Today’s Solomon Star screamed “Whose Highly Paid”. There was no doubt that some parliamentarians would top the list, it was a question of how much. Again the Solomon Islands Public Employees Union, SIPEU, should be dismayed to learn that a minister of the crown takes home $360,000 per month. That…
Web hosting at Our Telekom wears a Redhat too!
Hurray, this has been a day I had looked forward to for more than 4 years. Since I started at Our Telekom in 2005, I have made it an open secret that we must offer open source alternatives like Linux and Apache as options for our customers. Even getting MySQL/PHP…
PacINET 2009 comes to Port Moresby
PacINET is the region’s premier Internet conference, an annual event organized by the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society, PICISOC. This year, PacINET heads to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and for the first time since 2006, I will not be attending. I first attended in Samoa in 2006,…
Week wrap up – a few twists too many
Thought that I’d summarize the week since a lot of things have happened and I have not had time to write. I am still reeling and quite tired. Top of the list is the launch of the Our Telekom website. This has been long overdue and I finally feel quite…
Uncovering lost treasures | Revisiting “Sweet Lullaby”
I was a young, proud Solomon Islander but probably a little naive and nostalgic when the hit single “Sweet Lullaby” became an international phenomena. At school, I would listen to the song for hours and allow myself to be caught transfixed by its sheer brilliance. At a time when the…
SPAM | An annoyance not worth our time
Lifhaus is the social networking site I spent hours building. It is still a work in progress but most of its internal structures are already in place. As for my lofty ambitions to simulate Facebook; well I have to admit I have neither the time nor the money to build…