Moving day was this week. We moved Hawaii 24/7 back to our .com domain for the website. We did this because we are no longer a non-profit and became a commercial corporation earlier this year.
So update your bookmarks folks and change those .org extensions to .com
aloha,
Baron
This is the map Google has on its blog talking about its experimental fiber optic network. You’d think they would have had a better map by using Google Maps. The Big Island looks kind of funky.
That’s the motto for the group that created the USB connector.
I guess they never had to deal with actually finding and plugging in the right USB cord to connect or charge a device. And for each of those below there are corresponding male and female connectors. Such a hassle to have so many cords and power supplies just because devices have different USB connectors.
Can’t we just have SuperSpeed Wireless USB and inductive charging already?
This year the music will stop and the one left standing without a chair will be the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
The announcement today is of Oahu Publications Inc. buying the Honolulu Advertiser and putting the Star-Bulletin up for sale in two weeks must be blow to my friends at both daily newspapers as they try to read the tea leaves into the future.
I had often imagined the big Kapolei printing plant by Gannett on Oahu being like the Death Star becoming fully operational with the Star-Bulletin playing the part of planet Alderaan. The Advertiser seemed hell-bent at times on getting rid of the Star-Bulletin (I’m not talking about the Tiser’s editorial staff, I’m talking more marketing and management but hey, they have bosses and shareholders to answer to).
Will the Star-Bulletin find a buyer? I find it hard to believe they will in this economy.
Do the employees have the balls to buy the paper themselves and run it? It would take more than balls, it would be a huge gamble with life savings in a bad economy as newspapers are not cheap to run. There’s no way they could just turn it into an online paper and support the number of staff members they currently have. Everything beyond content creation would be cut if they went online: printing operations and circulation with delivery people.
Could Peer News buy the Star-Bulletin? I doubt they would in it’s current state. They’ve made it quite clear they don’t want to have a paper product. I could see them wanting to buy the name…didn’t some airline want to do that with the name ‘Aloha Airlines’ recently? I see both the Tiser and Peer cherry-picking reporters from the Bulletin staff.
Frank F. Fasi will be rolling in his grave if the Star-Bulletin closes. Fasi always hated the idea of a monopoly with a one newspaper town.
A friend gave me a memory card she found although it appeared blank because it was formatted erasing everything on it. Being the techie I am I ran a recovery application that recovered the images shot onto it.
Now the card needs to find its owner. I sent four images over to Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures and hopefully the owner or their family/friends will see the images and contact the site so we can mail the card off to the rightful owner.
I’m not going to reveal too much about the memory card except to say it was found in Hawaii but it looks like the images were taken somewhere else, maybe in New York?
Here’s one of the photos below. Recognize anyone?
Update: The camera that shot the photos looks like this below
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T1
Tempura, Teshima-style.
Had the annual Teshima’s birthday lunch but this time instead of driving to Kona we cooked it up ourselves in Waimea. Not all of it shown in these photos as I was too busy eating. Tempura purple sweet potato, carrots, yellow squash, zucchini, onion, shrimp, namasu, rice, miso soup, dipping sauce, green tea and something not served at Teshima’s, red velvet cake.
This was a ton of food and I had to take a break before the cake. Next year we’re gonna have to invite more people or cook less food. I think I ate enough tempura to last me a year…unless I drop by Sekiya’s. I usually get the teriyaki beef & tempura combo at Teshima’s. The tempura we made came out pretty darn close if not the same as Teshima’s.
Birthday cake for Aquarians.
Slice of Red Velvet cake.
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