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Entries from March 30th, 2010

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 [...]

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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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