2008
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How is this for an email address?
reckon I just scored the coolest of email addresses if your surname is “Schilt” it might mean something – otherwise not. Ready? My new email address is: “Robert@Schi.lt” – is that cool or what?…
The ultimate wine glass
I’ll have two glasses please!…
The Best of News Feeds #9
My newsreader is busy even when I’m asleep! Here’s some of the stories that have come my way over the past couple of weeks. A wide range of stories – from Open Source to fires in Lae, Wordpress 2.7 announcements to XMAS tales, an alarming story on infanticide and much more…
When the Police become Judge and Executioner
Last week prominent PNG business man – Sir George Constantinou – was stoned to death by thugs near the Tete settlement in Port Moresby. The story of this brutal and senseless murder appeared in the Wednesday’s edition of The National. A couple of days later another story was published about how the Police had gone in and razed Tete settlement to the ground…
Blog now at WordPress 2.7
Despite what I said the other day about not upgrading for a while – I went ahead anyway. Been secretly trying out 2.7 on a Test Blog I setup for the purpose. Latest build of K2 with 50 odd plugins and all seems in order. No major dramas touch wood!…
Chilli oil fumes works wonders
Funny thing since we started burning fresh chilli oil – the noisy arseholes of neighbours from next door have been very quite. All we heard when we got up this morning was some coughing and spluttering. Long live grandma’s remedies!!…
10 Reasons why I’m not upgrading to WordPress 2.7
Wordpress 2.7 arrived on the scene only a few days ago and I’ve been feeling a subtle pressure to upgrade. For many years now I have had a rigorous routine of maintaining all my software at the latest versions. Although the advantages of this approach are numerous there’s also the time and energy that go into this approach that need to be considered…
Confessional a la Irish
Paddy and Sean are walking past the Cathedral and Paddy days to Sean’You aint been to confession for over a year…
Inconsiderate neighbours
Our neighbours have been at it again all night totally inconsiderate of the needs of others. Nothing but drunkard louts and self centred arse-holes. Man takes a drink – drink takes a drink – drink takes the man…
Photos from the Madang trip
Here’s a few of the photos I managed to take on our recent trip to Madang. This was my 2nd time to this Nth Coast town of Papua New Guinea. The first time was around this time last year and as with our 1st visit this trip was also motivated to catch up with our friends Nick and Bernadette. On this occasion we were there to witness the baptism of their daughter Salote all the way out at Bogia…
