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There is something incredibly annoying about lilly-white Americans who move to Hawaii and start saying “aloha” all the time.

It’s a [expletive deleted] nuisance.

It’s as pretentious as if I were to move to Morocco and start signing my emails in tamazight.

You see, I’m not Berber or Tuareg.

Or, if I moved to New Zealand and started every email I ever wrote with “Kia Ora”.

It’s not like using native terms is encouraging solidarity with the indigenous people of the land I’ve colonized.  No, it is the Disneyfication of the experience.  Like thinking you’ve had French food because you’ve eaten at Paris in Epcot.

But people in Hawaii think it is ok, to say Aloha.

Why?

One simple reason, they are in Hawaii.

If they were in Siberia they wouldn’t make it a habit to sign all their emails in a remote language that doesn’t make people slightly envious.

We GET IT.  You are in Hawaii, now stop gloating. You pompous shit.  You are sitting in front of a computer writing an email, not out enjoying the awesome life in Hawaii.  You are probably eating a donut, and you area going to die.

Now stop acting like you are the only devil-may-care American who has “gone savage”.   You aren’t Gauguin.  Or maybe you are 1/32 Cherokee and need to tell people about that, as well.

I would love to live in Hawaii and I plan on it someday.  But I swear to the entire Internet I will never write Aloha in an email.  It is a slap in the face to anyone with Hawaiian blood.

Haoles saying aloha is wrong.

I heard this quote from Raising Arizon:

Evelle: H.I., you’re young and you got your health, what you want with a job?

I hate to say this, but some Spammers are very talented.

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Read ‘it and weep….

There is so much hoopla about social networking… still… after all this time.

This whole thing is so incredibly boring. I’ve basically stopped using facebook, have deleted my myspace account and am not sure why orkut even exists.

And I know I’m not alone.

I have been using the Camino browser for a while now and love it.  I found a little feature yesterday which made it so that you could accept or reject cookies.

Two things:

1. The program hangs until you accept or deny each one.  It would be good if it kept loading without accepting it, so you could then go through and click accpet or deny for each one instead of having to wait for each one to pop up.

2. There are a HUGE amount of cookies out there! It is f*$&ing crazy!  I went to one article for business week and it tried to set 8 cookies! 8!  WTF?

it’s true, in fact

noteveryonewantsaniphone.com

possibly the most over-hyped product in the Universe!

tah dah!

it remains… a phone.

you can’t put third party apps on it, you can’t feed the hungry or clothe the poor.

it is just a f$&£ing phone.

This is a good video summary to the question of “What is Web 2.0?”. (Beside a buzzword.) Now, I am not going to drink deeply from the fountain of kool-aid, but I do think that they have a point. The web is evolving quickly. However, I think Tim Berners-Lee is right in saying about web 2.0 “nobody even knows what that means”. If anything we are still in Web 1.0, but people are just using it differently. It isn’t a new release, it is the same technologies, but just a different way of using them. I like wikis and blogs, don’t get me wrong, but they aren’t that new.

It looks like to save money on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, some companies are moving back to private rather than publicly listed.

It is a bit of an anathema to the the late ’90s’, when everyone wanted to go public.

Not it seems like the smart money is un-IPO-ing themselves.

It looks like the Congress is getting closer to democratizing data and eliminating the digital divide.

Damn liberals.