Author: Gill Brooks

Protect the internet, not: Protect IP

Many websites are blacked out today to protest proposed U.S. legislation that threatens internet freedom: the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). From personal blogs to Wikipedia, sites all over the...

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The Yurt in Hana

Jane and I headed out to Hana for the weekend at the yurt. With our faithful, fat gaurd-cat...

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Dinner in 225 Minutes @ Longhi’s Wailea

With two mainland visitors in tow I headed down, on their last night here, to Longhi’s Wailea for a sumptuous and nearly 4 hour long dining extravaganza! As luck, a regular companion in my “restaurant” life, would have it, we...

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Hana Hou Café -a Diamond in the rough..

Even if by serendipity, my partner and I were turned away from a few of our favorite upcountry restaurants last night [long waits] and ended up at Hana Hou Café in Haiku. As it turned out it was a stroke of great luck as dinner...

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