travel

The exit row

After teaching the WordPress courses over the weekend for Pacific New Media I caught a shuttle bus to the Honolulu Inter-Island airport terminal. It was about a 20 or 30 minute trip from Lincoln Hall at the University campus since we stopped to pick up a couple of other passengers on the way. I arrived [...]

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Aloha from Honolulu

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to write here — I was preparing for a trip to Hawai’i, to teach some courses about WordPress. Now I’m in Honolulu, fitting in some sightseeing before a weekend of busy hands-on training. The first photo shows me at the top of Diamond Head crater in Honolulu. [...]

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Distract-a-driver

I keep coming across news reports of tourists involved in road accidents. In some parts of the country I’ve seen useful arrows marked on the roads, reminding drivers to move to the left — many of our visitors come from countries where they drive on the right. New Zealand offers plenty of distractions for drivers: [...]

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Summer Surfer’s Kit

Whatever you’re doing this summer, there are some handy websites to know about. It’s summer. If we’re lucky the sun will shine occasionally and we can get out into the outdoors, relax, take a break, recharge and refresh. But whatever you’re doing, there are some handy websites to know about. The Met Service has free [...]

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