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Stumbled across this tonight. Replace the 8 “N”s in the following link with a largish 8-digit number (numbers starting with 4021 were working reasonably well) to find random peoples photo albums on PhotoWorks: http://www.photoworks.com/util/slideShowLarge2.jsp?stackID=NNNNNNNN A lot of numbers don’t work …but some do.

It’s a not un-weird experience. I can’t say that I recommend that you try it, or that I would suggest that you try it …but it was just too bizarre of an experience not to share. Not a new concept, manually munging URLs, but in this case, since it was with people’s semi-private (insofar as they were anonymous) photo galleries, the weird factor was waay up. At least for me. YMMV.

And I’m hoping to elicit some strong opinions (pro or con) from my readership. Things like that are good for traffic :)

I won’t waste your time — here’re the links: Audrey’s First Bath! >> Various August pictures >>

And no grief over an album called “Various August pictures” — it’s been a busy month ;)

And as an “added bonus” or “free gift” (any other similar redundancies I could tack on there?): another video! (below) (more…)

They’re up! Birth >> Homecoming >> Settling In >>

Also — another video clip (below) of my parents entertaining the baby …and each other.

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Audrey Nichole Morris was born at 2:35am August 2nd at North Fulton Regional Hospital; she weighed 6 lbs 11oz and was 19.5 inches long. Both baby and baby-mama are doing just fine and as of this afternoon are already back home. Pictures and the whoooole story will be posted soon (after some much-needed sleep is had), but I’ll say this for now: castor oil works.

UPDATE: added a video clip (below) of Nichole’s first time holding Audrey, right after she was born

UPDATE 2: if any of you family-types are wondering what exactly Audrey is to you (”first cousin once removed”, etc) check out geneology.com’s explanation (and handy worksheet).

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