ve got an 80GB external USB drive at home I’ll connect up eventually to hold most of that stuff, but for now it’s fully self contained.
The 2nd one is for my Mom, to replace her aging P2-300 that’s been her PC for nearly 3 years now (she inherited it from my Dad, and the CPU is actually from a system I had when I lived at home 6 years ago!). She’s never used a Mac, so it’ll be an interesting experience she’l looking forward to.
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