Saturday is the day my new iPad is supposed to be delivered. It is also the deadline for tens of thousands of state and county employees to decide whether or not to invest in upgrading their state retirement plans. It’s a very consequential decision for state employees. You’ve certainly read about the expected iPad deliveries. [...]
Entries from March 31st, 2010
Retirement “upgrade” deadline for state/county employees near, choices still unclear
March 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · General, Media, Politics
Cute kittens, Call Bob
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Cats, General
A friend forwarded this with a note that two have been adopted, three still looking for homes.
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iPad delivery hits a snag in Shenzhen
March 30th, 2010 · 6 Comments · General
There was excitement yesterday when an email from Apple notified me that my iPad had been shipped! I immediately clicked through to the tracking number and saw it had been logged in by UPS at 3 a.m. local time in Shenzhen, China. That was a surprise, but everything appeared to be on track. Today came [...]
Tags: Apple·delivery problem·iPad
Could the Star-Bulletin become a Washington Times in the Pacific?
March 30th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Media
Both the Advertiser and Star-Bulletin report today that Sam Slom and Malia Zimmerman hope to bid on the S-B, either independently or jointly. Would Hawaii support a Star-Bulletin with an openly and aggressively conservative political agenda of the sort pressed by Slom and Zimmerman? Zimmerman, co-founder of Hawaii Reporter, has extensive ties to mainland conservative [...]
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Rosegg muses about news and Shapiro’s viewpoint
March 30th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Media
Dave Shapiro’s column on local news, noted here yesterday, drew this long reply from former Honolulu Advertiser reporter and editorial writer Peter Rosegg. Rosegg is currently a communications specialist and public spokesman for Hawaiian Electric Company. He is a also very thoughtful person with a lot of journalism experience, so I’m sharing his comment in [...]
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UH Manoa Chancellor reacts to proposed $59 million raid on campus special funds
March 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Politics
University of Hawaii-Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw sent a “budget alert” to all Manoa faculty, staff, and students regarding a Senate bill that would authorized a substantial raid on special funds, including close to $59 million from UH. You may have heard earlier that the State House had unfortunately proposed additional cuts of $10 million for [...]
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A quick look at Sprint’s new 4G wireless hotspot
March 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · General
A month or so ago I retired the Merlin EX720 broadband card that has been serving up wireless Internet service to my laptop for several years, and “upgraded” to Sprint’s new 4G offering, the Sierra Wireless Overdrive. Both operate on the existing Sprint network, but the new Overdrive also connects via the faster Clear/Sprint 4G [...]
Tags: Review·Sierra Overdrive·Sprint
Shapiro on local news, Rich on racial politics, etc.
March 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Media, Politics
Advertiser columnist and former Star-Bulletin managing director, Dave Shapiro, left the humor out of his column today as he took on the state of local news reporting. Local TV news operates from a narrow frame of reference in which the typical newscast has become a recitation of the police blotter, the best daily melodrama from [...]
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