Horner ‘retires’ to tackle rail transit and education

Don Horner has a little more than three weeks left before he officially retires as CEO of First Hawaiian Bank, and he knows full well that this is more of a career change than the "golden years" type of retirement.

Horner, finance committee chairman for the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation board of directors, visited the Star-Advertiser offices yesterday with other HART reps to talk with the editorial board about the city’s rail project. But he acknowledged it wasn’t the enterprise that will demand the most of his time.

That would be the Board of Education, which he chairs, and which hosted a retreat last week to brainstorm ideas for reforms and long-range plans. Talk about something that needs to get on track in a big way.

Televisions just get bigger and bigger

While consumers have been scooping up small tablet computers in lieu of big desktops, TVs have been getting larger and, in an oddity of electronic invention, cheaper. So the geeks at Wired.com tell us. Since 1999, the glass-printing machines, which etch arrays of circuits on sheets and slice them into screens, have increased in size by 800 percent.