Category: Miscellaneous

One of my family’s most cherished documents is a 1962 article in the Honolulu Advertiser profiling my grandmother. While it just happened to be written during the brief period she was married to her...

From the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, May 17, 2004: “Irene Caitano Henderson – May 13, 2004 – Irene Caitano Henderson, 86, of Mililani, an Ilani’s Express Service owner in Kohala, Hawaii, died in St. Francis-West Hospice. She was...

Seeing as how, you know, I figured I wasn’t neglecting enough websites already, I’ve blown a good chunk of the last couple of weeks building another one. It’s one of those fancy message boards,...

Nifty! Facial pattern matching software plus a database of celebrity faces equals “who you look like… if the person looking at you is very drunk and very lonely.” Jen found the site, and sent...

Dear Governor Lingle: I know you are an advocate of the public charter school system, and I hope my fellow charter school parents and I can count on you to make sure it gets...

Good News: I got $80 from my stepbrother Eathan. See, I’m such a poor businessman, I never keep track of what my “clients” owe me. While this means I usually end up doing most...

Good news: Sex is good for you. And one imagines being “master of your domain” is included in the definition of “sex” for the purposes of this study. Bad news: Apparently lacking anything more...

Further evidence that it’s better for everyone that I gave up my MP3 addiction? Two songs that ended up on my hard drive tonight: “Bailamos” by William Hung, and a cover of Christine Aguilera’s...

Good News: Google, the super bestest whatchamacalit ever, has announced that it’s introducing a free web-based e-mail service, with neat features, 1GB of storage, and basically all kinds of stuff to make Hotmail and...

If you’re a news junkie, you’ve just gotta see this. It takes the already impressive news aggregation power of Google News, and presents it as a “treemap” — basically a visual representation of the top...

When you’re trying to get a project going, having it mentioned in the local paper is usually a good thing. As long as that project is actually running. Thanks go to Honolulu Adveriser tech...

Weird. Thanks to some partnership between Alexa and Amazon.com, this website has an ASIN, or an Amazon.com product number. Wanna write a review for B0000DK1XM? There are also listings for HawaiiStories (B0001CYQWU), HawaiiNews.com (B0000A3AHL),...

Huh. Look what I found behind my desk. The MakikiCam hasn’t been hooked up for a couple of years, at least. Check it out while it lasts… by the looks of it, the webcam...

A hearty warm web welcome to Beckett Dalton Berry, born this morning at Wahiawa General. Here’s to parenthood, and lots and lots of sleep!

There’s nothing sadder than an unfunny clown. I’m sure those comically-staged Oval Office photos are going over real well with the families of the 591 killed and 3,383 wounded while on his wild goose...

On the heels of the glorious news that it took a bunch of zombies to push that Jesus guy off the cinematic throne comes word that another blasphemous film will be returning to the...

And just like that, I’ll be flying a redeye to Los Angeles tomorrow night in order to meet with some folks here. I hope I can contribute in some small way, and do something...

By random chance, I crossed paths online with someone from StirTV, “the first show for and about Asian America’s next generation.” I’d never heard of ’em before, and they’re pretty new, but it turns...

Eerie. Greg was just e-mailing me about how the Alamo Drafthouse — the awesomest movie theater chain ever — is finally starting to set up franchises outside Austin. I wrote back saying, “Well, we’ve got too...

A fun article in today’s Honolulu Advertiser on the often non-functional crosswalk buttons at Honolulu intersections. (It’s a localization of this piece in the New York Times.) I think it’s a little muddled, though....