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Our garden bees, photographed yesterday evening:
As you may have noticed, in painting our hives we've eschewed the standard hive whitewash in favor of pleasing pastels.
But we've got nothing on the hive art produced by other beekeepers on the web. Below the fold is a selection of my favorites…
Putting Open Source to the Mom Test
I stumbled across Amber's blog by accident today - she's writing a series of posts that document her experience installing and using Linux distros and a variety of open source applications.
I hope open source developers are following along as stay-at-home-mom…
Yesterday I outlined a few reasons to think that we may not actually forget all of our earliest memories; instead, they may merely be mislabeled due to a failure of source monitoring. According to a 2002 article by Drummey and Newcombe, a similar problem may underlie childhood amnesia - the…
Iraq - 3/20/2003 to 3/20/2007
3218 US soldiers dead and 23,417 US soldiers wounded (source)
123 UK soldiers killed (source)
116 journalists killed (source)
~60,000 civilians killed (source)
Number of Al-Quaeda operatives responsible for 9/11 caught in Iraq: ?
Youngest was totally geeked when I took him into a multi-mirror, see your back spot in a clothing store. I would love to see his reaction to that room. Even at two, I think it would be hilarious big fun.
He also really loved to look in a mirror while being held. He figured out that he was seeing an image of whoever was holding him, but didn't get that the image was him (or at least this is what we suspect, he wouldn't say). He would whip his head back and forth between the mirror, whoever had him and trying to figure out where that baby in the mirror was. This was a great way to get him to stop fussing almost instantly when he was upset.