We took off Ellie's training wheels a couple of weekends ago but didn't really get much practice time.
So yesterday we went out to practice. Ellie was pretty nervous and she wanted me to run next to her in the beginning. Then it just clicked and she got it. I'm glad I had my camcorder.
She was on cloud 9. We were so proud. Sophia and James were cheering for her too.
We were all getting a kick out of James latest discovery last night.
James starting walking on his own the last few days. He's wobbly and falls down plenty but his determination is winning.
Great to see as a parent but I think we are in trouble now :)
I took this clip yesterday. Ellie (our 2nd) is in the background cheering him on with me.
We had a little party tonight at our house with Sophia & Ellie's friends and a few parents. I counted 10 kids.
They practiced a few tunes at our house than went caroling around the neighborhood.
Here's the video.
Our little one has started to crawl this week.
My mom came up from NY this weekend. It was great to see Grandma and the kids were spoiled as ususal. So were we. Lauren and I went out last night for dinner. Before dinner we had drinks at a new place in Beacon Hill called Bin 26. Great place. Then we met up with Brian and Judy for dinner at The Blue Room in Cambridge.
After brunch today we took everyone bowling. Loads of fun. Ellie won with an 8 on the last set beating out sophia by 1. Lauren and I came in last place (pathetic but true). Video of Sophia and Ellie below and photos here.
This summer I migrated all of my digital photos to Flickr. Previously I hosted my photos on my servers using Gallery. Gallery is fine but didn't have the social/community features that I wanted so I made the move to Flickr. The migration took several months since Flickr limits uploads to 2GB/month even for the pro account.
I now have 4,400 photo's on Flickr.
With the help of Keyword Assistant I have tagged approx 86% of my photos. I can't wait until it's 100%. Tags rule. My daughter Ellie recently turned 5 and it was so nice to have her pictures available with a click. I easily grabbed all of the photos tagged "Ellie" and made a cool slide show that I had running on the macmini connected to our TVs during her party (geeky dad). Flickr doesn't do full screen slide show so I used Photocastr (developed by my friends Stuart Roseman and Jason Yanowitz) to get the high res pix from Flickr onto the Mini. Sweet.
Having tasted the benefits of my tagged photos, I now want all of my home videos tagged up too. I don't know where to start but I'm going to figure it out.
I'm guessing most consumers don't want to spend the time tagging all of their photos and videos.
We need an auto tagging system for video and photos that support existing apps (iphoto, imovie, moviemaker, picassa, photoshop etc) and existing web services (flickr, photobucket, fotki, youtube, veoh, etc). Riya tried to do photo autotagging but they wanted to replace stuff that we all use already with a new service. That's really hard. I think this quote from Munjal's blog is spot on:
"We had realized that there was one major thing different about Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0. In 1.0 no one had anything on the web so if you had a new service people would just use it. In 2.0 most people have something they already use on the web to do the task. So if you have something better (even if it is a lot better) you also have to have the key features they used from their 1.0 site before they would shift to you. Web 2.0 has a lower cost to awareness (due mostly to blogging), but switching costs are considerably higher (at least for photos). This was a big insight for us."
This new research from Penn State looks promising. I'm going to spend time checking it out.
Having fun with James at a local cafe this afternoon. This guy loves playing with straws.
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