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I’ve created a Google Custom Search which you can access at the bottom of the main page of this blog. It searches all of the parenting blogs that I know of by Objectivists or fellow-travellers. Right now, that includes my own blog, 3-Ring-Binder, Homeschooled Twins, Kim’s Play Place, Optional Values, Principled Parent, and Rational Jenn. Please make suggestions for additions, but, of course, I’ll be the final judge of what is included. Hopefully I can find a way to make it look prettier, too.
I’ve already found some good uses for the search. For example, when writing my last post on Positive Discipline I wanted to review what I had read earlier on these blogs, to remind myself of particulars and also to give due credit to those who assisted me in my thinking. You might be interested in what Objectivist parents have to say about attachment parenting, early potty training, or music lessons – this search should limit your search results better than a general Google search would.
In creating this search, I found Google is listing search results for my own blog in a strange way. For the most part, it is returning my categories, not my posts. I just created a robots.txt file based on some suggestions I found, but if anybody has any better ideas, please let me know.
Three Good Things for the day:
- Harry Binswanger is on Twitter.
- I added a couple of new features to The Little Things. I’m too tired to explain them now, but maybe you can have some fun searching for them.
- I think I mentioned that we bought Samantha a harmonica after her experience with a friend’s iPhone. She can actually make some nice noise with it, which is about all I can do myself. Adam is determined to learn how to play “Dixie” on it. This guy, though, is amazing. Skip to 2:30 for the best part – the William Tell Overture on harmonica! (Thanks for the tip, Chris!)
Three Good Things for the day:
- Man, it felt so good to write a long post about a serious subject.
- I figured out Feedburner, I think.
- I had a short but effective nap.
Feedburner is burning me! I’m hoping this post makes it to your reader. Anyone who subscribes has probably missed a couple of posts, so you might want to click over.
One thing that has been driving me crazy about my blog is that I had to go through a long process every time I wanted to upload an image. I had to use Internet Explorer to put the image in my “library,” and then I had to use Firefox to insert the image from the library to a post. Each browser would give me errors when trying to do the other part. Each image took about 3 minutes to create. I was hoping this upgrade would solve the problem, and it did! I plan to add many more photos to the site now. Here is one, just for fun. Samantha is putting caps from her paint pens on to her fingers. She puts any object with the right size hole onto her fingers. Caps are particularly fun because she can click them together like the long fingernails of an evil Disney witch.
Fingercaps
I’m about to upgrade my blog software and my theme. I have to do it during nap time or it will never get done. I have no idea if I’ve backed up properly, or what this will do to my blog. I’ve been reading and trying to prepare for this for about 3 weeks and, really, I just can’t figure out how to do it, so I’m just going to try it. In the middle of the day, no less. Sometimes you just have to say, WTF.
Update: Just a half hour later, I think I’m done. Let me know if you find any buggies.
I just added a nice feature to The Little Things. When you comment on a post, you’ll now see a check box marked, “
Three Good Things for the day:
- I got a handy tip from one of Samantha’s teachers at day care today: you can rip the sides of the pull-up diaper to take it off like a regular diaper. Do all moms but me already know about this trick?
- I finally got around to ordering prints of the best of our photos from the past 6 months or so. Now if only I can find the photo albums…
- Today I got the highest number of hits ever on this blog.
Is anybody else having trouble with gmail lately? I keep getting a pop up box titled Error which says:
Oops… a server error occurred and your email was not saved. (#103)
[or not sent, or whatever]
But then the email seems to have been saved, or sent, or whatever. I found a thread on Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Message-Delivery-en/browse_thread/thread/dd559ea4f36765db
But it doesn’t say much.
Three Good Things for the day:
- I went to a movie in the middle of the day! What a luxury. This whole Christmas season has reminded me what it means to relax and enjoy. (We saw Yes Man and it was pretty funny. Classic Jim Carrey.)
- We bought Samantha a harmonica after seeing her play on Kyle’s iPhone. And I thought the phone-as-harmonica was a joke.
- I was introduced to Tom Tom. Wicked cool.
It finally happened! Somebody found my blog by searching for “how to clean moss off of a sidewalk.”
I just added a link at the top of this page to photos of Sam on Shutterfly. I’ve only managed to upload her pictures through September or so. That’s when I switched to Picasa, and I haven’t quite figured out yet how I’ll share those in an organized way.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to the fastest and easiest way to manage and share photos?
As you can see, I’ve updated the design of this site using a theme I’m already starting to really love, called Tarski. It is simple, clean, and flexible. I haven’t had to modify any code yet, and I’m hoping I’ll never have to. Also, I’m looking foward to creating a banner using a cool graphics program I found called Gimp (via simplyamusingblog via Scribbit). I’ll be tweaking the design over the coming weeks, so please let me know if you find any bugs. Enjoy!
Speaking of private space exploration, a friend of mine worked on a satellite that is going up on a SpaceX rocket on Saturday, barring the usual possible delays. I don’t know anything about SpaceX except what I see on their web site, but it looks like they are one of the companies doing what NASA used to do: developing and launching new rockets and spacecraft.
You can watch a Webcast of the launch at http://www.spacex.com/. Right now the launch is scheduled for Saturday, August 2, between 4-8pm Pacific Time.
I couldn’t resist watching a previous launch. At about 4:20 into this video, you begin to see a sliver of black space beyond the earth that otherwise fills the screen. It made me realize how much I love Samantha’s current favorite word: “up.”
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