Enjoy our National Day of Thanksgiving!  My best to everyone in the final countdown to the end of 2007, and in the upcoming New Year. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Mele Kalikimaka, Hauoli Makahiki Hou, Joyeux Noël! Bill. Leddahs.

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My nephew in Ninilchik, Alaska, just a few miles from Homer, ….  the real-life model for Cecily in Northern Exposure, hunts, fishes and helps run the family Hostel.  He’s in the process of making Caribou sausage from one of his recent hunts.  Here is his latest email and photos.  Hey, Bill    It’s that time of year […]

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Trying to determine if it is actually possible to update this BLOG from my iPhone WITH photos from the iPhone. The Apple TV commercial shows the ballet dancer in NYC doing that, but she probably is blogging from a dotMac account.  This blog is hosted on my own domain in WordPress.  While I can update the […]

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Been offline for nearly 3 days, apparently due to rain(!!)  I’m assuming that it was one of the two upstream vendors for backbone connectivity.  Hilo was online, but those of us out in the hinterlands went without email and internet access from a little after 7am Monday to about 9:15pm or thereabouts on Wednesday night. […]

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Saturday I had about 20 friends over to help pick rambutan, a near cousin of lychee. Â
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At about 4pm today my friend Mark came and  set a pig trap under the Star Fruit trees.  At 5:15pm we had a taker. At 7pm Mark came, shot the pig reset the trap and took him home to butcher.  He’ll bring me a fresh shoulder this weekend, which will go into the GOSM smoker with […]

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I’ve been busy doing other things the past week, and when I looked today there were 40 comments sitting in Moderator waiting for me.  All but three were Spam, so those three have been approved and are now in the Blog and the RSS feed.Wolfman and Vixen from Oahu dropped a comment…. which I answered. […]

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I spent about 45 minutes yesterday installing Leopard onto my Intel 24″ iMac.   I had previously made 2 complete, bootable backups onto two separate external hard drives. Taking my instructions from MacFixIt.com, MacInTouch.com and the TidBits E-Book: Take Control of Installing Leopard, I opted for the Archive and Install; Preserve Users and Settings.  I also checked […]

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