I only steal from the best. When I noticed the format Dave started using on Scripting News, I quickly mimiced it for my Hawaiian music website, NahenaheNet. The format is now commonly called – a blog! The earliest entry on this page is 10/21/97, but I know I was doing it earlier as well, but definitely after Dave started it. The link above is an old archive page still on the server from the days that I used Frontier’s website framework to maintain the news. Now I use Manila, and FTP the page over to my static server. So people…
We won, I hope.
Yesterday our faculty, staff, students, friends, family and supporters turned out to rally support for our underfunded, understaffed College of Hawaiian Language from the university system’s Board of Regents, and have them hold the university president to his promise of “full funding of historic Hawaiian studies requests.” Our demands – new permanent faculty and staff positions, a new building, and full funding of programs that have been run on grants for years, and now need stability. We got the commitment we sought, now all we need to is see if it actually materializes. Other coverage in the Hawai’i Tribune Herald…
Men like gadgets, women like make-up.
“”In cyberspace, no one may know you’re a dog, but it’s depressingly easy to tell if you are a man or a woman, depending on the internet sites you visit,” says Karlin Lillington. “What do men buy? Consumer electronics, sporting goods, computer gear, including hardware, software and peripherals, cars and accessories, and – but of course – video games.” For me, delete sporting goods and video games, and add music and music-related gear.
Clan of 10 studying Hawaiian
Here’s the touching story of 10 members of a single family studying Hawaiian language together at Windward Community College of O’ahu. Makes you feel a little better about the future of the language.
Great Big Sea DVD on the way!
My favorite Celtic/Rock band, Great Big Sea, will release their first concert DVD with a ton of goodies on November 4.
eMusic Download Privileges Curtailed.
Karlin reports that eMusic has gone from allowing unlimited downloads to only 40 per month for their $9.99 monthly fee. While it still sounds like a good deal compared to iTMS’ $0.99 per song, I don’t know if I’m ready to bite. I’ve also heard that there are a lot of tunes up there that cannot be download outside of Europe, but don’t know that for sure.
Irish Studies Online!
I was stoked to find this site online, and plan to investigate it further. With my the receipt of my MA in Hawaiian Language and Literature just around the corner, I’m looking for a new mountain to climb. This looks like small mountain, but maybe just a warmup. I’m really want to get back to Ireland for an extended stay, maybe up to a year, to continue study of the language, and also study the efforts being made to assure the perpetuation of Irish Gaelic. All signs point toward National University of Ireland at Galway, and coincidentally it is through…
Guinness offers stout defence for recall of thousands of kegs!
Saints preserve us! 178,000 kegs of potentially below-standard Guinness nearly make it to Europe and the US. I haven’t had a decent pint since we left Ireland last summer. I tried a pint of stout at a pub in Honolulu (Kelly O’Neill’s), but it definely wasn’t the same. Even in Ireland, it seemed the further we got from Dublin, the less I enjoyed it.
Governor Arnie?
Now that California has the Governator, I’m wondering which of these will happen first: A) there will be a new recall petition put in place to remove him, or B) someone will begin a movement to amend or remove Article II of the US Constitution, Section 1, Clause 5, which states “No persona except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”
Welcome To The 21st Century, Scott!
My old Maui buddy, Mac guru and favorite caracture artist Scott Waters has finally got himself a blog, one of the new iBlogs. Scott’s responsible for the incredibly handsome caricature portrait of me to the right.