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Heh—yes! But I fear that other people’s care factor may not be so high.

Hooray!  Congratulations!  I feel as though we should break a bottle of champagne over the bow or something.

I’m so glad you got to holiday and chill out and especially that you got to have that yummy high tea!

Also...I tagged you in the meme on my blog. 

Hee hee!

Have you seen the problem with Google maps?

Ooh...I recognise that cake! You got it from The Sweet Spot That explains the cake I saw Ben eating…

Your mum preaches with Guan-ness ;P

Hmph. As if I preached with Guan-ness.

Ooh...I wonder who talked to you at Unichurch

Did you take a picture of what you wore to the wedding? Would like to see it

I saw The Red Tree here on Monday night and thought pretty much the same thing - and that I now want to go read the book with a magnifying glass because those close-ups on the huge screen were amazing.

No, I haven’t! I’ll look out for it.

Not to downplay your hard work and excellent knitting but, even though those are beautiful hats, my favourite thing about this post is the title

Have you read Batman: Black and White? If not, I recommend it.

Happy Birthday! Belated, but very happy!

I’m so glad you could find an affordable copy of Persepolis. I’m not actually sure who has mine at the moment.

Golly, the first two picture made me think, “What is that?? Pizza??”. Then I read the post.

Thanks!

It looks absolutely gorgeous, K!

Hmmm...that lamb looked good. Wouldn’t mind some of that right now…

toggles was the best I could come up with too, after some googling. Some people call them wooden toggle buttons. here are a few options.

Thanks! (Really? They’re just called “toggles”???)

Toggles.

It looks good!

Oooh...that rice cooker looks good and I think $90 is reasonable. A lot of the imported rice cookers from Asia (e.g. Tiger, National, Panasonic) cost $100+.

even though things are tough, it’s good to see that you’re appreciating the positives that are in your life.

i didn’t know there were cockroaches in that machine… there are none in *my* coffee machine (though I might go home and check).

hang in there.

I’m sorry to hear things are rough at the moment! Hope you get plenty of support down there.

The exhibition looks amazing. Wish I could have ducked down to see it

Heheheh ... can’t promise anything but I’m definitely keen on photos!

Ahah - another use for scarves. Thief-deflectors!

I like that Neil likes arguing with Zipes. It just sounds collegiate, somehow. Also, if you want to know what they argued about I *think* it was about bad children’s books. There is a link to a mention of it somewhere in the May Aus Specfic carnival on my blog.

I wonder if you could do a video of dragonballs unfurling to Lovecraft read in sepulchral tones.

Thanks for the link, Kathleen!

Great quote re: work hard and play hard.

Oh, and see what I just saw on another blog: http://mattiasa.blogspot.com/2008/05/modofly.html
(Mattias has some great art).

I want to engrave a moleskine, but can’t decide what with.

Am in the process of so doing. Next up, Neil. But he might be delayed by the blog carnival which is eating time!

RE CBCA: You could just give me the gist of it.

<cite>Northanger</cite> is pretty good! Mr Tilney is quite divine

Hang on. What? There’s a Northanger Abbey? Of course, there would be, but I’ve managed to be ignorant of its existence. Worth watching?

Missed free comics day (one day!) but made it to parts of the CBCA convention. Took notes, will post. Or possibly scan if I can’t face typing them up

The thing about the shared email account is that its about 5 minutes work and you never need to think about it again.  At least that was the theory.  In practice it has been a little annoying, as I need to remember to change the from email address when I want people to reply to us both, and bcc Larissa, so she knows what I sent.  However I work on the principle that as the tech savvy one, i should be doing what I can to make things easier for the less technically inclined accquantiences that I have.  I guess the queston really comes down to, will it be more hassel to get them to change the email address they send to for you (keeping in mind that they will reply to your emails too) than it would be to just deal with them sending to only one of you.  I would guess that it might not be worht the hassle....

Internet on mobiles is improving in leaps and bounds, particularly with devices like the iPhone coming out.  Wait another year and you may have what you need…

Yes, I find that internet on my mobile is not worth it: too slow, screen too small, etc. And I hate my mobile: it can’t keep up with me! ;P

Do you really think it’s worth setting up a shared email account for both Ben and I for people who can’t work out how to email us both? To me, it seems unnecessary, whereas for you two, it’s happening at the beginning of the marriage so you’re training people up to treat you guys that way electronically.

Wow, I must say I’m impressed. 

A few things you might find worth looking at.

RE: Email addresses.
Larissa and I have kept our individual email addresses, but we also set up a shared gmail account.  This account can be configured with filters to forward a copy of all emails to our standard addresses.  This means that we can give that address to people who are unlikely to want to email just one of us, and there will be no confusion.  Gmail can also be configured to let you send from that account (possibly even through you mail client...)

I’ve actually been so impressed with gmail that I use it as my primary email storage now days, and I can usually find what I want by just searching, so much so I haven’t needed or missed folders there.

Also, with vista you can actually have google desktop search index off line all your gmail emails, which is helpful.

RE: calenders,

Google calender I believe can be accessed via cellphone, if you have a net-enabled cell.  This should allow you to create events directly on the calender on the fly, and would automatically update your partners calender, if they were also accessing it via a cell phone or computer.  But I haven’t tried this

...it feels like I’m falling.

Well, I’d say he was in his early to mid-thirties so possibly, if that’s what you mean by “young”!