flagrantdisregard

Archive for December, 2004

Mistakes  

Before I was a parent I wanted to make a permanent mark on the world. Now I just hope I can fix most of my mistakes.

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Caveat emptor  

I don’t mean to keep harping on MyPublisher just because I had a bad experience with them, but I was looking at their deluxe book product page and noticed something odd. Either the books are absolutely enormous or the girl in the photo is a pixie.
The page proclaims: “It’s New! It’s Huge! It’s Fabulous!” [...]

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On aging…  

So my wife was addressing a group of young girls (teenagers) in a ballet class to try and teach them how to not just dance but to perform their parts. That is, to act and display the emotions of the character they are dancing rather than just doing the steps. At one [...]

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Compliment from a comment spammer?  

I found several of these in my moderation queue tonight: “Very well made site.” From an anonymous comment spammer. Maybe a respectful nod from an adversary in the spam war acknowledging that I’ve won this round? Nah.

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Scrapbooking, part 3  

I’ve written two previous entries (Part 1, Part 2) about my experience creating a photo book with Shutterfly and MyPublisher. I chose Shutterfly for various reasons which you can read about in the previous posts and I’ve received the books. My review follows.

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