I’d like to see Safari RSS offer the option to use the aggregator of your choice (my is obviously NetNewsWire is my choice) when encountering an RSS feed in a page, rather than Safari.
I was interviewed by the Honolulu Advertiser for this story on Ulukau, our online Hawaiian library.
The library has grown tremendously in the past few months, and is only going to get bigger and better as time goes on.
I got a very postive reply to my inquiry to the University of Sheffield in England.
It sounds as though my desire to spend a year abroad and then making subsequent visits to their campus aligns well with their Joint Location Program. Also, one of their lecturers has taught at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I’ve also sent an inquiry to the University of Oxford. Of course, my first choice remains the music program at “Cork”, but they have still not replied to my inquiry. It’s not going to be feasible for me to enter any program until fall of 2005, but I’d like to identify and apply to programs by the fall so that…
Slugger points to a very compelling argument against making Irish and official EU language.
There do seem to be few valid reasons to do it, other than they can and it would make people feel good.
It looks like George W. got three of four letters correct, and for him, that’s pretty darn good.
It was Iran, not Iraq, stockpiling weapons of mass distruction. An honest mistake. (NOT!)
I’ve sent out a number of inquiries regarding Ph.d. programs in Ethnomusicology.
In Ireland the most promising locations seems to be “Cork”, and I’ve also emailed the music departments at “Cambridge” and University of Sheffield. Hopefully there will be a response soon. Are there any other potential ethnomusicology programs in Ireland or Great Britain worth investigating? I’ve been told that Belfast has a good program, but the political and social problems there make it less appealing. I’m also not that keen on being in a major city like Dublin or Belfast. Cork seems to be the most appealing, but I’ll entertain other suggestions. University of Sheffield‘s program is also appealing in that…
The fallout continues from the firing of UH President Evan Dobelle.
It was inevitable. A lot of us began speculating when Dobelle would be forced out after Governor Lingle was elected in 2002 (Dobelle publicly endorsed Democrat Mazie Hirono in that race). In retrospect that probably had less to do with it than his constant feuding with the Board of Trustees, and I think that blame needs to be laid equally with the board. The hostility flowed in both directions. Dobelle didn’t seem to want to be accountable to anyone but himself, and the board seemed to want to put him on a short leash. What is most interesting that the…
Crime high at Kalama Park.
This news is a bit distressing to me, and a side of Hawai’i that the state doesn’t like visitors to hear about. I spent a significant percentage of my youth at this park. Our home was about a half-mile away. I would walk or bike to the park to play basketball or tennis, and stay into the wee hours of the morning. During my time on MPD (early 80s) I found out that someone who attended Kihei Elementary school around the same time as I did was selling drugs from the park’s parking lot. I had a chat with our…
Two years ago today my wife and I arrived in Dublin for a month stay in Ireland.
I documented the trip, in Hawaiian, to fulfill a requirement of the MA program I graduated program from last December. We have fond memories and met some great people there. I’m still hoping that something will come through for us to return. No reply from anyone at UC-Cork yet, but we’re hopeful.
Minor correction to the post below – Scoble graciously replied to and forwarded my request for help.
Unfortunately the forward appears to have vanished into a black hole. Mahalo, Robert. The effort was appreciated.