This is Mali’s favourite toy Pooh. It was given to us by Saskia and Rachel from school, and Mali loves knocking him over.
I’ve just knocked up a new set on Flickr of other photos of Mali at one month old, so go and check it out at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ldma/sets/670875/

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Corned-beef Hash with Fried Eggs

It’s not often I wake up on a Sunday morning with the inspiration to cook something I’d seen on a TV cooking show. Then again it’s not often I buy something as expensive as corned beef in this country, at 160 baht a tin this wasn’t a cheap one. It’s also not often that I’m so impressed with something I’ve cooked that I feel the urge to blog it.

If you do anything this week, try this awesome breakfast/lunch/dinner item out. Spectacularly nice, and easy to cook too.

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fear is what i feel

A refreshing break from the now relentless London stoicism, this website perhaps represents the inner-feelings of those average Britons without the prerequisit Photoshop skills to make it to We’re Not Afraid .com

…and there’s lots of swearing in it too..

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Back on the Flickr Memory Maps group again, an interesting discussion cropped up that discussed how buildings like the Whitehouse and other buildings that the US government considers sensitive.

Check out this photo which centers over the Whitehouse.

Fortunately should you wish to see what the White House looks from above for whatever nefarious or otherwise reasons, why not check out The Eyeball Series, a collection of of detailed maps of locations that the US government would rather you didn’t check out too closely…in case you’re a terrorist or something.

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The Cyborg Name Generator: AJARN

Check out the cyborg name generator, which assigns any name you choose into a lethal robot-like name and even makes it into a little avatar for you.

Here’s another one.

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West Bridgford Memory Map

This is a great idea which combines two great technologies; Google Maps and Flickr’s image notes.

What you do is that you capture an area that has some relavence to your life or past life on Google maps, upload it to Flickr and annotate it using the nlotes function. Then send it to the Memory Map group. While you’re there check out some other people’s maps….pretty cool meme.

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I realise I should have posted this a week ago, but for those that don’t know and read my blog just to belatedly announce the birth of our baby daughter Mali, who arrived last Thursday 23/6/05 at 2:37 PM weighing 3.5kg (and no I don’t know what it is in pounds…about 7 possibly).

We’ve been back home for 3 days now, and although it’s really tiring and my sleeping patterns are reverting to pre-student days…ie before midnight, Mali has so far been a dream, little crying…cute as you want

Thanks to everyone who sent me e-mails. I may get round to send ing some back, but I have to grab my computer time when I can these days. Yes I have been changing nappies, though Kan is kind enough to handle the pooey ones, despite her being in pain from the C-section.

You can see more photos of Mali and the first couple of days at
the Flickr set I created

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