Monthly Archive for July, 2008


Keto-Tapasi Progress Association…

Aims and Objectives.
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Photos from the weekend at Waraguma

The 30 odd photos that I took over the weekend out at Waraguma have now been posted to one of my many online albums.
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It would appear that Forestry and Corruption in PNG…

Go hand in hand!!
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PNG and Blogging!

The following story appeared in this weekend’s edition of The National.
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The 10 things that annoy me about PNG

All is not a bed of roses in PNG and there are times when I seriously think about throwing in the towel…
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Simbu photos

I have finally completed the arduous task of uploading all of the outstanding photos to the Simbu Photo Albums!
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Blog statistics for June 2008

The most read post during the month of June, 2008 was….
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Ancient Chinese tortures

Perhaps the worst form of torture known to man!!
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PNG National Health Conference 2008

The PNG National Health Conference for 2008 was held this week in Port Moresby and I am led to believe that the theme for this years conference is: “Human Resource”…
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Blogging in Papua New Guinea

I have been an avid blogger since early 2005 and although I have never attracted thousands of regular readers nor created layouts to blow your mind, I have thoroughly enjoyed the process…
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Where are you Lucy Larandiloloa?

Someone is looking for you!
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10 Tips for the newcomer to Blogging

There’s been some interest recently via the PNG media about the subject of Blogging. If you are thinking about setting up your own blog and don’t have a clue where or how to begin then read on…
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A first for Papua New Guinea!

Wordpress 2.6 has been released within the last few hours and it’s probably fair to say that I will probably become the first self hosted WP blogger in PNG to run on latest version. (Are there any other self hosted bloggers in PNG?).
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Running a self hosted Wordpress Blog…

I reckon is a bit like owning a British motorcycle (well, one of the older models anyway)! Going under the hood to tinker is driven firstly by the inherent need for maintenance but also driven by the passion that goes along with “riding” either one of these machines…
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Tropfest 2008 a la Lae!

Finally a post about something other than blogging…
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Why?

With Google returning over a billion results when asking the question WHY?
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Herbs of Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea has an amazing collection of herbs. All sorts of herbs for cooking, herbs for healing and herbs for just chewing. Some of these herbs are known by the West whilst others are native to PNG.
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Malum Nalu

Malum is a Papua New Guinea journalist and writer who contributes quality feature articles to The National newspaper. Malum writes on a range of PNG topics, from history to Information Technology and also Development issues to name a few. The PNG media has developed a reputation for very negative reporting and in my opinion Malum is one of the better journalists in PNG at present, his stories are positive, factual and varied…
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How much Spam do you receive?

I don’t know about you but my “inbox” ends up with at least a few dozen spam emails a day and I’m positive that if it wasn’t for the filtering software there would literally be hundreds if not thousands!
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The impact of Tribal Warfare

There was a time and it wasn’t that long ago when I felt drawn to the romance of tribal warfare. It might have been the fighting thing or perhaps how the free expression of anger towards an enemy is condoned in Highland’s culture….
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The joy in giving!

The act of giving creates an incredible feeling of reward and connection with other humans. The saying: “Give and you shall receive” could not be further from the truth. To give is to receive!
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Eastern Highlands Women’s Rugby Union

Yep… Full contact, no holds barred, woman against woman !!
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Not another weekend at the “Hut” !!

Yep!
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Wests Junior Rugby League Mini Newsletter

My sister sent me this newsletter as an email attachment the other day. It’s the current newsletter put together and published for a Junior Rugby League Club in the inner Western Suburbs of Sydney…
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The perfect Birthday gift?

Wife mentioned to her husband that for her birthday…
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Melanesian quirks!

I first came across this list mid 2005 and have since seen it circulated making reference to Papua New Guineans, Solomon Islanders and various other pacific folks. It’s probably reasonable to suggest that these quirks apply to melanesian people across the board…
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Goroka General Hospital website gets a facelift!

After only one month of going live with a new website we have ditched what we had and have replaced it with something totally different…
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