by Lance Hunt | Nov 11, 2021
Way back in 1980 on this very day, 11th November, my wife and I were walking through the very large Indooroopilly Shoppingtown in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was around 10:59 in the morning, when a voice surprised us as it boomed over the public address...
by Lance Hunt | Nov 10, 2021
There’s a yacht that arrived a couple of days ago, and is now moored in Port Vila harbour. They just got fined around USD5,000. (!) It’s a classic story of what can go wrong when you don’t have local knowledge. None of the 3 people on the yacht...
by Lance Hunt | Nov 8, 2021
News this week that a second undersea communications cable will shortly be laid, this time between Vanuatu and Honiara, Solomon Islands. So we will have backup for undersea cabling, as the original one connects us to Suva, Fiji where it joins the trans-Pacific...
by Lance Hunt | Nov 7, 2021
Rain is softly falling as I write. Of course, almost everywhere in the tropics there are basically 2 seasons, “the Wet” and “the Dry.” It seems that we are entering “the Wet” now, which is not surprising. “The...
by Lance Hunt | Nov 6, 2021
Last night I had a Zoom meeting with two of my colleagues. As usual in this business, we were in three different countries. What is interesting is that one of the participants is big in the Crypto space, and has a deep insight into how crypto owners view the...
