Although most of us need to work – to generate an income – to be able to exist, not all sweat and toil needs to be rewarded financially. This category includes stories from the places that I have worked in PNG including the volunteering aspect. I also share – in this section – about the gifts given away to the locals (mainly kids) courtesy my immediate family and also some friends from Australia. There’s of course the mandtory bric-a-brac – but you will have to work that one out for yourselves.
Subscribe to posts in "Works in Progress"That stands for Institute of Medical Research. This is where I am at the moment (2:20pm) connected to their (almost) broadband ISP connection. I can get rather anal about having my personal laptop updated and patched at the latest levels…
Another box arrived a few weeks ago…
Started today! All five being trained up to be Ingots Trainers. Ingots is the system of IT training that we have adopted at the Hospital. Interestingly all PC’s in the Training room (and eventually the Hospital) are running Open Source Software…
GGH = Goroka General Hospital. I have posted some photos of a few of the staff I work with at Goroka General Hospital. These can be viewed in the “Staff” photo album…
From the Buddhist Thought of the Day website…
With the recent delivery of donated hardware from ITShare – the Hospital’s IT Team together with help from Karl (ITShare) are busy setting up a network for the Hospital…
A mate from Madang has recently commissioned a website that sells PNG arts and crafts online. He has asked me to add a link to his website from my blog in order to bump up his ratings…
Due to problems with my blog site – today’s entry is going to be short and
sweet. By short and sweet I literally mean short and sweet. That is short
and sweet as in short and sweet…
After months of waiting and waiting and waiting. the ITShare container has finally made it to Goroka.…
I recently started a PNG Open Source web page separate to my own blog. There’s not much on there right now but I am hoping that it will generate some interest within the Open Source Community and within PNG generally…