Monthly Archives: July 2011

If I had to do it all over again, which baby gear would I absolutely buy again?

Now that my younger child has turned one, we are find ourselves leaving the baby stage behind.  As all parents know, babies require an extraordinary amount of gear – clothing, strollers, sippy cups, bath toys, and thousands of other items … Continue reading

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Choosing to post family movies online with Vimeo instead of YouTube

My son just turned one a few weeks ago, and we are finishing up work on a movie assembled from photos and video taken during his first year.  We put together a similar one for my daughter after her first … Continue reading

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Map of the world’s submarine data cables highlight challenges of routing internet traffic

I came across a very interesting site today – http://www.cablemap.info.  It’s an overlay of the world’s submarine data transmission cables on top of google maps, allowing you to see how the world interconnects.  It appears to be the work of … Continue reading

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Debugging: Use Fiddler and WebProxy to debug HttpWebRequest / HttpWebResponse issues in ASP.NET

We recently found ourselves debugging code that was making web requests to another server.  If we hit the server manually in a web browser, it worked fine, but when we ran it through the code simulating the request using HttpWebRequest, … Continue reading

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Kids love super giant bubbles on a hot summer day

Everyone with kids knows the children are fascianted with bubbles.  You dip the wand into a bottle, and then with just a gentle blow from your lips, a colorful, shiny orb appears.  It gently floats in the air, until an … Continue reading

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