Bon Jour France From Pahoa

When your a WordPress blogger, you get reports about your blog. I knew there were a lot of local people reading my blog, but I find it curious that I have a reader from France that is converting my blog into French for reading. So Bon Jour to my reader from France.  I hope you [...]

Youtube Pulling Videos vs. Local Folks Pulling Them

I understand the copyright laws that required the youtube folks to pull down my recent KO video of last nights fight.  UFC owns the footage and people tried to avoid that copyright…including myself, by adding that recent video. I still wonder who enforced the recent take down of the other youtube videos I wrote about [...]

BUMP – TMT Poll, Qmark Questions and the Superferry (A Darker View?)

*Bump* See Bottom- ——– I find it curious that the same polling company, Qmark is repetitively receiving what I can only guess as lucrative contracts for certain companies and their polls that always seem to favor them. The recent poll about the Thirty Meter Telescope project in todays Tribune names the polling company that the [...]

Walk-In Voting Begins Tomorrow

Just wanted to remind everyone that Walk-in voting begins tomorrow and runs until the 18th. Big Island Open Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. » Elections Division – Hilo Iron Works Building, 1266 Kamehameha Ave., No. A-1 » Kona Elections Satellite Office – Alii Plaza Building, 75-143 Hualalai Road, No. 103 Open Monday [...]

Yuen on The Concept of Creating a Commercial Core: Kona 1 Rest of the Island ??

I don’t know how I missed this earlier today: …On a community level, Silbanuz said the Health Department is working with county planning departments, developers and others to create new neighborhoods and retrofit older ones with “complete streets” that can accommodate cars, bicyclists, pedestrians and the disabled. The Healthy Hawai’i Initiative arranged for an expert [...]

Today’s KO From Last Nights UFC 88 Rashad Evans Vs. Chuck Liddel

2008 Aotearoa Film Festival Features Hawaiian Film Na Ono O Ka Aina (Delicacies of the Land)

My Mother and Father-in-Law recently spent the last two weeks as part of a small Hawaii Delegation for the 2008 Aotearoa Film Festival down in New Zealand. The film Na Ono O Ka Aina (Delicacies of the Land), a production of Na Maka o ka Aina was featured there and my father-in-law was in it.  [...]

Future of Hawaii Renewable Engergy Projects Uncertain

I’ll just bump you over to this very important Advertiser article.

“Project Better Place” Coming to Hawaii?

I wrote about the Plug-In cars that are coming to Hawaii from Idaho National Laboratories the other day. Project Better Place sounds like something similar, and is currently in negotiations with the State to try and get it’s electric cars here in the islands. With the automobile industry lobby, and US driving habits keeping doors [...]

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