Hawaii Blog

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Justin.TV is a week old, and is taking the web (or at least the hyper-interconnected Web 2.0 startup crowd) by storm.
The concept is simple enough: Justin Kan, 23, is broadcasting his life live on the web, 24/7, via streaming video. Watch him visit tech companies, and watch him use their bathrooms. Watch him [...]

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In a word, bliss.
Now, even as an Apple fanboy, I concede that Apple TV was overhyped in some quarters. At least I knew going in that it was a simple device with a simple mission: deliver media from iTunes on my computer to the TV in our living room.
As a bit of [...]

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My family loves “Dirty Jobs” on the Discovery Channel. The concept could have gone in some really unpleasant directions, but host Mike Rowe really makes it work. Mike has filmed several segments in Hawaii, visiting a taro farm, a micro-algae farm, and a volcano dream sequence for a California-based mud bath.
From the beginning, the [...]

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Early last month, Mynette Louie of the Hawaii Film Blog posted an official notice from the Hawaii Film Office about the inadvertent destruction of film from two Hawaii productions. I immediately e-mailed around trying to confirm that “LOST” was one of the productions affected, but — at least as far as lowly bloggers are concerned — no [...]

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While I wait for my Apple TV to ship, I was more than happy to try out the new Amazon Unbox on TiVo service.
In short? I was surprised at how easy it was. The DRM is a serious downer, but that’s not something easily avoided in a mass-market service. I’m really looking forward to hooking [...]

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Huh. We were watching an old episode of CBS’ mathematical crime series “NUMB3RS” on the TiVo. Charlie (David Krumholtz) randomly throws out this piece of trivia: The ZIP code 12345 exists, and is assigned to Schenectady, New York.
Intrigued, I found this bit of trivia:
There is a growing problem that the USPS is very concerned with, [...]

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Twitter is great. Don’t get me wrong. I use it all the time, ever since I got sucked in last November.

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What seems (and remains, for some) an inane, pointless, geek plaything has taken the Web 2.0 world by storm. It’s been called a “microblog” (thoughts too minor to warrant a full blog post — [...]

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Jen and I had a rare night out yesterday to attend a benefit reading for the Honolulu Theatre for Youth featuring several cast members from ABC’s filmed-in-Hawaii series “LOST“:
Matthew Fox (Jack), Terry O’Quinn (Locke), Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Michael Emerson (Ben) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet).
I dare say it [...]

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A Twitter update by Burt reminded me that I wanted to revisit my review of iLike from last October.
The folks at iLike are doing great things, adding great features all the time, keeping users informed via the iLike Team Blog. Service has been smooth and stable, the interface has been refined but remains [...]

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After a 34-year career in local television news, veteran reporter and anchor Leslie Wilcox is moving behind the scenes and taking the reigns at PBS Hawaii, Hawaii’s public television station headquartered in Manoa.
Coworker and friend Ron Mizutani produced a sweet, five-minute tribute to Leslie’s impressive career in local news, beginning with her days at [...]

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