Every time I look at the American flag, I feel torn.  The flag, like every other, is a symbol.  The American flag in particular represents some wonderful things.  Most of the greatest events in the last 200 years were thanks to America, events such as the rise of modern democracy.  But America also has some stains on her history, things like slavery (after most of the rest of the civilized world had abandoned the practice), internment camps for Japanese Americans, and ethnic warfare against Native Americans.

You know how I'm a fan of technology, especially my smartphone, so it's not surprising that I've found ways to use it to help me entertain Nathan.  Here are my four favorite resources.

The standard caveat applies: anything screen-based is to be taken in small doses.  I let him online less than once a day, and only for limited periods of time.  Then we read a good old fashioned book, play with Duplo, or build a train set.  A real, physical train set using Brio tracks.

We've got new photos of Nathan!

Wild Animal Park from a couple months ago:

What's new?  Oh my goodness, so many things I don't have time to talk about.  But I absolutely have to share this.  I spent all day trying to figure it out.  Congratulations, net wanderer, you get to benefit from my wisdom.

The task: Create a video gallery in Drupal.  The client wants multiple videos attached to a single node, with thumbnails.  When you click on a thumbnail, the video opens in a larger box on the same page.  The videos will either come from youtube or vimeo.

What you'll need:

You may have heard about this awesome computer game called Minecraft.  It's actually been out for a while now, but I've held off on blogging about it, for one very good reason.  I can explain why this game is awesome, I can link to a review that explains why this game is awesome, but the best writers say "show, don't tell," so I had to wait until I could really show you what makes this game so awesome.