After our first trip to Colombia, we had a large collection of photos (and some videos) we wanted to share with family and friends. However, I was conscious of the fact that I didn’t really want all of these photos made public, especially some of the photos from the Pension Stein which showed kids of … [Read More »]
Archives for 2012
Documents Sent
Found out this morning that our updated documents have finally been sent to Colombia. There’s nothing more we can do now until we get notified of a travel date by the orphanage, once our documents have been translated into Spanish. I think this is the worst part – waiting for a travel date. We can’t … [Read More »]
Poor quality MP4 output from PowerDirector
I finally worked out what was causing the poor quality MP4 video output from PowerDirector 10 – even at very high bitrates. Turns out that the hardware video encoder in my ThinkPad T510 really doesn’t do MP4 very well. I did discover that for certain source video formats (especially the AVCHD videos from my Sony … [Read More »]
Medicals cleared
As part of the process of getting a visa for our daughter to enter Australia, she needs to have medical checks for things such as TB or HIV. While we aren’t expecting there to be any problems – there is always a chance that something previously missed will turn up and she will be denied … [Read More »]
Brave Boy
Back to see the travel doctor again today. Andres is much better, so the doctor was happy to give him his immunisations. Although Andres has been a bit nervous since he understands what an immunisation involves, we’ve tried to minimise the fuss and fear by talking to him a lot about it. We also promised … [Read More »]