I was talking to a neighbour in the building the other day about various things. We have construction work happening on the building, so we discussed that. We also talked about the person parking at the building who doesn’t live there (resulted in a very painful morning for me …

After searching for alternatives to Flickr, I’ve finally chosen SmugMug. I’m also using this as an opportunity to clean up my disorganized photo collection locally before publishing to SmugMug. As I move things around locally and publish to SmugMug, I am removing the same content from Flickr. I …

This could be user error, but so far no one has been able to explain to me this change. rhythmbox-0.12.1 in Fedora 11 was the last version to come with the GNOME panel applet icon. It offers a context menu to play or pause and to skip tracks …

I have a tool bag with my most used tools that don’t have their own box (e.g., socket set). I went with the tool bag mostly because it’s easier to transport than a toolbox, doesn’t weigh as much as a toolbox, and gets rid of the …

Back in the spring of this year, Pepsi announced a release of some special products for a limited time. Adding ‘Throwback‘ to the name of Pepsi and Mountain Dew and maybe others, they released versions of their soft drinks made with real sugar instead of HFCS. Like they do in …

Today was the first day of exterior repair work that is happening on our condo building. They are repairing spalling all over the building including the lanai on every unit. After that repair work, they are repainting the entire building. Probably just a fresh coat of beach front beige.

I …

Living in Hawaii brings a lot of our friends and family by. We represent slightly less expensive accomodations for people who want to visit. That’s cool because we enjoy visitors.

Everyone comes here and wants to do the things they hear about in Hawaii. I usually play tour guide …

My family is still here (they depart on Monday). We took them around the island over the weekend. I took Wednesday off and went snorkeling with them. Karen spent Thursday with them. We took them to a luau last night. I think they are having a good time. I wish …

It’s the fourth of July as I write this. The other day I posted a status update on Facebook about Canada Day, except I posted it on the 2nd. Thinking the lateness comments on my status update were jabs at my timezone, I reiterated that point in a comment …

Today is the annual ARRL Field Day event. The club I am a member of in Honolulu (the Emergency Amateur Radio Club) will be operating two stations from the North Shore today. I do not know if the club will be using a single callsign or if we will be …