A couple of boxes arrived recently courtesy the family back in Oz…
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Monthly Archive for April, 2008
Starts to take shape but without much substance yet.
As mentioned in a previous post I have been busy with the setting up of a new website - Robert@PNG V4 - the “V” stands for version…
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That this blog migration project is going to be a mammoth exercise!
Between getting the new one setup and keeping the current one up and running - there's going to be little time to move all…
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It is Eli's birthday today!!
The love of my life turned 29 today!
It has been a busy week work wise so the two of us will go to the Bird for lunch on Sunday. A romantic…
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Story as it appeared in…and…(God please have mercy on me!!)
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They DropBy MATT RICHTEL
Published: April 6, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours,
often to exhaustion. Many are…
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One of the nice things about volunteering, working and living in PNG are the folks that one gets to meet along the way.
There's a whole collection of different “types” that venture the shores
of the Land…
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Eli now has her very own private email address!
In the past people could contact her via eli@schilt.info but all emails
sent to this address came via my inbox (don't ask - long story!).
With the recent set…
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The vegetable variety!
I've done a heap of searching on the net and have not been able to find any reference to this exotic vegetable.
Within PNG culture but even more so here in the Highland's it…
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I have already made a decision to migrate to another blogging platform: Wordpress.As I have already mentioned this process is both slow and painful but with a little persistence and despite Eli's nagging to spend…
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Downtown Goroka,
red corner,
described by many as…
the worst of the worst.
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This story appeared in yesterday's issue of The National newspaper…MARION Jacka and Kevin Cotter are
Australian volunteers who, collectively, have been working in PNG for
the last seven years.
The two were in the FM…
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The migration process has finally started!
Photos will no longer be posted to this blog and from now on will be posted to my new and revised online Photo Album website.
It's still early days and there's…
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Slowly takes shape!!
And we move into 2nd gear!
After a visit to the village last week by a local coffee exporter we are
now ready to sell our 1st batch of coffee. Approximately 200 x 50kg bags…
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I have taken my new photo album software : Coppermine for a bit of a test run over the past few days and although not perfect - I have made a decision to use it…
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Dad…
It’s been 7 years since you left us,
and today,
on the anniversary of your passing away,
we remember you.
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Testing the blog by email function under Wordpress 2.5…
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PNG inefficiency knows no bounds,
PNG inefficiency has no limits,
frustration galore,
How does someone get something done?
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Can be viewed in my new online Photo Album.All the photos that we took during Mum's visit to PNG have been put in two separate albums as follows:1) My photos.2) Photos by Mum.Here's a photo…
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Wish there was such a thing…
There needs to be a “World Blog Free Day” once every so often!
I am driven to blog at least one post per day. Today is one of those
days I don't…
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Is starting to take shape!For a preview click here…Posts are not quite up to date but the layout is just about there. Been playing around lately with the logos and headers and if you want…
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Here's an interesting email I received from a Papua New Guinean friend of mine a couple of weeks ago…Hi Rob,The 'trupela.com' blog fits perfectly with the kind of person you are. You would be surprised…
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Folks…
That day was today!!
(I just spent the last hour writing this story only to accidentally hit an obscure combination of keys on my laptop which caused all my typing to be lost).
To summarise…
The newly formed…
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Today was one of the busiest days of my life!
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It’s 7:00am and I’ve been up for an hour…
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Standing in the queue,
to withdraw,
a wad of cash,
and the gut churns.
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To cutover to the new blog format…
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Robert@PNG V4 is up and running…
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