There must be robots or spiders sweeping the blogosphere to find places where gross entries can be made in unguarded comment sections. I’m ending my short experiment with unreviewed comments after about 100 spam comments, mostly offering various sexually-oriented items or services. A few are obviously just trying to create more links back to some [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2009
Monday (2)…Unmoderated comments are a failed experiment
August 31st, 2009 · 3 Comments · General
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Monday…A Byte into rail, racism against Micronesians, UH administrative salaries, UHPA calls for admin freeze
August 31st, 2009 · 4 Comments · General
I’m sorry I missed the recent Bytemarks Cafe about light rail featuring architects Scott Wilson and Peter Vincent. The Bytemarks blog has a brief description and, luckily, a link to an MP3 recording of the program, so I was able to catch up with their discussion. You can too. And thanks for all the comments [...]
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Sunday…Long Gone bits of honolulu
August 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · History, John Lind Collection, Photographs
Interior of Kau Kau Korner. I’m guessing, from the context of other photos it was stored with, that it dates from around 1940, although it could be later. It was found, along with a few other photos showing the interiors of Honolulu eateries of the day, among the papers saved by my father, John M. [...]
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Saturday…More photos from Kamehameha Day 1944
August 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments · History, John Lind Collection, Photographs
I found several more photos from the celebration of Kamehameha Day on the beach at Waikiki in 1944. [The initial entry can be found here.] This is another view of the photo published on Wednesday. Comparing with other photos, I identified the large man on the right as Gene “Tarzan” Smith, a colorful figure in [...]
Friday (2)…New Superferry background, newspaper layoffs continue in San Diego, bedbugs, and Feline Friday
August 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Cats, General, Photographs
Thanks to the Hawaii Superferry unofficial blog for flagging a very revealing interview with the CEO of Austal, the company that built the Superferry ships. In this interview, CEO Bob Browning describes the Superferry deal as “very unusual”. Austal, an Australian company, was looking to compete for U.S. military contracts, but needed a shipyard in [...]
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Friday…Kamehameha Day 1944
August 28th, 2009 · No Comments · History, John Lind Collection, Photographs
I think I’ve further identified the event associated with the photo of Duke Kahanamoku posted here on Wednesday. This is a follow-up photo of a Kamehameha Day Celebration on June 11, 1944, sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. And here’s the back of the photo, with caption identifying it as an official U.S. Army [...]
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Thursday (2)…Among my dad’s “treasures”
August 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Aging & dementia
I’m still working my way through the detritus of a long life left behind in my dad’s bedroom after he was taken to the hospital last November and then moved directly into a nursing home. It’s draining, beyond simply the physical activity. It’s an intimate process, trying to decipher the meaning of different items and [...]
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Thursday…A friendly exchange about Honolulu’s rail plan
August 27th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Politics
I received an email from a friend yesterday on the rail issue. He wrote: just for your edification: the city rejected at-grade light rail because (a) it would have to run on existing roadbed and compete with other transportation (b) it would require short trains and defeat the idea of large-carrying-capacity transit from the west [...]
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