Archive for the ‘Baby’ Category

Stride Rite – They’re alright!

Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Baby's got shoes

Baby's got shoes

Remember that letter I sent to Stride Rite? Well I got their attention I guess.

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Stride Rite – will they make good?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Arent they cute?

Baby needs shoes!

When an associate promises to exchange the shoes and the manager refuses, send a complaint letter to corporate. The ball is on Stride Rite’s court, I am sending them a letter that you can read after the jump.

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Paternity leave.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

I decided not to take much time off work immediately after the baby was born, I thought it would be better to save those precious vacation/personal for a stormy day or days.

The stormy days are here! My mother in-law went back home last Sunday, she’s been a lot of help but all good things must come to an end. I know a lot of you are gonna be perplexed. Yes I do get along with my mother in-law!

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Ever heard of “Weewee Blockers”?

Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Weewee Blockers

Weewee Blockers

One of my favorite sites to hunt for good deals is Slickdeals.net, I have a few Deal alerts set up on that site. To set up a Deal alert, you simply provide a keyword and tell it that you want an instant notification to your email address.

One of my alerts consists of one keyword: “Baby”. I found out this is a great way to know about a lot of the baby related products out there, I mean some of them I didn’t even know they existed, weewee blockers is a great example! (more…)

Useful timers (for pregos + new moms).

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
The baby was coming FAST!
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As soon as we learned we were pregnant with our second baby I started thinking of a simple way to track feeding times. I knew it had to be a touch-screen solution for it to be convenient, and since I have a 3com Audrey internet appliance; I thought I’ll just put together a Javascript based timer and have it all web based. Sweet, sounds like a great idea, how do I execute it?

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