Hawaii Blog

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I had to be at work at 5:30 a.m. this morning, since Mainland vendors seem to forget just how far west Hawaii is, time-zone wise. Still, an early morning link sent me to this...

My new job doesn’t take me to the exotic, international destinations that my old job did, but it is taking me to Hilo next month. So, I’m taking my whole family. Jen and the...

No notice. No explanation. Unbelievable. Buzznet deleted my moblog. (The photos syndicated at right are now coming from my backup moblog at apparently superior rival TextAmerica.) Usually you’d expect this kind of complaint from...

The scary part of this craigslist post is that he’s only mostly kidding. I thought I was insane to mess with maybe eight or nine of these “social software” sites, and he’s gone and...

This is truly for geeks: Yahoo! has unveiled a beta of its RSS Headlines module for My Yahoo! users. This means everyone will soon be able to use the customizable Yahoo! portal page to...

Two little pink lines, a lot of panic, and finally, joy. I guess you could say we’re just keeping up with the McPhersons. And yes, we are insane, thank you very much.

Anyone catch the Discovery Channel “Mythbusters” episode that explored explosive decompression in an airliner? If you did, you probably noticed that they used an old Hawaiian Airlines jet, retired and otherwise rotting away in...

We joined the omni-advertised Netflix DVD rent-by-mail service in April, and have seen 51 movies since. That works out to about six flicks a month, making the monthly fee worthwhile — especially factoring in the...

Beauty. Bullets. Intrigue. A great global collaborative filmmaking project tells the tale of “Lady X” as she initiates missions all around the world. In Episode 10, she comes to Kane`ohe, courtesy local filmmaker Dustin...

Zac threw my cell phone into the bathtub yesterday. Katie rescued it from the drink, but not in time to save it. Driving into town today to buy a new phone, my van started...

“As a threshold matter, the material aired during the ‘Golden Globe Awards’ program does not describe or depict sexual and excretory activities and organs.” So notes the esteemed FCC, recently ruling that there’s a...

In the world of cartoony characters with an adult streak, there’s obviously one to skip this weekend. (And there’s lots more where that came from.) But there are few things I’ve been looking forward...

di · verse adj. 1. Differing one from another; 2. Made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements. Hmm. Could’ve fooled me… [via

The other shoe has dropped for my former place of employment. Most of my friends already got out alive, fortunately, but I’m feeling for those who haven’t.

We interrupt this blog with a brief commercial announcement (of sorts). Know anyone looking for a great PDA? I’m finally releasing my baby to the great unknown. This great color Handspring Visor Prism comes...

I created a little table of ASCII codes that should display Hawaiian diacritical markings (the ‘okina and the kahakō) on a web page for my friend Andy, but I figured I might as well...

Newsweek puts $87 billion in perspective. The New York Times devotes dozens of delicious column inches to a great travel piece on sleepy Hilo. Reading it made my heart ache.

Since he’s just put in for an extra $87 billion to spend on his mess in Iraq (a bit of it set to go toward stabilizing his last mess in Afghanistan — remember Afghanistan?), it’s...

On the eve of the end of an incredible era of scientific accomplishment and discovery, The New Yorker published a wonderful tribute to the little satellite that could. The story of what it took...