October 2005

Wired.com has an article about weblogs being filtered out at the workplace. The primary driver for disallowing blog access at work is the fear that “employees might leak sensitive material… while posting comments to blog message boards.”
Understandable. I just hope they don’t implement that policy where I am.
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Today’s Honolulu Advertiser has an interesting article about the growing popularity of coffee and coffee drinks in the United Kingdom. In fact, the steady increase of coffee is making an impact on tea sales.
Starbucks has something to do with this shift. Starting with a single store in 1998, the Starbucks chain now has [...]

Tagged as: coffee, starbucks

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Ate dinner at Los Chaparros, a new Mexican restaurant in the McCully area. Los Chaparros translates to “the shorties” and is run by the transplanted shorties, Mario and Lisa. The interior is spacious with a decor featuring an Aztec calendar and indoor fountains.
The food is tasty starting with plentiful chips and salsa (yes, free [...]

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With the list of suspects getting shorter, the Carver gotta be Christian’s girlfriend, Kimber. Who else could have the planted evidence from the last episode “Granville Trapp?” Also, that dream sequence with Kimber before Christian was freed must have foreshadowed something. Christian did say that everyone he trusted turned their backs [...]

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Just found out about it today in the paper…
Mactoberfest!
Date: Oct. 22, 2005
Time: 9:00 - 1 pm
Location: Kapi’olani Comm. College Cafeteria
Join us for our annual Mactoberfest. Swap meet, refreshments, speakers! Fixit Clinic or demo (TBA). Door prizes throughout the morning. Email Kimo Sutton kimos@mac.com if you’d like a swap meet table - free for HMAUS members, [...]

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Going to try out a new Mexican restaurant, Los Chaparros, in the McCully area. Here’s a map provided by Yahoo!

Map ofLos Chaparros2140 S Beretania StHonolulu HI
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The Iolani School Bulletin, Fall 2005 issue, arrived in the mail today. Flipping through it, there’s a big section talking about Elements Spa & Salon on page 72 (PDF file available). I couldn’t find the class notes about the opening of the wildly successful Club 939! What an outrage!
Stew, did you forget [...]

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Just some pics of soon-to-be-released kicks.
P-rodDe la Soul DunksZoom Team Editions (Raiders No Ka Oi?)Flight 89 with Jordanesque elephant print (white and black).Nice!

Technorati Tags: Kicks

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The October 17 issue of Time magazine has a cover story on the world’s most innovative company, Apple.
Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong, yet it keeps turning out great products. TIME looks inside the world’s most innovative company.
Although the on-line version of the article is not yet available from Time, them crazy Canadians have [...]

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Starbucks is creating a stir by putting a God-filled quote from the Rev. Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, on its cups.
Here is the quote:

“You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never [...]

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Today’s Apple Special Event wasn’t as exciting as the previous one with the video iPod. Today, we see the release of updated PowerBooks at a reduced cost and new PowerMacs. The PowerMacs continue to use the G5 PowerPC chip with the G4 in the PowerBooks, but the PowerMacs feature dual and even quad [...]

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Jakob Nielsen, a well-known web site usability expert, lists his top ten design mistakes for weblogs. Here’s a non-detailed list:

No Author Biographies
No Author Photo
Nondescript Posting Titles
Links Don’t Say Where They Go
Classic Hits are Buried
The Calendar is the Only Navigation
Irregular Publishing Frequency
Mixing Topics
Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
Having a Domain Name Owned by [...]

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With the start of the NBA coming around the corner, a vendor is selling custom iPod cases featuring the logos of NBA teams. Too bad sporting an iPod with headphones violates the NBA’s new dress code for players.
AI in business casual attire? Sorry, can’t imagine Iverson covering up his tats.
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Listen to this mellowed out version of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s Baby Got Back. Can barely recognize the memorable song lyrics from this tune.
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Speaking of self-promotion, you gotta love a guy with the gumption to sup up a 89 Dodge Caravan minivan and race that thing. Funny thing is he’s beaten folks on the racetrack.Here’s the rear view of the bad a** minivan.I wouldn’t do that to our Toyota Sienna. At most, I’d pimp out the [...]

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Some guy actually collected old security posters that many of us at work are familiar with. I haven’t seen the ones mentioned in his article, but some of them are just plain bad.
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Read two interesting articles in today’s Honolulu Advertiser Business section. The first article talked about self-promotion, aka bragging, to get ahead at work. Kinda sounds like Kazuo’s mantra of “I may not be much, but I’m all I think about.”
The second article looks at how typical office cubicle farms are undergoing changes to [...]

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Drove out to Waipahu to look at baby gear at USA Baby. Before going to the store, we stopped off at the Poke Stop, run by Chef Elmer Guzman formerly of Sam Choy’s Diamond Head Restaurant. Food is good but pricey.
For dinner, we tried Ige’s Restaurant and 19th Puka in Pearl City. [...]

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Mark Cuban, the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, blogs about how the new Disney CEO, Bob Iger, can be credited for saving network television. With Disney/ABC partnering with Apple to offer television shows downloadable via iTunes, Bob Iger has changed the economic ball game of television and commercial advertisements.
A very interesting read with [...]

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