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18th May 2007

What I’ve Been Doing Today – 2007-05-18

  • 0857 – Today’s Car CD = Nick Drake “Five Leaves Left” – all time classic folk-rock. Superb! #
  • 0908 – Always a relief to see a patient that I have been worried about and see that everything is going fine #
  • 1039 – Got some choccies and a card from an appreciative patient – this job ain’t all bad :) #
  • 1042 – Running ahead of time now. Watching Metalocalypse ep 6 “Dethfam” and eating Celebration chocolates. It’s all good #
  • 1119 – On hold to a big hospital. The on hold music is Canon, not as cool as JerryC’s version though #
  • 1159 – Finished for the morning. Now heading off to pick up some vaccines for the family today and try again and find a box for my X-Box #
  • 1250 – Drug rep brought Chinese food for lunch, which is always good. She also gave me a cool laser pointer, that I’m playing with now #
  • 1419 – Stumbled across the website for a very nice residential development near Kampala http://www.fbwprojects.com/chatsworthpark.html #
  • 1437 – Time for some more Metalocalypse – this show rocks (.. not for those who don’t appreciate Death Metal or gratuitous violence though) #
  • 1608 – Finished for the week. Just waiting for the family to arrive so we can all have travel vaccinations, then head up to Fremantle #
  • 2046 – Home from Freo. Boys fell asleep in the car. Vaccinations weren’t fun but at least they are all over with. Time to relax now… #



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18th May 2007

Rockingham Photo Gallery

Rockinghamgateway Photo Gallery

Here’s a collection of photos from our local area at the Rockingham Gateway website, which I discovered whilst browsing some blog comments. Plenty of good shots of our great beaches and more.



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18th May 2007

International Days

It’s seems that every other day is an “International Day of …” something. The last couple of weekends have seen the passing of the annual international midwives day, and international nurses day, both of which were commemorated at our hospital with posters and balloons. hivvaccine.gifI’m still waiting for them to celebrate “International Doctors’ Day” – I don’t even know if there is one at all. Maybe us doctors are just too busy or simply just don’t crave that kind of attention or recognition…

Anyway, at least some of these International Days are worth paying attention to. I didn’t know it, but May 18th is International HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (note this is different to World AIDS day on December 1.) The development of a HIV vaccine is possibly one of the most important scientific challenges in the world today, and one you rarely hear about in the media. The following is a good article from Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper looking at the current state of affairs…

Monitor Online | Health | Uganda: 10 years of HIV vaccine tests



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18th May 2007

Jerry Falwell

Ben Witherington: Mr. Falwell Moves On Up

I didn’t know a whole lot about him, but I’d always had a very negative impression about Jerry Falwell, the American fundamentalist leader who died a couple of days ago. The above article by Ben Witherington doesn’t completely change that (and indeed some quotes in the comments on the post actually reinforce it) but it does present a more balanced, more positive view of the man – unlike other televangelists he was an honest and authentic man who sincerely believed in what he said, and was not afraid to apologise when at times he got it wrong. For all the harmful things he said and believed, the man did a lot of good as well, and you have to give him credit for that.

For another, similar article see this post by left-wing Christian Jim Wallis of Sojourners. If even he can find some positive things to say about Falwell then he can’t be all bad.

EDIT (24/5) : and here’s some more thoughtful comments on Falwell , this time by N T Wright.



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