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Cherry Blossoms 2007

Posted in Photography on March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I left for work an hour early so I could stop by and take some shots. This is my fave from today. See all the rest on Flickr.

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Anticipation!

Posted in WM_archive on March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Just a few more days

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I think they call this burying the lede…

Posted in WM_archive on March 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The title and lede from an AP article on CNN.com today:

Child care linked to later behavioral issues
WASHINGTON (AP) — The more time that children spent in child care, the more likely their sixth-grade teachers were to report problem behavior.

Meanwhile, buried in grafs 5 and 10:

The researchers said that the increase in vocabulary and problem behaviors was small, and that parenting quality was a much more important predictor of child development.

… The authors emphasized that the children’s behavior was within a normal range and that it would be impossible to go into a classroom, and with no additional information, pick out those who had been in child care.

Note that the increase in vocabulary was actually a positive. All in all, seems a bit like unnecessarily guilt-tripping a few million parents, eh?

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Flickr collections

Posted in Photography on March 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Cool! When did Flickr add collections? I missed that one.

Anyways, another tool to get you to sign up for their services, since this is only useful for people with multiple sets — and sets are limited for the free service.

The image at right is the mosaic I created for my DC Highlights collection of local travels around the District. I’m happy that the weather is warming up to make more such travels possible!

Update: I see Mike already set up his collections.

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Sanity restored

Posted in WM_archive on March 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

HuffPo is reporting that Helen Thomas’ front seat at the White House Briefing Room is being restored after having rudely been taken away.

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Herding cats?

Posted in WM_archive on March 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »

MSNBC picks up on a great quote in a recent Politico.com article.

In a similar “the times they are a-changin’ ” vein, the LA Times credits a blog — Talking Points Memo — with driving the US attorneys purge story that led to one of these rounds of subpoenas.

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Oops

Posted in WM_archive on March 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Back in January, I mentioned that I had watched a couple of planes miss their approach to National Airport and do a “do-over.” I speculated that this was because the approach from the north requires pilots to navigate a pretty good turn just before landing. I don’t think it’s a hardship for most pilots (while not really rare, these aren’t common either) used to flying into National, but every so often, it happens.

Anyways, ever since Jake suggested I was an “of an unqualified person talking about something that they do not know about,” presumably mistaking a takeoff of the same airline for a do-over, I’ve been keeping my camera ready.

Well, mostly ready. This video was captured with a digital camera, not video camera, and well, I missed the initial part of the bad approach (I can’t zoom/unzoom once it’s recording, and was just having trouble tracking in the viewer).

But yes Virginia…this is a flyover of National Airport:

Now the doubters will argue that I am again mistaking a take-off for a do-over, so I’ll probably post a photo showing the location of the water tower in relation to normal landings and takeoffs later today. It’s not even close.

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