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Kokua at Windward Mall
Had a good Friday at Windward Mall with two instances of kokua. Thanks to the Starbucks barrista for the ice cold half and half and preshaking my drink.
And thanks (surprisingly) to Champs Sports for letting me get my Bright Cactus even cheaper!
Supporting “Perpetuating Our Traditions”
The 57th Cherry Blossom Festival is themed “Perpetuating Our Traditions,” and we are now supporters, buying a shirt and program guide.
We’re rooting for Tanya Masunaga to make the Cherry Blossom court.
Help with Twitter: Multiple Accounts
After twuating a bunch of Twitter names, I now have a problem of managing these various accounts. Most of these twuats aren’t frivolous. Some are experimental to see what local businesses can do with Twitter. Some are to introduce the power of social networking, and some are simply to protect a business’s twats from twuating.
So is there an easy way to monitor these various accounts for any possible conversations? Currently, I log into each account via the web to see if there are any @replies (direct messages work fine since they’re emailed). On the iPhone, Tweetie makes it convenient to quickly switch to different accounts, but I still need to manually make the switch.
It would be so much easier if the timelines of the various Twitter accounts could be aggregated into one “master” account. Logging into that one master account, I’d see the tweets and replies of that account but also all the @replies for all my other “sub” accounts. But that’s just one implementation. I’m sure there are others.
Any ideas?
That’s Some Tough Soccer Defense!
Did you catch the Hawaii State Championship soccer matchup between Mililani and Iolani? There was some tough defense played like this…
SDV Fail (Sorta)
My recently installed SDV tuning adapter failed me tonight during UH’s win over Fresno State in men’s hoops. The cable signal just stopped, and I wasn’t receiving all the stations. Weirdly enough, the freebie HD channels were there (1003, 1006, 1007, etc) but nothing else. After being on hold with Oceanic for a long time, the rep told me to disconnect and reconnect the USB cable.
That did the trick. Didn’t have to power cycle the actual unit. Pretty random and strange “outage” that only affected some stations. At least the Rainbows won though I missed most of the game.
Sharing Big Files with MobileMe
How timely! Apple’s MobileMe got a feature upgrade allowing users to easily share big files with others. After uploading a file to your MobileMe iDisk, you can share it and get an accessible URL for the file. You can even assign a password and expire the shared file for added protection.
I needed to send a 20-MB PDF file to someone but email wouldn’t allow it. So instead, I shared the file using MobileMe and sent the user the public link. Cool!
Only in Hawaii – Spam Singles!
This can only be in Hawaii. Single slices of Spam packaged up for sale at your local supermarket, in regular and lite versions!
You never know when you need Spam on the go.
SDV Tuning Adapter Installed!
Bright and early this morning, an installer from Oceanic Time Warner showed up for the installation of my SDV tuning adapter. The overall install took a long time since the thorough tech checked signal strength throughout the household. Once that was done, the installation of the SDV tuning adapter was quick.
The boot up of the tuning adapter took longer than the unboxing and connecting of the device itself. The adapter I got? It’s a Cisco STA1520 which Engadget showed some time back.
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The installation and cost of the tuning adapter is free, and what do I get from this box? Not much. I now get a few additional digital channels that Oceanic converted to SDV, but I’m not paying for additional premium stations or packages. I might get the HD pack for $7 a month which I could not receive without the SDV tuning adapter. So now I got options of paying Oceanic more money each month!
Does iLife 09 Mess Up Quicksilver?
I’ve installed iLife 09 twice now (with the multi-user Family Pack of course!) and on both occasions, Quicksilver got messed up. Quicksilver is installed and still working, but it looks like its catalog of apps gets jacked.
Invoking Quicksilver to startup apps doesn’t bring up the correct app. For example, trying to run “Disk Utility” to correct disk permissions, I type in control-space to envoke QS then enter in d-i-s-k. Disk Utility is usually the top choice but not anymore. Not sure what’s up. Rebuilding the QS catalog fixes this so it’s not a permanent mess up, just an inconvenient one.
LOST at Miki’s
Earlier in the week, LOST was seen setting up behind the Pearl Kai Shopping Center. Today, they moved down the road a bit to Lehua Ave and Fourth Street and took over the tiny Miki’s food stand. Better known as a late night hangout offering ono grinds at 2 am, this stand was transformed into a taco bar by the LOST production crew. Here are a few pics.
If you’re lucky, you can catch tonight’s filming, and no, I don’t know if Miki’s will be open for late night business after the shooting.