On the way back from Ryan's Geek Meet yesterday Mika and I noticed three more small businesses in our neighborhood, the east side of Kaka'ako, shuttered. We must have lost 1/3 of the small family owned restaurants and shops in this area over the past two years. I know some of the owners, and it breaks my heart to see businesses that families worked hard for years to build go under. Its starting to look like a ghost town littered with empty buildings covered in graffiti. The Economist predicts…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on April 26, 2010 at 7:30am —
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Hi,
I am sorry to inform you all, but I had to change the event date to the 28th for the Hawaii Flash User Group's meeting on PureMVC for flash & Flex. There was a room scheduling conflict at the University of Hawaii! It is sometimes very difficult to get meeting space.
you can see the updated post here:
http://www.techhui.com/events/puremvc-for-flash-flexfor the update meeting see the adobe groups…
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Added by John Barrett on April 24, 2010 at 12:06am —
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At the beginning of the 2010 Hawaii Legislative session, with the State facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit, I wrote a five-part series for our Legislature and for our tech community. The purpose was to demonstrate simple procurement decisions, and abuses, that subsidized technology-driven jobs in locations other than our own economy. Continue
Added by R. Scott Belford on April 22, 2010 at 4:00am —
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Added by Mark Wood on April 21, 2010 at 10:43pm —
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At the beginning of the 2010 Hawaii Legislative session, with the State facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit, I wrote a five-part series for our Legislature and for our tech community. The purpose was to demonstrate simple procurement decisions, and abuses, that subsidized technology-driven jobs in locations other than our own economy.
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Added by R. Scott Belford on April 21, 2010 at 4:00am —
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At the beginning of the 2010 Hawaii Legislative session, with the State facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit, I wrote a five-part series for our Legislature and for our tech community. The purpose was to demonstrate simple procurement decisions, and abuses, that subsidized technology-driven jobs in locations other than our own economy.
Failing to Leverage Buying…
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Added by R. Scott Belford on April 20, 2010 at 4:00am —
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At the beginning of the 2010 Hawaii Legislative session, with the State facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit, I wrote a five-part series for our our Legislature and for our tech community. The purpose was to demonstrate simple procurement decisions, and abuses, that subsidized technology-driven jobs in locations other than our own economy. Continue
Added by R. Scott Belford on April 19, 2010 at 4:00am —
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At the beginning of the 2010 Hawaii Legislative session, with the State facing a $1.1 billion budget deficit, I wrote a five-part series for our Legislature and for our tech community. The purpose was to demonstrate simple procurement decisions, and abuses, that subsidized technology-driven jobs in locations other than our own economy. During the hours that I was writing this on 1-26-10, the final essay, I learned that our recently appointed…
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Added by R. Scott Belford on April 18, 2010 at 12:00pm —
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The analogy between the situation of the farmers in Hawaii to the Akira Kurosawa movie, Seven Samurai is being raised in "Finding the Way for Aquaculture in Hawaii" interview, produced by Jay Fidell (Think Tech). Here is a link to the interview:
http://www.aquaculturehub.org/video/finding-a-way-for-aquaculture
And, here is the trailer for one of the greatst films ever made, Akira Kurosawa's Seven…
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Added by Tetsuzan Benny Ron on April 17, 2010 at 1:00pm —
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A friend turned me on to
geocaching. Great blend of technology and the Internet to get me to places where I never would have ventured. Enjoying it.

Added by Chris Kutler on April 17, 2010 at 10:36am —
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Mark Dawson wants to blow up the online job boards business. And it's hard to beat his price -- free, as in beer. Dawson is the CEO of
Jobsfreeforall.com, a Honolulu dot-com startup owned by staffing firm Altres. Jobsfreeforall offers free resume uploads to applicants and free job listings, applicant tracking and other goodies that employers and staffing agencies currently pay for when using job boards such as Monster.com or CareerBuilder.…
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Added by Alex Salkever on April 16, 2010 at 7:30pm —
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I am starting a project and looking for volunteers.
The project will be using Flex& ColdFusion for a dashboard medical application so that people with Hepatitis C here in Hawaii and elsewhere can better manage their condition.
The application covers all medical conditions with Hep C and its related illnesses.
If interested in helping, please contact me at johnbarr@hawaii.edu. I will be announcing this at the next Hawaii Flash User Group meeting.
So far…
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Added by John Barrett on April 15, 2010 at 4:36pm —
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The Hawaii Flash User Group is having another April meeting, this makes it 3 this month!
Come find out what is new in Flash CS 5!
Some of the things will be going over is:
- The iPhone packager
- Code improvements
- Snippets
- The new formats FXG and XFL
- Workflow improvements
- Device Central
- Text Layout Framework
Plus more!
Added by John Barrett on April 15, 2010 at 4:30pm —
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We've received dozens of inquiries today about the recent
announcement from Ning that they are cutting their free service, and if this means the end of TechHui. It does not. TechHui is a premium network paid for by the generous sponsors you see on the right of the page. Premium networks are unaffected by the changes at Ning.
Ning has been paying for the infrastructure to host…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on April 15, 2010 at 1:00pm —
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Added by Mark Wood on April 13, 2010 at 12:30am —
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We now have the great distinction of the shortest school year in the nation - 163 days. The national average is 180. Japan averages 243 and China averages 251. These countries also have longer school days allowing them to cover more subjects in greater depth. The sad fact of the matter is that our children will be ill prepared to compete in an increasingly…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on April 11, 2010 at 2:30pm —
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http://policyninja.org
FREE Workshop, 5:30–7:30pm, Tuesday, April 6
Hawaii State Capitol, Room 312 (Pupus and refreshments will be provided.)
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Added by Sustain Hawaii on April 5, 2010 at 2:31pm —
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Buddhist teachings and
sutras. In this blog, I'd like to compare some of these similarities in order to gain a better understanding into how they are interrelated and/or are interchangeable.
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Added by Konstantin A Lukin on April 5, 2010 at 8:00am —
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new study from Cornell finds that
"lust for material things fade but our unique experiences remain with us for a long time." I have always been a believer in personal investment and have said that the best… Continue
Added by Gus Higuera on April 2, 2010 at 11:00pm —
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As part of a new joint venture called
Ikayzo-it, Ikayzo and Oceanit have released an iPhone App dubbed iMuch? that provides iPhone development estimates based on three basic questions:
- Category
- One sentence description
- Desired release date
For example, the entries "Game", "A game where dragons fight ninjas", and "April 7, 2010" produces an estimate of $16,421.18. "The App is…
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Added by Daniel Leuck on March 31, 2010 at 8:30pm —
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