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Two Years from Now

I’m going to level with you. I’m worried. A friend from work showed me this video of young Hannah at age two if we don’t sell our condo and have to end up renting it out…

Icon-Carrying Member of the Household

Colin is now a full-fledged member of the Avatar-enabled community. Not that he’ll need this before it needs to be updated, but there is (suddenly) a requirement to have an Icon in this household…

Also, if you’re curious about how well the great folks over at Iconize Me did (we’ve talked about them before), you can see the original picture of Colin we uploaded for them to use here.

Of course the other big issue is how we’ll get a workable icon from the ultrasound pictures of Hannah (that presumably Deb will be posting shortly)…

Pressing Issues

1. Determining that, yes, indeed. Captain Crunch is still my favorite sugar cereal. Ever since I first had it over at the McHugh’s a thousand years ago. Eatin’ some now. Mmmmmmmm.

2. Figuring out how to spend the $100 Apple store credit I got for being an early adopter/purchaser of the iPhone 2 months before they reduced the price by $200.

(For those keeping score at home, yes, that means I’m still down $150 on the phone. $100 for the price difference and another $50 for paying the college kid to wait in line for it. On the plus side—and we weren’t sure this was going to be the case—I did get the rebate. We wondered if the college kid would get that, too, since he has the original receipt…)

Top 2 Reasons I Don’t Have an iPhone

Everyone seems to be all a-twitter about Apple’s new iPhone. Now I am not one for techno-lust (yeah, right), so I have a very well principled Top 2 listing of why I do not have an iPhone.

1. The AT&T Store on Washington Street in Hoboken didn’t have one.
2. The AT&T Store in Jersey City’s Newport Center mall didn’t have one either.

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UPDATE: Nevermind. I have one now.
UPDATE #2: Was taught how to spell by brother-in-law (see comments).

As You Can See

I am currently in the middle of what amounts to a fairly major overhaul of ellsworthlink.net and there is a lot of stuff just piling up, especially on the right-hand side of the blog page… Lots of reasons for the changes: a badly needed upgrade to the blogging software—WordPress—to which I was at least 3 or 4 “point” versions behind (1.5 vs the current 2.2), the need to move from a really crappy ISP to a much better one, as well as a desire to experiment more with Web 2.0 technologies.

In any case, it isn’t going to stay this way. There will hopefully be significantly more functionality once things settle down, but not so much more that you can’t find your way around.

You also probably noticed that you did not get an email alert about this post. That functionality also broke with the site migration from IMHosted to HostGator. I’ve still got a list of who was on the updates before and I will send you all a note about how to “re-up” your subscription. And if you were annoyed by the emails, this will be a good time to not bother renewing. Or, if you’re a bigger geek than me, you may be subscribed to the RSS feed and reading it from your newsreader. (I’ve only just subscribed to the RSS feed as a part of this whole migration/upgrade exercise.)

Note to Self

Google is no longer a naughty word in the Hobokenite Ellsworth household.

Just sayin’…

The Video Version

In keeping with how much we are enjoying and using our phat new camera, we are doing lots of video recording. And, in trying to keep up with how much certain people are asking us for new pictures, I’ve been collecting lots of stuff to post I just haven’t had time to do it. (If you think Colin is busy, you should see his poor parents!)

Anyway, this video features:

• Colin saying two different 3-syllable words
• Colin demonstrating his almost incalculable intelligence by pointing out a difficult shape (after being prompted by his mother)
• Expert usage of a computer keyboard
• A very redneck-sounding laugh-track

Extra! Extra! Read All About It

Well, actually, that’s the question. How do you read your news? In the last week or so there have been some interesting pieces of news/opinion that have come out in the media world that prompt my curiosity.

One is an opinion piece from AdAge magazine envisioning a world in which Dow Jones folds the print version of The Wall Street Journal in favor of an online-only edition.

The second is an article from Mediapost announcing topline findings from a recent Pew Research Center for The People & The Press survey that basically states that the web is still a secondary medium for news.

One article seems to contradict the other—although, admittedly, the AdAge article doesn’t give a specific timeline of this imagined conversion to Online-only and the Pew Research study shows an unmistakeable flight to the web from “traditional media”…

In any event, back to the question: how do you get your news?