Another pretender to exporting products out of Bali… another loser

So, here I go again — someone else ripping off Indonesia Export text and pictures.

…the name of the website is ombali… they’re using our text from the front page like this:

Selamat datang di Om Export International (or you can
read it as “Welcome to Our Place”).
We’ve just finished our two year on the Internet (thank you).

Customers are always asking us “what sells best” — so, based
on the actual dollar volume of product that we have sold during the past
six years, we’ve re-organized our products into three simple categories
(you don’t need to ask anymore).

In business for two years but what sells best for six years… great: a company that can’t do basic maths, can’t write original text and can’t take their own pictures. If you choose to do business with them, heaven help you (because we sure can’t).

Sean

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Performancing Extension

Just found the performancing extension for Firefox 1.5 — this is the first test but if it works, I’ll have to find ways to heap praise on the author (Chris Garrett).

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101 things to do with a coconut tree…

I was sitting in the office the other day and got my head stuck on one of the soundtracks from Reservoir Dogs… Harry Nielson’s “Coconut” (put da lime in da coconut, you drank ‘em both up… put da lime in da coconut, you drank ‘em both up… doctor, is there nuthin’ i can take — excellent song).

Got me to thinking about all the things you can do with a coconut tree — particularly here in Bali.

So, without further ado.

Sing about it: Harry Nielson did it — you can sing along.

Drink it: Head over to Jimbaran Beach (Bali of course) and order yourself baby coconut (kelapa mudah) — turns out to be fresh coconut, served in the coconut shell (with a straw for the juice and a spoon for the coconut flesh). I’m not sure about the health benefits of young coconut — if you google it, you’ll probably find it’s a cure for cancer (what isn’t?) but it’s tasty. Watch the sun go down and the lights come on at the Four Seasons bungalows… nice thing about that particular set-up is that the Seasons looks pretty romantic while you’re sitting at the beach while they watch you hoist your third coconut.

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Types of wood used in making Bali carvings