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June 7, 2003 - Saturday
A friend recommends the biographical sketches available at http://www.hawaii.edu/biograph. She started with Harriet Bouslog and then started grazing through the varied offerings.
Actually, all the bio's are fascinating. To read the full bio, and they are quite rich, do not click on the photo (which gives a short bio), but on the name typeset below in the ochre section, which will reveal wondrous delights of detail.
Neighbor & occasional cat-sitter David stopped by to visit. Of course, all our neurotic cats made a beeline for the cat door and the safety of the outdoors, so we were shocked when Ms. Wally immediately threw herself quite literally at David's feet. Shall we call her Wanton Wally? She apparently knew something we didn't--in his eyes, she's a very special cat and really gets the treatment. He immediately started with the petting, then the scratching, then the brushing as she rolled and stretched with obvious joy. She was close to being out of control as her happy paws hit escape velocity. She's clearly been pining for us to leave so that she can get this get this special handling from her pal, David.
| With the change in seasons, we're no longer out and walking before dawn. Right now, and for the next couple of months, the sun rises before 6 a.m., while we're getting ready to leave the house, so we miss the glowing reds and oranges that are so familiar throughout much of the year. Now we're greeted with something different but still wonderful. This is the view from Swanzy Beach Park looking up the coast beyond Punaluu and Hauula towards Laie. |
June morning in Kaaawa
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June 6, 2003 - Friday
That batch of Kahoolawe photos have been getting quite a workout since they were posted last weekend, recording well over 10,000 page views between Sunday morning and yesterday. That's the busiest week this site has ever had.
One person responded:
mahalo nui ian for sharing these images which let everything come real; and, mahalo for being there; witnessing. sharing. Patriots all.
If you haven't run into it already, do check out Kurt Vonnegut's column, Strange Weather Lately. At age 80, Vonnegut is still able to cut through the b.s.
And thanks to Mike Leidemann for his column describing life with "Moo Moo", a lap cat to rival Ms. Wally. Mike really caught important aspects of the person-cat relationship.
Jeff G. passed along this observation on the Washington Post's web site:
Interesting that the Post will not let you view anything unless you have cookies enabled. I tried it with "ask before accepting cookies" and I must have canceled out of more than 300 popup requests until I finally gave up. Why do you suppose they are so insistent?
June 5, 2003 - Thursday
The Star-Bulletin decision to put its online edition on a new schedule appears to reflect well on the new publisher, Frank Teskey, who took another look at what had been an entrenched management policy.
From our neighbor, Bob, a note of praise for a story in Sunday's Star-Bulletin:
i found it interesting that all the girls were interested and read the story in full on Jose on the front page of the star bulletin
something they usually don't do
they go straight for the funnies every sunday
they were fascinated with the question
what happened to Jose??
Also from Bob, a link to a story in Asia Times about the so-called Bilderbergers meeting and a comment:
Whats so astonishing to me is that I didn't see a single story about the Bilderbergers meeting ANYWHERE on web, either establishment (Times, Was. Post) or anti-establishment (Smirking CHimp, Alternet, etc.)
Good point, and an interesting story.
June 4, 2003 - Wednesday
The Star-Bulletin has relaunched its online edition, Starbulletin.com, with a redesigned main page and a new schedule.
To our readers:
Welcome to our first morning edition! Starting today, Starbulletin.com will be updated between 2 and 5 a.m., Hawaii Standard Time instead of in the afternoons. Stories that break during the day will be available in our Breaking News section, in the left-hand column of our redesigned home page.
--Ken Andrade, Webmaster
Frankly, I miss that large image of the print edition's front page that has anchored the home page until now, but certainly the new schedule will help the S-B to compete for effectively against the Advertiser's online product.
And, speaking of the Advertiser....
A manager who says his complaints about software piracy at Gannett’s Honolulu Advertiser led to his suspension by the newspaper has filed suit seeking reinstatement and unspecified damages.
In the lawsuit filed on May 16 in Circuit Court, former Advertiser website manager Scott Yoshinaga alleges the newspaper violated federal law by illegally installing unlicensed software on newsroom computers.
Programs specifically cited in the suit include Adobe Photoshop, Filemaker Pro, Extensis Suitcase, Macromedia Studio MX, Microsoft Office X, Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Drive 10, Norton Systemworks, and Discreet Cleaner.
According to the lawsuit, Yoshinaga complained about the alleged software piracy and then submitted a 2003 budget that included software needed to convert to the latest Macintosh operating system “and also be LEGAL” (emphasis in the original).
