This year I'm doing most of my Christmas shopping online. For my mom I bought.. no, I can't say that here. But she knows already because I told her not to buy it. This year's Christmas shopping cost me around $500 for my immediate family.
I decided to buy myself a little present too. Today I bought an HP iPaq 4350 PDA. It's got a built in keyboard, 802.11b and bluetooth. I have an older HP PDA but find without network access I don't use it as much as I could be. This new one costs $630 CAN + taxes new but I bought it for $315 CAN on ebay. Hopefully in the new year I'll be writing programs for it.
I also put up my old Christmas tree handed down to me from my grandparents. It's about 4 feet tall, 20 years old, and has no decorations at all! It's in my living room waiting to be decorated. I think I left the decorations for it at dad's house and he's probably got it on his tree now. I don't think I'll really do much christmasy stuff at my house.. or if I do it won't be until next year.
Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
