My brother loves me.

How else could you explain the lovely birthday present that he gave me yesterday?

I’ve placed my order already to the Apple Store for:

• Airport Extreme Wireless Hub (802.11N)
• HDMI to DVI cable
• DVI to RCA Video cable

The last two are essential because the AppleTV does not ship with any cables to connect the device to your TV.  Even if it did, the TV I’m going to hook up first is the one in the “playroom” for Jacob, which doesn’t have HDMI or Component inputs.  It’s a *gasp* regular, analog television.

There are some exciting hacks already online on how to put a larger hard drive into the AppleTV, install a terminal server, and add support for other codecs like XViD.

I’m obviously very excited to get it up and running.  So…

Thank you, Daniel.  I love you, too.