My thanks to the surprising number of folks who emailed me about the problems that essentially froze this site for the past two days. I spent hours—and I literally mean 4-to-5 hours—both on line and on the phone—trying to locate someone to find and fix the problem. Meanwhile, this kolea (Pacific golden plover) has spent…
Typos make me crazy. And not just typos. Misspellings and grammatical mistakes, too. You labor over a piece of writing—whether it’s one of these posts, an article for a magazine or a letter-to-the-editor—and when it’s published and too late to do anything about it, there it is. The obscure thing you missed even though you…
In my former life I owned and ran an advertising agency in Honolulu and was occasionally asked to speak to marketing students at the University of Hawaii. On one such occasion, I was asked what I looked for when reviewing resumes from prospective employees. “Typos,” I said. “If I find a typo or a misspelling…