billso.com

I’ve been dismantling the old hpu.sodeman.com web site. Some of that content already had a new home here on billso.com, at the APA and Finding references menu items.I also fixed my old pages for the IS 6100 and IS 7010 courses, so that they redirect to the proper pages on billso.com. I have not updated those course pages for the Fall 2007 term yet.

Both Honolulu papers have added several blogs over the last year, so we are getting more local news and comments on their web sites.

Case in point: the Star-Bulletin’s So Necessary blog reported Tuesday that Magoo’, the fabled bar at Puck’s Alley near UH-Manoa, is closing its doors tomorrow. I don’t get to Magoo’s often, but it’s one of my favorite places and I’ll miss it.
There was a follow-up article in yesterday’s Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and a hint that new ownership may open their own restaurant in the same space next month. Magoo’s will use 10 vans to sell pizza around the island.

Kamahemeha Schools bought Puck’s Alley last year, and today the Star-Bulletin announced that Kamehameha schools has purchased the Varsity Theater across the street. The Varsity closed its doors last week, with a similar lack of advance notice. Expect construction, renovation, and new business in a year or two. Construction will finish soon at another Kamehameha property, the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center, which may become a fourth campus for the schools according to another Star-Bulletin article today.