How to drastically improve your cellphone signal. I gave-up my landline telephone years ago and have been using only a cellphone. But one of the problems with the magical iPhone 3G is that I can’t get AT&T service in Hawaiian Paradise Park. Actually a roomate had a Palm Treo and he couldn’t get an AT&T [...]
CSI on a jet fighter crash
Amazing photos of a jet crash in Canada. The still photos reveal all. http://tinyurl.com/298n2zk Look at the nozzles on the jet’s engines. The port (left) nozzle is wide open indicating that he was really thrusting on that. The starboard nozzle is in the closed position meaning it flamed-out and wasn’t pushing any air through. Also [...]
Buffalo on a bun
I try to patronize local food vendors if I eat out for some local support. I’ve had the corn guy and chicken guy’s offerings from Hwy 130 near the Eagles in Kea‘au for nice dinner fixings. I kept driving past this Hot Dog Guy along the highway and decided it was the day to give [...]
Taro Dreams
A film by PF Bentley. I must admit that although I’m not a big fan of poi I do love steamed taro. Some beautiful filmmaking by my buddy PF Bentley who now calls the Friendly Isle home. Shot with a Canon 7D HD-dSLR and GoPro Hero.
Hawaii, Kentucky or Idaho No Ka ‘Oi?
Did a photo shoot for the New York Times the other week up in Hawi. A beautiful home with a landscaped three acres and a view. The article says you can see Maui but it was late in the afternoon and cloudy so I must have missed it on that day. And no ocean sunsets [...]
We Americans sure like to test things
Nuclear explosions recorded on earth between 1945 and 1998. Of course we didn’t only test things, we’re the only ones to have used them ‘for real’ on somebody…twice.
Downgrading the iPhone 3G back to 3.1.3 and restoring apps
I gave iOS 4.0 a try on my iPhone 3G and I went back to iOS3.1.3 Two biggest iOS4 features for the iPhone 3G were Folders and Unified Inbox. There really wasn’t anything else significant from the upgrade. Folders made it hard to figure out where you put apps if you have a lot of [...]
Name that face at the Tiser
I worked at the Honolulu Advertiser for about four months, had an internship there as a staff photographer while going to U.H. This was a a goofy, not for publication, going away photo for this gal. Can you name the folks in this photo? Off the top of my head I can name a couple [...]
Unctuous Numbers
Unctuous BP originally said the oil spill was at a rate of 42,000 gallons a day and still refuses to allow scientists to perform tests to determine the rate.
Pau Hana
The Honolulu Advertiser is put to bed and it won’t wake-up. Update: What’s left is like a sad ghost town, see here
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