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Archive for January, 2007

Dear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member  

In my mailbox today:

Dear Old Skool Account-Holding Flickr Member,
On March 15th we’ll be discontinuing the old email-based Flickr sign in system. From that point on, everyone will have to use a Yahoo! ID to sign in to Flickr.
We’re making this change now to simplify the sign in process in advance of several large projects [...]

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Old memories  

We just finished cleaning out my office today* and in the process found, remembered, laughed about, conquered, and parted with 20 years worth of memorabilia that we’ve come to realize doesn’t mean as much to us today as it once did. Ancient, embarrassing love letters; old photographs; 80s year books; high school and college notebooks.
Lots [...]

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Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids  

The Lovely and Talented Wife was browsing through iTunes today to find some audiobooks for the kids to listen to and she came across a great site called Storynory.com. They add a new story each week and podcast them so it’s easy to keep current. I listened to Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of the more recent additions [...]

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Skype brings out the 6-year-old girl in me  

Lovely and talented wife: You guys are ridiculous.
Me: Come again?
Wife: Every time you Skype, you guys spend the first 5 minutes talking about the echo.
Me: No.
Wife: You do! The echo is worse. The echo is better. Even when there’s no echo you talk about how the echo was the last time you talked.
Me: Seriously?
Wife: I [...]

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Afternoon stroll  

Walking with their aunt on New Year’s Eve.

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