This page documents what exactly ‘Hawaiian Language Support’ means in Mac OS X, with screen shots. We’d love to have all of this in Windows as well. This is the original announcement from August, 24, 2002, a date burned into my memory forever. Some of the information in it is outdated – Office 2004 for Macintosh applications now support Unicode, and therefore support Hawaiian.
I was truly saddened to learn of the passing of ‘Elama Kanahele.
She was a true gem of the language, a native speaker of Hawaiian, and treasured teacher. Her passing is deeply felt in the Hawaiian language community.
Still No Joy In Hawaiian With Windows.
Several months ago a few people pointed me to this Windows Keyboard Layout Creator. I’ve finally gotten around to looking at it, and unfortunately I don’t know if we can use it. In this app you have to specify the language that the keyboard will be used with. As Hawaiian is not listed as a supported language in Windows, it appears I would have to specify another language (like English) to display. What is it going to take to get MS to recognize our language? I think we’ll start an online petition drive and see if we can get enough…
My mother’s sister in Philadelphia can catch ‘Ros na Run’ and has started taping for me.
Low-tech, yes, but still effective. Our email exchanges were interesting. Like my mother’s other sister, she thought that Irish was simply the heavily accented Hiberno English that she had heard spoken by Irish immigrants in Philadelphia. Nope, Irish is not even in the same language group as English. I’ve heard about how immigrants to the U.S. have learned English by watching American soap operas. Maybe it’ll work for me with Irish.
Now this is a beautiful picture of snowfall in Tipperary, Ireland.
[ Link from IrishEyes ] Maybe one of these years I’ll experience it for myself. Also, report in from Minnesota CyberBug (AKA my sister June) – it was a mere minus-36 in Bemidji, and school wasn’t even cancelled. At minus-13 she takes off the jacket outside, and when they hit the plus side of zero she digs out the bikini. And this is a woman who grew up in sunny Kihei, Maui.
Minus 54 in Minn?
I have a sister in northern Minnesota, Bemidji to be exact. I’m waiting for a weather report from her.
FrequentFlyer does bring up another good point about miles.
When airlines go into bankruptcy, the value of your miles is in doubt. While no previous airline bankruptcies have led to loss of miles, and the miles of their FFM programs were accepted by other airlines, there is no guarantee that this will happen in the future, and no insurance programs to guarantee that you will be able to use them. Something to think about. As low as the dollar does go, at least it’ll be worth something.
I agree with Scott’s rants on the iPod – call it iPod envy.
Then why am I still sans-iPod? As great as I agree they are, and while the manufacturing costs probably justify the price, I just can’t see myself laying out the kind of money that they are asking for the hard drive-based units. Changing priorities as I get older, I guess. My personal priorities, those outside of family and work, are health and Ph.d. Most discretionary funds are being reserved for the possibility of #2 abroad. I’ll probably get our daughter an iPod shuffle for her birthday in April (and hope that she never sees this post), and may eventually get…
The state legislature is gearing up for the 2005 legislative session.
Senator Kalani English mentioned a bill that would strengthen the use of Hawaiian language in government documents. I helped him put together a bill that was introduced last year; unfortunately it went nowhere due to the very high-visibility legislation that had to be dealt with. I hope he can get some movement on it this year.
The new currency?
Scott points to an article on the Guardian website that talks about the value of frequent flier miles in these days of the weak dollar. I’ve been reading a lot on this topic and trying to bump up my miles in United’s program. FrequentFlier.com is a pretty good site for information on maximizing your miles. A few months ago I found another site that I cannot relocate at this point. It allowed you to explore the many conversion options to move miles from one program to another. I had about 11,000 miles in Continental’s program that would have expired in…