Every once in a while an interesting tidbit on the Hawaiian people or Hawaiian culture shows up linked on the CNN.com website, but today there were two. Hawaiians revive ancient sport — lava sledding and Hawaiians turn to native healing.
Migration woes.
I spent the past several days trying to get the data moved over from my old PowerBook G4 to a newer one. I had about 60Gig of data (a lot of raw audio) on that, and wasn’t surprised that it didn’t go flawlessly. Apple’s Migration Assistant tool is cool, but the transfer froze not long after it attempted to move my own account over. A friend at Apple suggested it might be file corruption, and that’s exactly what it turned out to be. I never actually identified the offending file, but did narrow it down to a folder that had…
Irish music is cool in Clare.
“Wayne Webster wandered along the only street in the tiny village of Feakle in western Ireland, clutching his fiddle and looking for a place to play. It was after midnight and the catchy rhythms of traditional music spilled out of the town’s four pubs, but there was barely elbow room anywhere, let alone space for another fiddle.” Sounds like I’m missing a great summer for Irish music in Co. Clare.
Home Sweet Home.
I got back to Hilo last night after four days on Maui, a week in England. That doesn’t include the 30 hours of travel and layovers each way between Maui and Sheffield, which featured a total of five planes and five trains. The International Council For Traditional Music conference was incredible. My presentation well, but I had a Homer moment and forgot to turn on my iPod/iTalk combination prior to the start of my presentation, so no audio. Actually there was a bit of a distraction as one presenter before me insisted on using her own computer, forcing me to…
Cheerio! (Pt. 1)
Wow, what a trip so far. I went online about 7PM on Monday to check the status of my 11PM United Airlines Maui-to-San Francisco flight, and found that it was going to be delayed four hours. The kind United customer service agent I talked to on the phone sensed that there might be further delays, which would cause me to miss my connecting flight to London. He got me one of the last seats on a Maui-to-LA flight, which left a half hour sooner, and got me on a connecting flight to S.F from there. Both of those went smoothly,…
Dave has shipped his OPML editor…
and it’s Win only for the time being. The Mac version is “coming real soon now.”
Scoble wonders what kind of contests Microsoft will do around Windows Vista.
Hmmm, how about guessing how many known-but-unfixed security vulnerabilities there will be when it ships? Kind of like guessing how many jelly beans there are in a 100 gallon aquarium. Sorry, Robert. My inner Macintosh bigot-demon got the best of me this morning But I promise I will never utter another Microsoft joke if it ships with support for Hawaiian, including a keyboard, sort order, date formatting and the other goodies that ship with OS X.
Podcasters Shutdown on .Mac.
I was about to unsubscribe from Geek News Central‘s RSS feed when I came across this interesting tidbit. I know a few people who were taking advantage of the previously unmetered bandwidth on their .Mac sites for hosting podcasts. One was hosting his latest shows on his .Mac site for the big rush, and then moving them over to his ISP when the initial new show rush was over. I haven’t asked if his strategy has changed. I know the owner of the ISP I use personally, and haven’t heard a peep from him about bandwidth issues, so I probably…
Who’s your great-great-great-great granddaddy?
[ From the NY Times, subscription required ] I found a copy of this article sitting in the waiting area of my daughter’s piano teacher. It talks about the works of Carl Czerny, a student and later assistant to Beethoven. What was interesting was to see the musical family tree drawn along the side of the article. Apparently Mālia’s piano teacher comes from the same line as the author of this article. Here is the lineage: Ludwig Van Beethoven \/ Carl Czerny \/ Theodor Leschetizky \/ Arthur Schnabell \/ \/ Leonard Shure Sundling \/ \/ Glenn Jacobson \/ Malia Donaghy…
Irish Music Podcast #1 is online.
Unfortuntely I’m at home on dialup, and the podcast is 31 meg, so I’ll have to wait until I get into the office tomorrow.