The Second Time Around

I’ve spoken about Rogue Amebia’s Audio Hijack Pro before since it’s such an important tool for our podcast. Last night I discovered a new use for the application.

I was looking for a sound clip but the only thing that I could find was a YouTube video of said audio. AHP came to the rescue sine it allows me to record sound from Safari. I gave it a try and it worked briliantly. Hopefully you’ll hear the new sound in our upcoming podcast.

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To the girl that started ivf! Yep, the first “test tube baby” was born 30 years ago today.

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Companies in the UK are starting to give their employees official days off to be used for fertility treatment. There is no standard yet as each company has it’s own policy. This is so encouraging to see and I hope the US and other countries will follow the UK’s lead.

How much easier my life would have been, when I was going through treatment the first time around, if my company would have had some sort of policy like this in play.

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Rivky’s really enjoying day camp this year. The staff seems to truly want to show the kids a good time. They have a themed “vacation” everyday of a new spot they are “traveling” to. Almost every day she comes home with a new toy or ornament. I wish camp was this much fun when I was a kid, I might have actually enjoyed going! This Friday she came home with a thermos drinking cup for being the best camper of the week. I thought I’d share it here. It case you cant read the wording it says - “I’m a picture perfect camper”.

We are so proud.

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Congrats to our dear Mel who got a nice mention in the Baltimore Sun. It looks like she’s really enjoying Blogher at the moment.

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My cousin got married tonight. The wedding was nice and it was nice to see my family. Emotionally it was hard though. Just about every women under the age of 40 had a baby in her hands, sling or stroller ( or was expecting one). When did everyone start bringing their babies to every wedding? I can’t even imagine how much they can enjoy themselves with having to worry about their baby crying every minute.

Rivky was great though - she danced up a storm and proudly pronounced at 9:15pm that she wasn’t even tired yet. Her she is before we left the house.

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Interesting article from the Independent, UK on what the future might hold for fertility and a review on how far we’ve come.

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Tonight Malky and I discuss the topic of IPS. What is IPS you may ask? Well listen and find out all about it….

Malky and I also go over the poll and talk about some infertility news that has come up and offer our opinions.

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Links discussed:

• Uterus Size May Predict Risk for Premature Twins After IVF
• Overweight Men and sperm production
• Going Abroad For Treatment
• Music by John Benedict
• Hosting and bandwidth by Ataraxia Consulting
• About.com’s infertility site

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Today I was waiting to put Rivky on the bus to go to camp. A few of my neighbors were out as well. One of the mom’s has 3 kids and one has 2 and is about to pop her third. The neighbor with the 3 kids was warning the other one how hard three kids are and how it’s impossible to leave your house. All I could think was what are you guys complaining about? Do you know how blessed you are to be able to have 3 children?  I know people just like to complain and they wouldn’t give up their children if they had the choice but come on. At least don’t talk that way in front of me. It really upset me today.

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Like millions of other people, I upgraded my iPhone to the new 2.0 firmware that was released with the second generation iPhone (known here in the US as the iPhone 3G) . There were numerious articles and blog posts written about the problems that happened on Friday (the short story is that Apple’s website couldn’t keep up with the demand) and you would have thought that Apple would have learned their lesson after last year.

Once I finally got the software onto the iPhone at about 3:00pm using the new firmware was almost like a religious experience. The first thing that I tested was the Active Sync component. This will allow someone to get their email in real time along with their contacts and calendar. All synchronized over the air. It worked as advertised and I now get my email pushed to my iPhone and it’s quite exciting. Of course this is working with Kerio MailServer and not Microsoft Exchange but I would assume that your results would be the same. 

The other exciting this is the app store, which will allow you to download applications to your phone. There are free ones and there are ones that you can pay for. I installed several free apps and have been mulling over buying a really neat looking app as well. The free apps are what you would expect AIM, Facebook and NetNewsWire just to name a few. They are all very well written well (UI wise) and do a very good job of doing what you want to do with it. 

The app that I am looking to buy is At Bat from MLB.com. This allows you to get updated scores and watch the scoring plays a few minutes after they happen! Really cool, eh? 

I think that once I get the new G3 iPhone and I hand the old one down to Malky, she’ll be really happy with what she is getting. 

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