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Ava’s first e-mail to me

map — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:38:22 +0000

Seems momentous. Of course, she’ll look back on this someday and think, “Gawd. E-mail?”

from ava palmberg
to palmberg@gmail.com
date Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:28 PM
subject daddy
mailed-by gmail.com
signed-by gmail.com
hide details 4:28 PM
LOVE YOU LOTS
LOVE AVA DADDY.

Fave quote of the day

map — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:03:38 +0000

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 and lower CPU utilization. Even Silverlight is superior to Flash.

Flash is dying and the existence of Flashblock and Clicktoflash and other flash blocking plugins shows that people are getting sick of the bloat and horrible performance. I run Clicktoflash and >95% of the time, flash is used for advertising, Java is used for menus.

The faster flash dies, the better."

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E-mail

map — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:41:51 +0000

My mom usually takes Ava to and from school during the week. Sometimes, when the two of them are at Gramary’s house in the afternoon, we get an electronic message from Ava. Like this one we received today:

She digs thje Zapf Dingbats, as you can plainly see. Also, please avoid paincones, if you’re able.

MERGED!

map — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:43:55 +0000

Fine, fine. Chalk up my failed experiment to hubris (Danny’s too good a person to say, “I told you so”), but I’ve merged anonymark and avablog into this blog now, which may or may not remain under its present name. anonymark has a redirect in effect, but you may as well delete that bookmark, if ya have it. Enjoy!

Hair apparent

map — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:27:10 +0000

Cynthia posted on her blog today about our mutual hair stylist Katie (and I’m using the royal “our” here; all my “styling” is done standing up in the laundry room with hair clippers). Katie’s great. Ava lights up for her like she does for few others. I had my videocam along this evening at the appointment so I could show you what Katie’s like:

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