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About Us

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Hi there, my name is John Hayward Napo. 

By day, I’m the IT man for the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) Office, based in Majuro, Marshall Islands. I look after the technology needs of the office, which manages the tuna fisheries of its eight member countries: Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu. My work involves servers, networks, support calls, and more than a few flights. When your job spans that much ocean, you learn to work from anywhere - airport lounges, hotel desks, and at our PNAO Office Building at the Uliga Dock, in Majuro Marshall Islands.

By night (and on those long flights) I write here.

My book: I'm also the author of Came and Gone in a Splash,  a simple and hopefully moving story for you about custom, love, identity, and loss, set in the peaceful but culturally rich village of Kekede. It follows Posa, the son of the village chief, and Khome, a girl raised by whales, as they grow up together, face the pressures of family and village life, and are eventually parted. It's available in paperback on Amazon and on kindle. If you enjoy the Pacific stories here on hogiboes, you'll feel at home in Kekede.

What you'll find on hogiboes:

  • Bible - Occasional reflections on faith. It shapes how I work and how I travel, so it belongs here too.
  • IT Stuff - Practical notes from the field: what breaks, what works, and the fixes I wish someone had written down for me. Real-world IT management across the pacific region and not just the terminal/cmd.
  • Tools I actually use - Honest deep dives on Notion, Obsidian, Claude, Kimi.ai, and Codex: how I use them, how they compare, and where they fall short. Workflows that survived contact with a real job.
  • Pacific Travel - Stories, tips, and photo-worthy moments from hopping between islands across the Pacific. Supporting 8 member countries means I get around — and I take notes.

Why "hogiboes"? We are from Hograno District, Isabel Province, in the Solomon Islands. We've been living in the Marshall Islands for the last nine years (2017–2026), and somewhere along the way my four boys started getting confused — was home Honiara? Was it somewhere else in the Solomon Islands? One day they asked me where we're really from, and whether that made them half Solomon Islander, or half of some other province. My answer was simple: we are Hogi boys. Your mother is from Hograno, I am from Hograno - so you are Hogi boys. No half, no nothing. The boys now have a little sister, but the answer hasn't changed: we all come from Hograno.

This site isn't a company blog or a polished publication. It's a working notebook kept in public — part documentation, part travel journal, part faith journal. If something here saves you an hour of troubleshooting, helps you pick a tool, or inspires a trip across the Pacific, it did its job.

Questions, corrections, or your own island-IT war stories? Reach me through the Contact Us page.

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Halo oketa — welkam lo hogiboes.
(Hello everyone — welcome to hogiboes, in Solomon Islands Pidgin.)