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Archive for February, 2006

Another melancholy milestone: the two-wheeler  

She was on training wheels for all of a week. She became confident at riding and turning on her own very quickly. And now she has attained complete mastery of her bike, having recently gained the ability and confidence to stop and start on her own. I was overjoyed when she flashed [...]

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Feedburner Plugin for Wordpress 2.0  

I’ve written a new plugin that redirects the main feed and optionally the comments feed to Feedburner.com. Notable differences from similar plugins: It does this without the need to modify templates, setup new hidden feeds, modify .htaccess files, or asking users to migrate to a new feed. It works with IIS and [...]

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Site update: Feedburner  

I’ve just switched over the main feed for this site to Feedburner. Feedburner basically gives you readership numbers for a feed to complement traditional visit/pageview analysis. So far: wow. There are a lot more of you than I thought there were. Thank you for reading. You shouldn’t notice anything different [...]

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Tooth update: it’s loose  

Elation: palpable. Mention her loose tooth and she beams, she bounces.
I remember having loose teeth; but I don’t remember it being so gross. When she says, “Look, Dad!” and wiggles her tooth, my skin crawls. It’s been several days since she first noticed it and she constantly wiggles it or asks someone [...]

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Truths of parenting  

No matter how hard you try you will never convince a 3-year old boy that showing you the half-chewed food in his mouth is not funny.

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