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Nothing personal, former Facebook friends: I’ll miss those wall updates about doing dishes and changing the kitty litter… But most of all, I will miss those hundreds upon hundreds of baby pictures that remind me daily of how insanely happy I am that my kids aren’t babies any more.

›› Absolutely hilarious piece by Steve Tuttle at Newsweek

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  • baby, facebook, photos, social networking, time, waste

 

A team from a non-profit design group poring over a 1986 Toyota 4Runner to use in building an incubator [Image from the International Herald Tribune]

An excellent read on the IHT about how an incubator for newborns was built out of new or used car parts for use in developing countries.

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  • baby, car, developing countries, engineering, health, organic resourcing, poverty

 

That’s Eliza, sussing out her new environment
Please pardon the radio silence over the last couple of days because I was busy becoming/being a rookie dad to a baby girl called Eliza.

Baby and Wife are now safely home after a couple of days in hospital. It’s been great fun so far but a lot of hard work, too. One may be adept with Photoshop shortcut keys and dexterous with CSS shorthand selectors but I am fast finding out that there is no easy way out with this parenting thing.

And yeah, there is no Command-Z (or Control-Z) for things like midnight tantrums and unexpected bowel movements during nappy changes either.

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  • baby, father, girl, infant, newborn, parent, rookie

 

A-Z Animal Flashcard Set, illustrated by Mark Fisher

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