Of course I’m going to consult our university’s attorney, but wanted to see if this started any interesting discussions. For my MA thesis, I transcribed (in music notation and text) the recorded musical performances of John Kameaaloha Almeida. John passed away 18 years ago, and a couple of the songs were written as recently as 1977. I want to post the transcriptions as .pdfs on the web, but not sure if it would possibly constsitute a copyright infringement. Are transcriptions of copyrighted songs, with their inherent limitations and possible errors, copyrightable themselves? I’m also going to try to contact John’s…
Slashdot also points to an internal Apple document
that offers battery replacements for older iPods for $99. Good news for those too squeamish to open up their iPod themselves. Unfortunately for European users – this doesn’t apply to you.
iPoding.com points to a site that has replacement batteries for iPods for about $50.
So things are not as bad as they may seem in the iPod world. The video still is pretty darn funny, though perhaps not to Apple.
iPod’s Dirty Little Secret – An Unreplaceable Battery That Lasts 18 Months!
Boy, am I glad I didn’t buy one of these when they first came out. I wonder what this will do to sales. I hardly consider a $400 dollar piece of hardware a consumable or disposable product. The question now is will Apple a) make this situation right and fix or replace the bloody thing beyond its warranty, or b) sue the guys who did the video and make them take it offline. I’m guessing it will be b.
Normal programming to resume shortly on Radio Keola as I finally finished my MA thesis and successfully defended it.
The title? Nā Hīmeni A John Kameaaloha Almeida: He Kalailaina Hoʻohālikelike Me Ke Kālele Ma Luna O Ka ʻOkoʻa O Ka Puana Kamaʻilio A Me Ka Puana Hīmeni (The Songs of John Kameaaloha Almeida: A Comparative Analysis With Emphasis On The Differences in Spoken and Sung Pronunciation). Web version to come soon, but it’s only available in Hawaiian, and will probably remain that way.
Funding announced for University Education through Irish
The President of NUI Galway welcomed the announcement on Monday (3 November), of funding of EUR 1 million over three years, to support the special Academy being established by the University for teaching through Irish. Congratulations. Our College of Hawaiian Language teaches all upper division and graduate classes through Hawaiian.
Don’t know if this is true or where it came from, but Hawaiians can relate.
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training. One day, a Navajo grand elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks. The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the NASA people: “What are these guys in the big suits doing?” One of the astronauts said that they were practicing for a trip to the moon. When his son relayed this comment the Navajo elder got all excited and asked if it would be possible to give to…
Watch your language if you want a home in West
This is cool. Want to buy one of these new homes in Connemara? You have to speak Irish.