Category: Miscellaneous

It was a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. As feared when I left, there are plans afoot to relocate my old office to Singapore. And there’s no guarantee...

The lie. Older lies. A brand new lie to add to the collection. And of all people, he shouldn’t be complaining about revisionist history. Remember the good ol’ days, when “I did not have...

Japanese television. Ping pong. And low-budget bullet time. (Windows Media Player required, but for once, worth it.)

“I stopped this poor girl in an SUV and said, ‘You’re not going to believe this, but I’m a police officer and I need you to follow this cab.’” Now that’s a great story....

They call it “Microsimulation of road traffic with a time-continuous model.” I call it “Lunalilo Freeway.” If only there was a way to expand the applet to add something ridiculous, like, say, the Vineyard...

I wasn’t a big fan of Al Gore, to be sure. But I really don’t get it. Not a single journalist or talking head would let anyone forget the whole “I invented the internet...

It’s always interesting to watch Something Big(tm) unfold in real time. Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean has been riding a remarkable wave of support, much of it pouring in via the Internet. His success...

As Beth would say, “We’re famous… in a local paper sort of way.” The Honolulu Advertiser today ran a pretty darn good article on geocaching, triggered in part by reporter Michael Tsai’s discovery of...

In the latest issue of Dateline AAJA, the quarterly newsletter of the Asian American Journalists Association, there’s a brief overview of the Asian American publishing world in the wake of the spectacular collapse of...

A commentator today on NPR had an epiphany as he walked out of one movie theater showing Pixar’s “Finding Nemo” into a crowd leaving another theater showing “The Matrix.” You see, the closing credits...

In Apple’s Stickiest Marketing Ploy, Wired News reports on the longstanding obsession Mac fans have with Apple logo stickers. As I started to read it, I started to feel bad for finally taking my...

Got an e-mail from Kim via Donica pointing out a recent “Talk About Ethics” column by Bob Steele at Poynteronline. Entitled The Faces in the Picture, it was yet another essay on the Jayson...

After getting some tech advice from a couple of friends, I was able to encode and post online a RealVideo clip of the Channel 2 News (KHON) story on geocaching. I’m the dorky guy...

A condemnation of the Bush tax cut plan from unexpected source: “Putting $1,000 in the pockets of 310,000 families with urgent needs is going to provide far more stimulus to the economy than putting...

Confused? This essay by Ken Mondschein might help. (Don’t read it until you’ve seen it, though — it’s spoiler-riffic.)

Nifty. Grabbed a Coke with my SushiMan lunch, and won a free hat. Since Katie’s the NASCAR fan, I had Coke mail it to her.

Maybe my my modest contribution to the May Day Project was just an appetizer. Someone in the Olympus C2100UZ user group I just joined posted a link to the America 24/7 project. Spearheaded by...

Hot off the overworked Wal-Mart photo studio ink-jet printer, proofs of a set of portraits Jen and the kids took this morning in Daytona Beach. Note Katie’s toothless grin, and Zac’s ever-increasing cuteness (and...

Okay, I’ll bite. I’ll probably be as successful at this as I was at NaNoWriMo, but, who cares. Photo memes are fun. Since I’ll be spending most of the day out and about, almost...