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Friday, March 14th, 2008By now, you’ve noticed that the site looks different. If you haven’t, then you’re reading this in an feed reader and should stop by for a visit.
The header was done by Sandi using her recently-acquired Photoshop skills. I think it looks great and we can switch out the family photos as new ones are taken. [...]
A Public Service Message from FiveBrowns
Thursday, January 31st, 2008If you have a blog, make sure that you back it up regularly.
I awoke this morning to find FiveBrowns serving up an installation message. “Uh oh,” thought Bill. I checked the database and it was empty. 5 years, 1206 entries, 1569 comments gone. No backups from the automated Dreamhost backup system. “OMG!” thought Bill. Oh [...]
Good Stuff
Sunday, November 18th, 2007We’ve been talking about books we like recently and I think it might be useful to collect all of those in a central place on the site. We read pretty widely in an ongoing effort to be better parents, spouses, and people. Eventually, I could see us adding capsule summaries or full-on reviews to further [...]
Updated Blogroll
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007I have updated my blogroll to include changes to peoples domains and to include a new category of Guatemalan adoption blogs.
Enjoy!
(If I don’t have you listed and you would like to be just send me an email.)
Future Proofing
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007In case anyone is worried, I’ve purchased 6browns.com already.
New Feature
Monday, April 2nd, 2007I’ve finally added the number one feature request of the more-prolific half of this blog team: the picture of the day. It’s based on a Flickr badge and it was fairly simple to do.
If you want to see a larger size of the PoD, just click on it and you will be whisked off to [...]
Look and Feel
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007As you may have noticed (if you’re not one of our 1 RSS feed subscribers), we’ve changed our look. Every now and then (okay, in our case, never before) you have to update things or else they get stale.
I modified the heck out of the Citrus Explosion free WordPress theme under Sandi’s watchful eye. Believe [...]
No Pics
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006I’m sure plenty of you are wondering where all the Christmas pictures are. Unfortunately, our lovely iBook G4—Whitey to those who know and love him—had massive internal hemorrhaging (a logic board problem) and had to be sent back to Apple for gutting and refurbishing. We’ve got tons of great pictures to share, but it might [...]
Gallery
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005The gallery will be down for a bit. I’m moving to different software.
New Additions
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005I’ve just posted nearly one hundred new photos in the last couple of days so I thought I’d point out a few of the notables:
Feeding Time: pictures (1,2,3) of Kimberly feeding something
Madeline’s Hospital Visit: pictures (1,2,3,4) of Madeline in the hospital during her RSV bout
Annie Doing Crazy Things: pictures (1,2,3,4) of Annie acting like Annie
Kimberly [...]
Pictures Galore
Sunday, June 26th, 2005I’ve just finished uploading 480 photographs to the gallery. They represent the first four months of Kimberly and Annie’s lives and they’re fully titled—well, looking back, I see a few I missed. I will try to upload at least a month at a time, but it’s going to be fairly slow going because the titles [...]
Talk Back
Saturday, June 18th, 2005I’ve added a contact form to this site so you can send us an email without ever having to know our email address. As a reader, we’d love to give you our email addresses but if we publicly shared them then the spammers would get them. Thus far, our fivebrowns.com email addresses have been remarkably [...]
Time Since
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005The sense of age is one of the features that didn’t survive the transition from PregoBlog to FiveBrowns. If you remember, each entry had The Girls’ ages at the time of the entry and the front page of the blog had their current ages displayed. Sandi’s wanted me to whip that up, but I never [...]
Getting Pic-y
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005I’ve added 44 more pictures to the gallery. I’ve also reorganized the pictures a bit better so that the taxonomy is what we in the industry call scalable. Eventually there could be thousands of photos and I don’t want you to have to wade through oodles of pictures to see what you want to see.
Enjoy!
Gallery with Comments
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005Uh huh, what did I say? Couple of weeks? That’s right, the gallery is fully titled, commented, and keyworded (I know that’s not a word, come up with something better). I didn’t want to start adding all these pictures until I had at least done Madeline’s birth gallery—it would just create a backlog that I [...]
Gallery’s Ready
Friday, April 22nd, 2005Okay, I’ve got the pictures up and available on the web site. You’ll have to figure out where they are.
Just kidding, they’re right here. I haven’t cleaned up the layout (and it’s not very girly at all), but at least they’re up.
Enjoy!
[UPDATE: Oh, and I'll be titling the pictures and putting descriptions up over the [...]
Frequently Asked Question
Thursday, October 7th, 2004One question that we get asked by people comfortable enough to ask us such things is why we continue to call our family blog “PregoBlog” even though it’s been over eleven months since we were pregnant. It’s a good question and I normally answer that we like the continuity: it would be odd to see [...]
Age Tracker Update
Monday, February 16th, 2004If you read the age tracker of The Girls above since they were born, you would have noticed that it gave some really odd results. I finally had a few minutes of time to figure out the mistakes and it’s now temporally correct. Yeah!
[UPDATE (8/8/04): I've also added an age tracker to each individual page [...]
Countdown … Or Countup?
Saturday, November 1st, 2003Something’s very screwy about the countdown up there. I got it working quite nicely for a countdown, but it doesn’t seem to work right for the countup. I’ll fix it when I get a second; I’m sure it’s just a math thing or that I’m using the wrong function for a countup.
Virtual Home
Thursday, August 7th, 2003I just bought a new domain for my family. I’ve long coveted thebrowns.com, but that was owned by some reseller of email addresses. bbrown.com slipped through my grip last year. For the last year or so, I’ve settled for bbrown.info but it never felt quite right as a familial home. The name of the site, [...]
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