The company deleted the $18,748 that Yoshinaga had included for software licenses, and on May 12 he was notified that he was being suspended, a move which Yoshinaga now charges was “a direct result” of his complaints about illegal software use.
The lawsuit says Yoshinaga had been concerned about both personal and corporate liability in the face of federal laws prohibiting software piracy.
Yoshinaga was a management employee and not represented by the Newspaper Guild.
The Advertiser has not filed a response to the lawsuit and its allegations.
Ironically, yesterday’s Honolulu Advertiser carried an Associated Press story about the Business Software Alliance campaign against piracy.
June 3, 2003 - Tuesday
As expected, or feared, the Federal Communications Commission did its thing yesterday and approved sweeping new ownership rules.
The FCC only held one official public hearing, but the Center for Public Integrity reports that commission members and staff held dozens of meetings with corporate officials while considering the new rules. Common Cause has a good summary of the basis for challenges to the rules now expected from several quarters.
An Advertiser story this morning looked at the Emmis duopoly and the possibility of one or both of Honolulu's daily newspapers acquiring broadcast stations as a result of these new ownership rules.
"It's too early to say what impact there will be," said Dennis Francis, general manager of The Advertiser. He added: "The convergence of TV and newspaper under one owner will ultimately provide for better and more comprehensive local news reporting for both."
That doesn't seem to leave much question about Gannett's future direction.
| Colin Lind checked in from Dunedin, New Zealand, way down on the South Island. He sent along several photos, including this fine shot of Heywards Point.
We haven't identified any links between our Lind families, but it's still been interesting to have another contact down there.
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Photo of Heywards Point, NZ
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I inquired about the current weather. Here's his reply:
Down here June is supposed to be the first month of winter with frosts and even snow expected but so far the weather has been very mild.
Queens Birthday weekend (today is a public holiday) is the time we have a motorcycle rally to Central Otago known as the "Brass Monkey Rally" when the real men ride through frost and snow then camp outside in a field beside an ice skating lake to spend a night swapping tall tales and drinking spirits. This year it was shirtsleeves around the campfires.
I finally solved my photo woes (images lost on a corrupted compact flash memory card) with PhotoRescue, a bit of non-quite-free software that quickly located and recovered the otherwise lost files. I've added it to the small collection of essential photo utilities, along with the new Adobe Photoshop plug-in for handling Canon RAW files.
June 2, 2003 - Monday
Here's another site to put on your regular morning list--the Astronomy Picture of the Day, courtesy of NASA. Amazing daily photos along with scientific explanations. Quite cool!
The Sunday Star-Bulletin had some updated information on the Oceanic cable problems mentioned here yesterday.
| We stopped at Jeff Liu's Island Art and Framing over the weekend to have a couple of small prints framed. His main shop is now located on the Diamond Head-Makai corner of Nuuanu and Vineyard, in a small building on that corner next to a pizza joint.
One of our prints, found recently at an estate sale, is Hon Chew Hee's wood engraving, Sunday Laundry, which was the annual gift print of the Honolulu Printmakers in 1947.
Jeff's place does excellent work using all archival materials, and he's a very interesting character. Of course, it's also fun to rub shoulders with incredible island art, like the huge Lionel Walden seascape in the lower photo that sports a sticker price of $200,000.
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Jeff Liu
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June 1, 2003 - Sunday
If you've had trouble with your Time Warner-Oceanic Cable digital service in recent days, you are not alone. According to a message on the discussion list of the Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users Society:
Oceanic had sent out an software/firmware upgrade signal to the digital boxes, and something went kablooey. Whether it was a fault of the vendor, or Oceanic equipment, or something, but an incomplete upgrade took place and rendered HUNDREDS of boxes dead...just as yours.
So they are in the process of SWAPPING all the dead boxes out. Talk about major pie in the face...
Ouch.
More on the debate over pre-war intelligence on Iraq. The Guardian reports on the transcript of a secret diplomatic session now making the rounds, and doubts about the quality of U.S. intelligence. And Agence France-Presse, citing a report in U.S. News and World Report, quotes Secretary of State Powell at one point calling Bush administration claims "bullshit" (a French term, perhaps?). Interesting Sunday reading.
Still no success recovering photos off of the flaky memory card from yesterday. An initial try via the camera's cable led nowhere. Camera found, photos not. More retrieval efforts tomorrow.
| I'm not really finished with this set of images, but decided to plunge ahead and make available the work in progress. These are from the January 4, 1976 landing on Kahoolawe, the "first" landing, and its aftermath.. There are about 80 photos in this set divided into a series of indexes. You can jump between the indexes, then select individual photos, or just proceed through all the photos. |
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