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That is all. Posted via email from nicheplayer’s posterous

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From Christopher Oliphant in the comments to an iPad story in the WSJ: "Flash is a crash happy resource hog full of security holes. It is a horribly bloated and slow crutch for lazy developers. If I come across a flash based site it is skipped and YouTube's HTML 5 offers better performance, higher reliability [...]

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Enough of this hand wringing over the dispensation of one’s filthy lucre. On to more important, relevant matters….

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Question: Is it okay for one spouse to make a major, personal purchase (for an item worth more than $500) without consulting with the other spouse? (Keeping in mind that the spouses have separate checking/savings accounts and split the household bills fairly evenly between the two.) What do all of you blog readers think? Acceptable [...]

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Kevin and Rachel were in town over the weekend, and Kevin brought along his camera. Good thing, too, because it enabled him to take this shot of Ava goofing around in the tub.

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Today we took Ava out for her first ice skating adventure. I was astounded by how well she did. This is toward the end of our outing, when she circled the rink twice with almost no help from me at all.

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*sigh*

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I always knew there was something about that Fallon kid that I liked. I’m happy that I can now put my finger on it. If you need a reference for these lyrics/backstory, google “general larry platt.”

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Leah and her sister are the two most profoundly emetophobic people I know. Rachel also hates spiders. But I digress.

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from de- + sperare to hope*: Photo: 2010 Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui * For those of you who — like my wife — are wondering why this is here, please refer to the comments on this post.

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I love this card Ava made for her grandma. We often try to get Ava to make cards for family members for special events, with varying degrees of success. But I gave Ava some alone time the other day with her paper and markers, and this is what she came up with. Not too shabby, [...]

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Yes, Ava cut herself some new bangs this past weekend.

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I’ll just keep posting this stuff until either someone cries “uncle.” Video taken this morning of Emmett hanging out in one of his favorite spots: Note that he’d much rather stand outside the activity center like this than hang by his crotch inside it. And who could blame him…? I had to sneak up on [...]

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I know this is part of the gig, my beloved Ava, but I caught myself sitting at my desk just now, staring at a photograph (ok, ok, an “image”) of you, and feeling my heart ache for all the times you’ll be away from me. Sleepovers. Field trips. Dates. College. Conferences….

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Chalk. I came around the corner into the living room last evening to discover Emmett — who, only seconds before, had been sitting in the middle of the floor — standing at his sister’s blackboard easel. He had his hands on the chalk tray and a piece of chalk in each palm. I pried the [...]

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This video is fresh out of the camera today. I hope Emmett isn’t one of those kids who walks before he crawls. I hear they have all kinds of problems as a result.

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This is the first image in Ava’s 2010 set on flickr. It seems fitting to feature her here first in the new decade, since this blog wouldn’t be here without her. Leah, as you know by now, dislikes these photos of Ava where she’s sporting a pensive look. But I think it’s a perfect expression, [...]

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