2007/12/29 23:20
Hvem ligner Anna?Mange siger, hun ligner mig, andre, at hun ligner sin mor, og andre forslag har inkluderet min mor, Phyllis' mor, min far, min søster, Ursula, Léon, Charlotte og Marcel.Her er nogle babybilleder af Anna, mig, min søster og Phyllis, så kan I selv vurdere, hvem hun p.t. ligner mest.
2007/12/22 22:51
I took this wee video clip five minutes after Anna Bridget was born:I've had some problems uploading videos to YouTube from the new Sony HDD camcorder my parents gave us because of the file sizes and the 16:9 format, but I found some useful advice here – use mencoder and the following options:mencoder infile.mpg -o outfile.avi \ -ovc lavc -oac...
2007/12/30 16:29
I’m just watching a press conference with Benazir Bhutto’s husband and son. It’s been decided to make the latter party leader after his mother.
To me, this is yet another indication that Pakistan is a failed country. Surely a 19-year-old university student is not the most qualified person to attempt to gain power in a large country with a huge army?
I read an article a few months ago (alas, I can’t find the link) that argued that Pakistan is functioning so badly because it was founded on a religious basis (as the muslim part of India), without any ethnic, linguistic, historical or ideological foundations, which means that people can’t agree on anything apart from keeping the country muslim.
It’s a bit like most African countries, which typically have borders that ignore to all linguistic and ethnic divisions. I often wonder whether it would be better to redraw the map of Africa to make the countries more homogeneous. Only problem is nobody would have the authority to do that.
In the case of Pakistan, I don’t even have a clue how it could be fixed. Should the country be split up into smaller countries (Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh and Kashmir, for instance)? Or would it be better for all of Pakistan to rejoin India?
2007/12/24 21:03
I blogged this Christmas card last year:It didn't seem to be wildly noticed at the time, but last Monday I suddenly got 400 blog visitors in a day (compared to the usual 20-30), and it seems to have been caused by this, probably through this link.Anyway, Merry Christmas!
2007/12/23 16:34
Anna had her hearing tested when she was one day old.They mounted electrodes on her head and neck, put on some fancy headphones and then played noises and measured through the electrodes whether her brain registered them. She was asleep half the time, but it still worked fine (and her hearing was just fine, by the way).I think it's so...
2007/12/20 23:01
When Phyllis and I went to the hospital after the waters broke, we naturally had to go to triage in the first instance – it's their job to check the stage of labour and send people home or to the...
2007/12/19 16:41
On 19 December 2007, at 4.24 a.m., Phyllis and I had a daughter: Anna Bridget Buchanan-Widmann. She is beautiful, weighs 3400 g and is 50 cm long.Everything went well, but really fast: Phyllis woke me up at 1 a.m., we arrived at...
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