Speed up your Windows 7 upgrade with PCMover
I rarely use my billso.com pages to recommend specific software packages, but today I’m making an exception for LapLink’s PCMover Upgrade Assistant. At the current price of $20 or €16, it’s a steal. My upgrade process took 4 hours – and this was the easiest Windows upgrade I’ve done in 20 years.

LOST cars
The producers of LOST have used Fort Street for several location shoots during the last few years. I work on Fort Street Mall, and I usually go down the mall as I head out for my sunrise run. Today’s LOST location shoot involved a few fake LAPD cars and a strange blue Dodge rentamobile. I’ve posted 3 photos to Flickr. The quality isn’t good, but I don’t carry much when I run, and camphone quality is what it is. It was 7 am and overcast. On my way back from the shore, I saw a scene being filmed on Beretania Street, in front of Kukui Plaza. It looked like a

billso.com may be down for 2 days
I host almost all of my web sites, including alohaism.com, kaikaina.com and billso.com, with DreamHost. They do a great job of keeping my web server plugged in and they aren’t expensive. But over the next 2 days, DreamHost is moving all of its servers to a new data center. When the move is done, this web site will be back to norma

Hawaiian Telcom bets on IPTV
Hawaiian Telcom, the state’s major ILEC, is one step closer to resolving its current bankruptcy filing. Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge Lloyd King approved a reorganization plan yesterday that reduces the company’s debt load from US$1.1 billion to $300 million. HawTel will market their long-delayed television service as Next Generation Television or NGTV according to an article in today’s Honolulu Star-Bulletin titled

Photos from TEDxHonolulu 2009
I’ve been at the TEDxHonolulu conference today. The organizers assembled was an interesting group of speakers for this first-time event. I also set up a TEDxHonolulu Flickr pool so attendees could contribute their photos from the event. Click here to view the embedded slideshow.