Living in Hawaii – Moving to Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Big Island

Just south of the small town of Chaiya, which lies north of Surat Thani, Thailand is a Buddhist temple known world wide for it’s quality meditation retreats held monthly. Usually well over 100 persons attend each meditation retreat and some attend many of them. Naturally there are more Europeans than Americans there – Americans not [...]

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There was a very serious hole found in the IE browser and even Microsoft is recommending that you find an alternative browser for a while until they figure out the extent of the damage. .02% of internet sites are affected (infected) with this trojan that downloads to your computer and installs malicious code to steal [...]

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I have this thing about me – call it a personality flaw or whatever you wish. I have a serious problem with something I experience in life. Those that know me might never know what it is. A few know. I’d go so far as saying it’s a dysfunction I think. Yes, it’s fair to [...]

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Today a friend’s blog got me thinking about something I think about often but haven’t written about specifically yet: Diversity. Diversity among human beings is so wide-ranging and thoroughly  manifest that it’s hard to fathom. I went to my friend’s blog (MauiGirl’s Meanderings) and she had a list of 100 experiences one could share with [...]

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Good question. If you’re running Google Adsense then likely some of you are running into a dead-end. On this blog I started seeing the Scientology FLASH ads about 3 weeks ago. I despise the philosophy / religion whatever one calls it. I don’t even want any religion to be running ads on my site. None. [...]

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I see dis! Ho wow laulau – wat kine dis?! Get zip tie’s holding da plane together?! WASSAP WIT DAT! I read a blog by a Hawaiian guy, Braddah Lance, from “Wassap Wit Dat?” that speaks in the local pidgin “Da kine” it’s sometimes called. When someone uses the “da kine” it can mean the [...]

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