Monthly Archives: April 2008

I Feel Great! Again!

April 16, 2008 – 10:05 pm

I’m closing on my first house in two days, but no, I’m not going to write about something meaningful like that. Not tonight, anyhow. The thing that has compelled me more than any other to sit down and blog tonight is the discovery of a commercial. But not just any commercial. A commercial I already [...]

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Gas Station & The Flip

April 12, 2008 – 1:42 am

I got Steph a Flip video camera for Mother’s Day (yes, somewhat early) because I wanted to be sure we had something easily on hand to record all the little moments in life that don’t quite merit pulling out the HD behemoth, and many of those moments are soon arriving. Plus, now we can capture [...]

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Really?

April 8, 2008 – 1:17 pm

TweetClouds.com is a tool you can use to visually analyze the topics you talk about and words you use most on Twitter. I ran the tool on my tweets, and apparently I use the word “really” too much. Linguistic crutch alert!

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Caleb’s First Words

April 6, 2008 – 9:21 pm

A few weeks ago, Caleb said what we consider to be his first word. It’s a bit of a cheat, since it wasn’t exactly correct in definition or pronunciation, but I’m willing to count it. The word was, “mamamamamamamama…” and he says it whenever he is distressed, upset, or uncomfortable. We think [...]

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Upgrading to WordPress: the Good, the Blog, and the Ugly

April 6, 2008 – 1:45 am

WordPress 2.5 was released about a week ago, and it looked absolutely delicious to me. Seriously, I salivated. I was using Movable Type at the time, but it was extremely old (Perhaps four or five years old! Software! Web software!) because I had neglected to upgrade it. I should also point out that, having worked [...]

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