One of the advantages of a self hosted wordpress blog is the ability to tailor the structure, layout and functionality. I might have compared it once to owning an earlier model british motorcycle - due to the compelling nature of having to go under the hood. The possibilities of wordpress are endless and only really limited by one’s imagination and one’s ability to “fiddle” (the nerd factor)…
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Monthly Archive for August, 2008
After journalist and blogging mate Malum Nalu posted a story a couple of days ago on Knol (Google’s replacement for Wikipedia) - I felt compelled to write a short story about another major Internet and technology announcement this past week…
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Her name is Lavi and she is the daughter of the coach of Eli’s Rugby Union team. Lavi follows her Dad around and can always be found with her Dad at the women’s training sessions. A couple of weeks ago I happened to find myself watching the gals go through their routines and something about the young Lavi attracted my attention. Lucky the camera was nearby!
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As with all our visits to the “Hut” last weekend was very relaxing and as usual - always hard to drag ourselves back to Goroka.
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Eli’s been in Hospital since Tuesday…
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As we come to the end of yet another week I would like to take a few moments to reflect on and acknowledge a few PNG bloggers and their blogs - ones that I regularly follow, read and if inspired drop in a comment or two…
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In response to the post I did last week on “Melanesian Quirks!” - I got the following response from my friend Nick…
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I stayed home today to be with Eli and to make sure that she’s OK - she’s just had an operation and was discharged over the weekend from Goroka General Hospital after being there for five days.
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Try this…
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I’ve been meaning to share with you for a while now exactly what I run under the hood (so to speak) as far as Wordpress plugins - which ones and and why I have these installed…
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One of the special traits about melanesian culture is the element of human interaction. Also, if one is lucky enough to have a house in a town somewhere - as we do - there will never be a shortage of family or clan members needing a place to crash for day or two (or more) that coming knocking on the front gate…
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Here’s a couple of photos I’ve been meaning to post of Eli when she was in hospital last week…
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At times it only seems like yesterday when I desperately wanted to grow up (different to those other times when I wander when the hell am I going to grow up!)…
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The Rudd government will give 2,500 visas to Pacific Islanders each year for the next three years so they can come to Australia to harvest fruit and vegetables…
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The number and variety of languages in Papua New Guinea is unbelievable. It is estimated that there are somewhere between 700 and 800 languages in this country that are currently spoken. Some suggest that this figure could be as high as 900. A tribal or local language is referred to in Tok Pisin as Tok Ples…
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Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California. White minorities still trying to have English recognized as Mexifornia’s third language…
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An award should go to the Air Niugini Airlines desk attendant in Sydney some months ago for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly as cargo…
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The number and frequency of power blackouts in PNG is unbelievable.
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Here are some photos of the students that I taught during my time at the Department of Business Studies - UNITECH (Lae) during 2005 and 2006. As I look at each of these photos and see the students that I taught I am flooded with some very fond memories. I hope each and every one of them is happy and doing well within their chosen careers…
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Celebrating Culture from the Highlands!
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Lorelle on Wordpress is currently doing a “How has Wordpress changed your life” segment and has asked for readers to contribute a short story which she may or may not include in her presentation at the up and comign WordCamp Portland gathering where she is the keynote speaker…
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The following is a list of US Government agencies or organisations currently using Wordpress…
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A name deeply etched into the history and memories of Papua New Guinea and it’s people. Most of you would have heard the name Amelia Earhart but few probably realise that Lae was her last stop over before going missing on her round the world flight…
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Recently a group of young men from the neighbourhood got together to form a new Rugby Union Club. These lads all live in our street or not too far away. In my opinion an excellent idea! So many of the young men in our towns roam aimlessly all day looking for some luck - in most cases just enough coins to buy their next meal and put something in their tummies…
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A 404 page is what you will see displayed within your browser when the website you are visiting has not been able to find the page you are looking for.
To make an analogy - it’s a bit like pissing on the toilet seat… headed in the right direction but slightly of the mark!!
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