The age old debate of using a desktop or a laptop is in my psyche once again. I’ve been biased towards desktops for a long while. I remember going to Macworld when I was like 8 (although it was just for a brief instance-run in a grab a forgotten brick cell phone), and gawking at all the computers, most of which happened to be a desktop. They didn’t have laptops back then and the Apple computer we had, was a desktop. That is when my bias for desktops began.

I have been looking at macbook’s recently because I am constantly on the mac and haven’t turned my desktop rig on in several months. As I was talking to my alter ego last night/this morning, he said he was on his couch and typing; I said I was at my desk (wanting to be reading/working in the bed). I wouldn’t say it was envy, but more of a simplicity. I want to use my desktop, but I just don’t have any need to use it. I have all the programs I need on the mac. I guess the only thing I anticipate is when starcraft 2 comes out, probably the only reason I would/will keep the desktop.

I guess this will probably be the farewell post to my desktop. It was fun while it lasted and boy was it fun putting all the pieces together. May your quad core compute for many years to come.

A few days ago, I received a text from my mom. She had found a reference to her name online and was curious as to how to remove it because she didn’t want to suffer another go around with identity theft. I told her I would look into it and today I did just that. As she had found herself on google, I decided that was a good place to start (i’ll get to the other places that I have come across).

There are a ton of sites that aggregate personal information and then display it in a decent looking format. From google, I saw the link she was curious about and began there. It was a White Pages page containing everything about her, except for her social. Fortunately Whitepages made it easy to remove it by just clicking a remove button (which was hidden amongst offers to join their site). While on the white pages page, I noticed a link to MyLife. I decided to investigate that and boy, do they not make it easy to remove your information. I ended up sending a nice email to their privacy box (bet it goes straight to null, aka nowhere).

I have been fielding many requests for the story of how I proposed, so I will retell it on here so everyone can feast on the romanticism.

Back story-I asked her dad permission and brought both moms with me to pick out the ring.I already knew what she wanted, so it was mainly for them to hang out aka “mom talk”.

In starting out, I originally anticipated on new years eve or thereabouts, but wasn’t really sure of a date/time. I had anticipated going with the moms before x-mas and them telling me they wouldn’t be able to get the ring ready until after x-mas – “oh, it can be ready by tomorrow if you’d like”. Kel’s mom let me use her dad’s moms engagement ring (several generations old and pretty-I looked at it under the scope). That is when the pandemic of excitement started in my brain. This could happen soon…