Hilarious article - One Week Later, I’m Still Coping - on the Dimmer Switch about a dad purchasing a Bratz doll for his daughter…

Great post about climbing mountains–literally and figuratively–from SteveL at Dad Bloggers.

A thoughtful post by a mother about hand drawn pictures her daughters made for the soliders in Iraq…

Toddling twins’ milestones through their father’s eyes…

If you are like us, magazines pile up quickly. There’s always one article you really like or think you’ll like so you end up keeping the whole issue. Multiple that by every magazine your household receives and there’s no wonder that they are stacked 20 deep on the bedside table.

Spend $60 on a software program called Scanalog and, using any scanner, you can scan your favorites and quickly store them in the program’s files. The program has 11 pre-set categories (like Parenting, Home, etc) and 102 sub-categories. Once you scan and store your files in their correct category, searching and retrieving is easy. Reduce your pile to manageable mouse clicks that won’t clutter your tabletops, desktops, and shelves. Check out www.scanalog.com.

Tired of tracking your life in a Franklin Planner, Palm, Pocket PC or through sticky notes pasted all over? Maybe you should check out Back Pack, a very cool web based organizational tool with some project management and file sharing features. From the company that sells Base Camp software for large-scale project management, Back Pack, allows you to easily create tasks, lists, and easily upload pictures and images. Read the rest »

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Last January at the World Economic Forum, Nicholas Negroponte from MIT’s Media Labs, announced an initiative that is audacious both in scope and the technical challenge it aims to achieve. The One Laptop Per Child foundation, an offshoot of MIT’s Media Lab, wants to design, build and distribute a $100 laptop to 150 million children around the world. Read the rest »