Kids have an inquisitive mind when it comes to drawings. They can express their imaginations freely through their drawings. I have been encouraging my son lately to get into digital art after seeing him draw some really fascinating things at his young age of 6. He will be turning 7 this year (2021) and I promised him I will buy a digital tablet for him to start drawing.
Well I haven't bought him the tablet yet but that hasn't stopped him from drawing some nice looking pictures in MS Paint just using the laptop touchpad. I'm pretty sure when he get's a hold of his tablet he'll be creating some interesting pictures.
Here are some of his recent drawings using MS paint, using the touchpad.
We'll be writing a short follow up to this later when his tablet arrives and he starts using it.
Enjoying the weekend? Well ours was a lazy one loafing around the campus here at Divine Word University Madang. Got some short clips around the campus and thought I could share. Keep on tinkering!
The task of building Papua New Guinea’s National Transmission Network
(NTN) – the country’s internet backbone – is a work-in-progress.
How is the NTN progressing and what expansion can we expect this year?
What are prospects for reduced prices and improved stability?
What opportunities is the NTN opening up for businesses in PNG?
What are the prospects for greater competition in PNG’s ICT sector?
In this online briefing, we get the bottom of these and other questions.
Our participants:
Paul Komboi, Managing Director, PNG DataCo Ltd
Dr Amanda Watson, Research Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs,
Australian National University. (Together with her University of PNG and
Divine Word University colleagues, Dr Watson runs a rolling pricing
survey on the cost of mobile data in PNG.)
Moderated by Andrew Wilkins, Publishing Director, Business Advantage
International
This blog post is a result of the incredible number of views I've noticed on this article, Cisco VOIP Phone Setup in Packet Tracer, I shared some years back. I have had numerous requests to share the file and have done so but that is only just an initial basic setup.
I have since done some updates to this tutorial and have created a series of video tutorials which I share on my Youtube page.
To ensure best network design and implementation practice is followed, I decided to throw in VLANs and InterVLAN routing into the mix. This is to ensure that Voice traffic is put into its own VLAN. You can later add QoS (MLS, CoS) if you want to which is necessary if you're doing this in an actual physical implementation. The main idea behind this series of videos is to help you begin off with a blank Packet Tracer network, setup the network, configure basic settings, configure VLANs, and then interVLAN routing, and finally end with VoIP functionality added to the network.
You can now easily follow through this series of video tutorials to learn how to configure VLANs, InterVLAN routing and VoIP. I decided not to narrate the videos. If you want to learn about the concepts please visit the Cisco Learn site or take networking classes offered on Coursera, Teachable, or the many other sites that do this. My main objective is how to do it, not the why you do it this way, many courses out there will help you learn the theory.
How to make the most of this tutorial?
Open a blank packet tracer file, begin with Part A and follow along. You can pause and play the video as you setup and configure the network.
Part A: Setup network
Part B: Configure basic settings for devices / Part C: Configure VLANs
This
blog post updates ongoing monitoring of mobile internet prices in Papua
New Guinea (PNG) by presenting data for the second half of 2020. For
background, see an earlier post at the start of 2020 that suggested an overall decrease in prices from mid-2016 to late 2019, and a post in mid-2020 that showed no change in the first half of 2020.
Since the start of 2020, price
offerings have been noted each Monday using menus in mobile telephones.
This method captures pricing changes within one week of them being made
available to consumers. The main motivation for this research has been
to monitor whether there is any noticeable change since the Coral Sea Cable System was officially launched in December 2019.
I have been seeing a number of issues lately on Facebook that fall in the category of cybercrime. What's interesting though is that many people either do not know that there exists a PNG Cybercrime Code Act 2016, or they simply don't know what specific offense it comes under and the severity of the penalty. Furthermore, there is even a National Cybersecurity Committee that started during the 2018 APEC through an MOU between Australia and the PNG government. It continued even after the APEC to provide wider cyber security coverage across a range of GoPNG agencies. Organizations within this committee include NICTA, DCIT and OSCA.
It would help ordinary PNGeans to at least know the different forms of cybercrime divisions and specific offenses captured in this Act. Having that knowledge informs our general populace to be able to take action when they see or hear about cybercrime.
I created an infographic summarizing the offenses listed in the Act and what divisions they come under. Details of these offenses and their related penalties can be found in the Act (pdf) itself. You could even visit the PNG Law Review site to know more about the Act.
Sharing this achievement of 30,400 reads, 4 international citations, and recommendations on an article I and my friend and mentor late Prof. Peter Anderson published in the DWU Journal 3 years back. This was my first publication that would not have come through if it wasn't for his constant support through typesetting and proof reading. This article we wrote together will always remind me of him. It wasn't easy and will never be easy but I thank you for all that you have taught me.
Airi, P., & Anderson, P.K. (2017). Cisco Packet Tracer as a teaching and learning tool for computer networks in DWU. Contemporary PNG Studies, DWU Research Journal, 26, 88–108.
Sharing this in memory and honor of my dear friend late Professor Peter K. Anderson.
Our principals:
International Standard
Pastoral Care
Community Engagement
"Cor ad co loquitur: Heart Speaks to Heart" is a phrase taken from a letter from Saint Francis de Sales to one of his spiritual directees. A phrase that he wanted us to embody in every aspect of our teaching life. To be a great teacher, you have to speak from your heart to the heart of your listener.
I will be forever grateful to the Good Lord for the work He has done through you in my life and the lives of all the young men and women especially in this beautiful country of PNG that you dedicated your 18 years of live and service to through DWU.
I brought my 5 year old one-piece to the office today and after completing his daily math homework and doing a bit of drawing, I decided to give him some easy-tac adhesive. Beginning of this year I've spontaneously begun to give him and the elder sister math and spelling exercises weekly and leave them with what I call a 'tinkering project'. I give them some random objects and tell them to create something out of it.
So this morning after his homework I gave a small piece of easy-tac and just told him to do something with it. He came with an interesting thing which I could not work out at first what it was. I had to ask him to explain to me what he came up with in his tinker project. He then explained to me that what he did was a model of the corona virus. I laughed at first wondering how a 5 year old would even know what the virus looks like but then remembered that this was a product of what he sees everyday on the news, the posters, the paintings on the fences in town and perhaps the posters in front of the Diwai Mart. I immediately knew that children as young as him observe every thing around them, whether it be good or bad, and they like to imitate or replicate that in their own way.
Figure 1. Raymond with his Corona Virus Model
Figure 2. He explained that the white was the core or the nucleus and the spikes were made out of toothpick.
On Tuesday 13th
January 2021 my wife and I decided to walk out to the nearby Gov Stoa market, just outside the DWU front gate. It was around 7.30 in the morning
and usually women from this settlement, and nearby Kerema compound bring their
goods to sell at this makeshift market early before the sun starts giving off
its first strong rays. We bought some stuff and were about to head back when
she saw an elderly lady selling smoked fish laid out neatly over small patches
of banana leaf on top of a container. She was casually waving what appeared
like a magic wand over the fish to make them disappear, no (I had wished that
later on during the day) she was just making sure the nasty little Musca domestica
(scientific name for House flies..hehe)
were kept at a safe distance from the fish.
