Month: May 2008

Keola’s del.icio.us bookmarks for May 16th – May 18th

These are my links for May 16th through May 18th: Does the ‘Real’ Ireland Still Exist? – “Over the years, I have spent a lot of time in the western counties of Galway and Clare, and if nothing else, this is what I have gleaned: Ireland can be that place you missed as you traveled around Ireland, looking for Ireland.” (From the New York Ti Leslie Wilcox Blogs: John De Fries' Always-Full Glass – Hawaii Island businessman John De Fries always has the same answer to the "Is the glass half-empty or half-full?" question. Read Leslie's post for the answer.

Steve Cisler Passes

I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my good friend Steve Cisler today. Steve was a champion of community networking for many years and helped countless individuals and communities, including our Hawaiian language community. The director of our Hawaiian Language Center and I met Steve at a community networking conference in Honolulu in 1993, when we were looking to start a Hawaiian language bulletin-board service for the immersion schools. He showed us FirstClass, the software we used to create Leoki, and continue to use to this day. He lent us (in his capacity with the Apple Library…

But Does Google Translate Team Answer Emails? No.

This blog post espoused the additions of several new languages to Google Translate. Congratulations to advocates and speakers of those languages. What the post doesn’t say that when someone representing an endangered, indigenous language found in the political US, like Hawaiian, contacts the team offering to do a translation for that language no response ever comes. I have sent an email using the coordinator’s email address as found on the Translate In Your Language page at least a dozen times expressing the interest of our College of Hawaiian Language in providing a translation, and have not gotten a single reply.…

Seasons Change In Dunedin

This is the first real change of seasons that Marie and M?lia have ever experienced. By US mainland and even Dunedin standards it still has been relatively mild. We’ve had some nights drop below 30F, but by and large the weather has been tolerable. It seems that things will be fairly stable for the next two weeks, then a steep drop in temperature around May 25. We found out that the timing of our trip to Queenstown could not have been better – there was a considerable amount of snow there a few days after we left. The one aspect…

If You Put That Picture On The Internet I’ll Call My Lawyer

view original Originally uploaded by Jeremy Brooks This might be considered “piling it on” as this guy has already been flogged pretty well online, but it was too hard to resist. Jeremy Brooks photographed this guy verbally abusing a homeless person in the Bay Area (for good reason, perhaps), but when Jeremy took the shot the fellow got physical and threated to call his lawyer if the pic found its way on to the Internet. He followed it up by trying to grab Jeremy’s camera. Bad move, Fonz. Or is it possibly Andrew “Dice” Clay’s younger brother? Hard to tell.…

Chaiten Volcano, Chile

Volcan Chaiten X región, Chile Originally uploaded by bilobicles bag There are some amazing pictures coming from the eruption of the Chaiten volcano in Chile. You can view more on this story from the Daily Mail in the U.K. We will reportedly see some spectacular red skies sometime next week here in New Zealand as a result of this activity.

Keola’s del.icio.us bookmarks for May 8th

These are my links for May 8th: Island Cultures Research Centre – The ICRC’s brief is to research and analyse the nature of island cultures in a manner that will assist local cultural activists and regional, national and multinational organisations. SICRI – Small Island Cultures Research Initiative – SICRI was established in 2004 to facilitate communication and collaboration between researchers and cultural practitioners working with small island communities.

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