Hawaii Blog

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...

Hey, check it out. Mah boy and I are the day’s featured “Hot Model” over at Dr. Scott’s! Scott rocks. The undeserved compliment he gave me is exactly how I’d describe him. The rare...

“White House officials originally said that Bush was making the dramatic jet trip because the ship was too far out to sea to be reached by helicopter… But the carrier was just 30 miles...

Just a quick note to welcome Keith back to the journaling fold. He took a break even longer than mine, having last posted a note in November. But he returns with a new domain...

Look at who the current featured cover models are over at the excellent Windward Skies Photography & Design site. (Permalink here.) Photo taken with a Lomo, which are pretty cool, by Lisa, who is...

There’s an article in today’s Star-Bulletin covering the chorus of criticism hurled against the new UH logo project, highlighting the online petition. And of all the messages posted to it, they had to go...

Turns out the decision by George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign to relocate and reschedule the G.O.P. convention to coincide with the next Sept. 11 anniversary in New York is problematic for more than...