I really need to get my act together and update this site on a more regular basis. It seems I alternate bursts of activity between here and Nahenahe.net, and Nahenahe has been receiving all of the love recently. I have also spent a lot of time helping my friend and songwriting partner Kenneth Makuak?ne get his website launched in anticipation of his upcoming CD release, which will feature anywhere from 10-15 of our joint compositions, in addition to a few that he has written himself or with others. We’ll be performing together (or more accurately, I’ll be backing him up…
“If you’re a PC user, these ads are more likely to irritate you than convert you.”
Dave points to this piece from Slate on the latest Apple ads. My take? Who cares what PC users think. Ask the children of PC users what computer they want to own. Never underestimate the power of a nagging child, and the lengths that a parent will go to to silence them.
FUD in the Senate debate over the “Akaka Bill”
I watched the Senate debate via C-SPAN2 to for a while. Senator Akaka presented his case clearly and respectfully, but I had to turn it off after a few minutes of listening to Senator Lamar Alexander building a wall of FUD over the issue. Senator, you simply can’t compare immigrants who arrived and the U.S. willfully and the indigenous peoples who had no say in their government being overthrow and land annexed against their will. Alexander harped on the term “sovereignty” so many times and in such a way as to suggest that that the bill would result in complete…
The truth is out…
Last year I pointed to Kenneth Makuak?ne’s weblog and speculated who his anonymous collaborator at UH-Hilo was. Well, Kenneth’s let the cat out of the bag, and I don’t mind – it’s me. It has been an amazing process, and hard to believe we’ve been at it for over a year. Sometimes I write lyrics to his music, sometimes he sets music to my mele, but there is always a lot of give and take. I always run the mele by my colleagues at UHH, a process called paka, to make sure that there isn’t anything in there that could…
From the mouths of babes…
I was testing out a brand new Sony DV video camera at my daughter’s piano recital today, and another parent came up to me and asked if we would be willing to make a copy of the tape for them. I told him that we were planning to copy the video to computer and make DVD copies for everyone if the recording came out OK. There was a young lad, perhaps six or seven years old in the seat directly behind me, and he asked if we had a Mac or PC. When I told him it was a Mac,…
The Evil That is Coca-Cola
A well-intending colleague of mine posted this on our office’s internal discussion board today, along with another passage that espoused the value of drinking water. I know that some of these are urban myths, but it was an interesting read. In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the “real…
Code Monkey
Every once in a while Conn at An tImeall finds a gem of a podsafe song and includes it in his podcast. Such was the case with Code Monkey. Give it a listen, just don’t have any food or drink in your mouth when you do or it could find itself violently ejected via your nostrils.
MacHelpMaui Finds Its Stride
Scott at MacHelpMaui has a new podcast up with his new partner Carmen Gardner, and I must say the magic is back. I emailed Scott last week, suggesting that he was perhaps losing the focus on MacHelpMaui by harping on Microsoft and Windows’s problems, and providing less useful Mac information on his podcast and blog recently. Apparently he took the nudge to heart, and they combined to put out MHM’s best podcast in a while. Listening to Scott explain some of the Mac’s lesser known functionalities to Carmen and following along was great. I think it was much more effective…
Beo! Turns Five
The online Irish language magazine Beo! is five years old this month. A special concert will be held on Wednesday, 10 May in the Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin to celebrate these first five years. The doors will open at 8.30 p.m. and guests will include the Irish language rock group Na Fíréin. Tickets will cost €8 and €6 and will be available at the door on the night. For more information, call (01) 675-3658.
MS in Human Language Technology
There is a new new Master of Science program in Human Language Technology (HLT) at the University of Arizona.The program is currently admitting students for fall 2006; the deadline for admissions is May 20, 2006.