After years of directing Spider-Men of varying qualities, Sam Raimi returns to the cheesy-but-enormously-enjoyable horror genre with Drag Me to Hell. It's a horrific morality tale that will teach you to place the needs of milky-eyed, nearly-dead women with staples in their head above your stupid pro...

Well, FOSE got off to a bang with a keynote speech by Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired. Chris is famous for the idea of the Long Tail, and has a written a book on the same topic. No surprise, but he was strongly in favor of government embracing social media, cloud computing and all the r...

Nadine Kam photos Hayden Panettiere flashes a shaka sign at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel grand opening gala Saturday night. Guests had a date with history when The Royal Hawaiian Hotel celebrated its grand reopening with a fundraising gala Saturday night for The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Fo...

I have no great progress to report. Yesterday I did about nine miles, up to High and Over, then to Fiveways and back to the sea and along the front. I say about as I am still finding the new Garmin difficult. I fear it may be a bad unit and I shall have to send it back. It was very windy and hard wo...

Why Blog?It's not an easy thing. Doing da "blog thing" takes time and effort.You have something to say? Write, review, edit, label, publish, review, edit & republish. Who said blogging was easy?Wait, the job isn't done.Now you have to make your "voice" heard and that is the hard part.Comment, link, ...

This past week has been a doosy. If it wasn’t one big thing then it was a HUGE thing (or two). On Monday, I left work early because My Lovely and Talented Wife was sick, really sick. I was gone for most of the day and when I came home around 2 or so, she thought I had never left for work. We p...

That's right folks, if you add up all the individual hours people have played Halo 3, it comes out to over 64,000 years. The billionth game of Halo 3 was played last Saturday. Bungie then calculated the play time of every online match - not counting custom maps - and it reaches 2,023,153,340,764 sec...

Continued from here . Yes, a telephone conversation happened. Yes, a meeting happened soon after. You didn't expect anything else after all the trials and tribulations up until that point, did you? The question is, was it worth it? Had that lone encounter from so long ago taken on a significance com...

I went to college in the 80's. The early 80's.Sometime last winter my college roommate got in touch with me when she was going to be driving through the area. She suggested we meet for a drink on her way by. I met her and her college age daughter and a restaurant just off the highway and we fell int...

For many bloggers, when they first get interested in SEO, they will go after the most competitive keywords first.  A web design blogger will optimize his site to target web design.  A gadget blogger will go after gadgets.  However, this is usually a bad strategy. Short keywords like web design, g...