Mahalo to AdaptiveBlue!

Putting a blog together is probably the most fun I've had online in a long time.

Why? In today's world, even with great, entertaining and educational technology, there's still a spirit of sharing. I noticed yesterday on Howard Lindzon's blog that he has great-looking charts provided by AdaptiveBlue. Beautiful stuff. I did some digging.

That led me to Alex Iskold of AdaptiveBlue. I sent an e-mail asking for help, and he responded almost instantaneously. By the end of the day, even though AdaptiveBlue doesn't have stock charts available to the public yet, I had charts for my A- stocks thanks to Alex. (Yup, those are the charts at your right.)

Talk about aloha spirit! Mahalo Alex!

My current list of A- stocks now includes, finally, Research in Motion. Oh, the Crackberry Cult could've told me long ago that the Co is for real. Now that they've blown out another quarter of earnings expectations, of course they belong in an elite category. The only reason RIMM, AAPL and GOOG aren't in an "A" level (or even A+) is that I'm a fundamentalist in my gut.

Any sign of craziness in the world could send the market tumbling from these lofty heights. Even the elite will be battered. That's why I can't put a stock with nosebleed-level P/Es in an A category. But it's really quite tempting.

Being a relative dinosaur when it comes to cyberspace — I didn't own a PC until 1996 — my pattern of being late to the proverbial tech party has never changed. Late getting a cellphone and still not quite in love with it. No interest in buying an iPhone though I love Apple the Co.

A PS3? Wii? Xbox? I used to be a video-game junkie, playing Madden football online for stretches of 16 or 18 hours. On a PS2, which puts my sorta-decent-Madden-player era around 2000-03. (Who can remember when you're having so much 'fun' cussing out the guy who cheats at the end of a game and rigs you out of a win?)

No, as much as I love companies like Nintendo and Apple, just delving into a world of instant information is still exciting for me. Better than walking a mile to sit at the library, which is open for something like 22 minutes a day now thanks to budget cuts.

I'll just lie here and watch another fascinating morning (Hawaii time) for my favorite stocks.

Disclaimer: Pupule Paul is a teeny bit long in AAPL.