Doing a periodic look at Pulpconnection stats via Google Analytics brings to light some interesting facts. According to top keywords, I have learned that this site amounts to:
So Pulpconnection is all about Hawaii female news reporters, a naked Harry Potter, and Club 939. Wonder what that says about me?
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Thinking about a setup of an 20-in iMac dual screened with a 20-in Cinema display and another setup of a PowerMac connected to a Studio Display. Then the old PowerMac G4 with failing power supply can be retired.
Oh, that education promotion sale is still going… free iPod Nano… $99 off of a printer. Get the new iLife ’08 with the new iMac. Sweet deal (if I proceed).
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Remember Local Kine Grindz? Not the on-line recollections of an enginerd in Hawaii, but the local television show featuring Bruddah Sam and Lina Girl sampling Hawaii’s various eateries. What a scam angle they had – in exchange for free advertising and publicity, Sam and Lina got to eat all the (free) food they wanted. Brilliant!
Anyways, while looking through a vintage collection of VHS tapes, I came across this gem of Local Kine Grindz visiting Kin Wah Chop Suey. It goes something like this…
Poor pops-in-law got subtitled!
Yup, I now got 10 gigs of storage with my .Mac subscription!
With these gradual improvements, I guess I’ll hold on to my .Mac subscription for a while longer.
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Thanks to live blogging of Engadget and MacNN, I’m keeping up with Apple’s Event. So far, an improved .Mac service has been announced (haven’t looked at the details yet), new aluminum iMacs are out, and Steve Jobs is demoing iLife ’08.
It looks like iMovie now does a video clip library that I’ve wanted for some time. How else can you manage a hodge podge collection of video clips?
iWeb has been updated to include mainstream features and now integrates with Google services. You can add Google Maps and AdSense ads into iWeb-created pages and sites. Supports domain names too. Wonder if you can sync iWeb sites from more than one computer. Right now, I couldn’t (easily) use two different computers to edit the same iWeb site.
.Mac storage got a boost going from 1GB of space for subscribers to 10GB! Good thing, I’ve been storing my blog images on my .Mac account and space was getting low. This 10x increase is good.
It’s over. No more “One more thing…” to end the event. A Q&A session is going on now.
So I’m thinking a new 20-in iMac would match my 20-in aluminum Apple display currently connected to my PowerMac… the iMac must do dual video right? So then I’ll need to replace my 20-in display with something…
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Look what showed up for pre-order on the iTunes Music Store? Kanye West’s latest collection called Graduation. 15 tracks for $9.99, available on September 11, 2007.
Features collaborations with T-Pain and Coldplay’s Chris Martin.
No wonder the iTunes Store sold over 3 billion songs, surpassing Target and Amazon for the number 3 spot in music sales.
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So Tina Shelton already left. Ron Mizutani is leaving in August to join Hawaiian Telcom. Linda Brock left to join Makaha Studios as sales and marketing director.
Finally some good news for KHON2 with the birth announcement of Sean Clarke (sp?), the new son of Trini Kaopuiki. Of course, Trini could also leave to become a full time mother…
The Zutto cometh, and now the Zutto breweth.
With a measly 83% addiction to coffee, I had to improve my score. 83% is a B grade, bordering on a B minus and you know No Ka Oi alumni, a B minus is like failing! Can’t have that! So to up my score, I went looking for a new coffee maker.
I was shopping for a smaller coffee maker since our Mr. Coffee 12-cup coffee maker is ginormous, and the last time I made 12 cups of coffee was, well, never. So while looking on Amazon for reviews of small coffee makers, I stumbled across the Zutto made by Zojirushi. This is the same company that makes those fancy fuzzy logic rice cookers. So I figured if they can make rice taste better then they can make coffee taste better.
The Zutto EC-DAC50 is a 5-cup coffee maker that does a great job with the joe. The flavor of the coffee is balanced and consistent every time. With my Mr. Coffee, there would be good days and there would be bad days of taste. I’m sure the cone type filter (#2 size by the way) has a lot to do with extracting the most flavor from the grounds. Or it could be the longer brewing times. The Zutto is slower making the coffee but not by much. The full five cups takes about 8 minutes of brewing time. Or maybe the better taste is from the built-in carbon water filter. I’m not exactly sure but the coffee does taste better, and that’s all that really counts.
The water tank of the Zutto is removable, and I didn’t see the big deal initially. But now I get it. It’s way easier to clean out the removable tank instead of relying on a rinse of vinegar to clean out the water scum.
In the Amazon reviews, there were complaints that the Zutto made warm, not hot coffee. The coffee is hot enough for me, and I’d say freshly brewed Zutto would scald my tongue.
The main downside of the Zutto is the cost. A typical 4-5 cup coffee maker costs around $20. The Zutto is $65, three times as much. But then again, reviews of other small coffee makers were all over the place. The Zutto reviews were usually 4 or 5 stars.
And the Zutto makes a great gift for coffee drinkers who don’t down gallons a day.
Addictions are powerful so why should you have to change your addictions based on geography? Of course you shouldn’t, and that’s what Starbucks and McDonald’s understands.
These giants are global and peddle their addictive wares to you anywhere. Need a caramel macchiato while in Hong Kong? Don’t worry, Starbucks got your covered. For 32-Hong Kong dollars, a grande caramel macchiato is yours (I think the exchange rate is about 7.5 HK$ to 1 US$, making the 32-HK$ drink about $4.25 which is an okay price).
Don’t like the mainstream feel of a Starbucks? Then you can visit the fledgling McCafe line of McDonald’s and sample some different items. Stuff like a Long Black or Flat White (hmmm, I don’t know about these drink names). For non-coffee drinkers, you have your McCafe choice of Water Melon Juice and Citron Honey Frappe.
And look at the cleanliness of the Hong Kong McCafe. Spotless and all lined up for the long blacks and flat whites.
The mystery identity of the Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ) who writes the great caricature over at The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs has been revealed. New York Times writer Brad Stone did the sleuthing and revealed FSJ to be Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine.
Where did the inspiration for this blog come about?
I thought, wouldn’t it be funny if a C.E.O. kept a blog that really told you what he thought? That was the gist of it.
Known or unknown, it doesn’t matter to me. The writings of FSJ are funny and interesting in the light that Daniel Lyons has no insider sources at Apple. Everything written was extrapolated from on-line news sources and personalized with the voice of FSJ. That’s some great, creative writing.
I wonder what FSJ would have said about the recent Honolulu Advertiser article about Makaha Studios? This isn’t a controversial piece directly related to Apple, but I found the article’s picture enjoyable. The young, creative minds are all using MacBook Pros while the veteran sales director has some kind of Wintel box.
And oh hey, FSJ will continue to live on but now will be a feature of his employer, Forbes.
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My favorite font (of the moment anyways), Verdana, lives on. Believe it or not, this great font was made and distributed by Microsoft as part of its core Windows fonts, and Apple has been licensing its use for some time.
Both companies renewed their font licensing agreements so Verdana will continue to live on in the Apple world.
To me, Verdana is easy to read at small sizes and looks good big too. And it’s something different than looking at Arial again and again in presentations. Here’s a sample of Verdana.
