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How Apps Have Changed Our Lives

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This past week has been a frenzy of doctor visits, hospital hallways, pills and just not feeling well.  I have spent many a day in doctors rooms and hospital hallways with Jessica and many more I am sure to come. Nine years ago, I was rocking her in my arms hoping that the doctor would come soon as her feed was growing closer and popping my boob out to feed her was not an option. Not that I wouldn't have done that if I could but Jess needed to be fed via a tube directly into her stomach, so it was a necessity to get home with our sterile equipment, the right formula and feeding kit. One visit we spent 5 hours waiting for the Pediatric surgeon to arrive (he patched mostly abused children back together, he was the best and we were prepared to wait), he needed to replace her tube. Jess was 3 months old, anyone who has had a baby knows 5 hours is an eternity, she was a saint. At one Jess could be entertained with a few toys and as she was not really mobile it was more a...

Digitizing your Memories - Happy Birthday

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In the middle of writing a piece on The Digitization of Heritage and Media in Qatar, I was reminded of a video that I took of Jessica a few weeks ago and have just not had time to share. When we first arrived in Qatar, Sean and Jess could sing Happy Birthday in three languages - English, Afrikaans (Dutch) and Zulu. Our National Anthem has four languages, the ones mentioned already and Xhosa, all very African. Jess can still sing Happy Birthday in three languages, with two slight variations from the original being Arabic and French replacing Afrikaans and Zulu. So here is Jessica's rendition of Happy Birthday for us in her two new languages :) + English!!