We've met with the caterers and discussed exactly what we want -- which included the news that they do a hand-made tiramisu. On the whole they seem very professional and prepared for all eventualities, including being prepared for torrential rain in mid-July.

We've finally sent out the invitations after a long weekend of cutting, folding and glueing. Making a final list of people to invite, and what part of the day to invite them to, sounded easy but turned into a hellish task we avoided very quickly. If we invite only our family -- parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins -- we'd have over 100 people already where the registry office can only seat 75... Adding to this other relations and of course friends, and still fitting, has been quite a challenge.

We've even booked our flights to Italy for the honeymoon. Hopefully the hotel will confirm our booking in the next few days and then we're all done for the honeymoon at least.

NP: Shine, by Aswad. Gotta love mid-90s pop-reggae!

Get them at the usual place in the experimental distribution. You'll need udev 0.014 from Marco d'Itri of course.

[Apologies to The Fast Show]

Carter is an exciting 1920s story about a magician, the death of the President, the invention of television and personal tragedy. Overall this is a good fun book, which kept me from blogging as I read it on the train.

Strange Places is a very interesting read. It is basically an account of John Simpson's work (a BBC journalist) over the last 30 or so years. The range of people he has met is amazing, but also the personal details of the people are very interesting. At times he comes over as a little pompous, but on the whole he is very down-to-earth and manages to retain the legendary BBC impartiality. Overall an interesting book offering a rare personal view of the world's politicians and leaders, which often meant I was reading until my bath water turned cold.

Last Chance is the classic Douglas Adams doing his great "comedy sci-fi author travels around world, looks confused" act. This time he is traveling with Mark Carwardine, trying to find a range of endangered species. DNA's writing matches the standards set by Hitch-Hikers, and often led to me trying to control my laughter on the train. Overall a enjoyable and enlightening read about the state of the world and the destruction we seem to inflict wherever we go.