It was a quick check of news updates on the Honolulu Advertiser web site that gave me the news on the attempt to pull HB444 up for another House vote. I didn’t check when it had been posted, but called down to the capitol and discovered House members were still in caucus, so it seemed [...]
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That didn’t take long! Did you happen to catch this in Allison Schaefers’ story in yesterday’s Star-Bulletin regarding Sunday’s expected closing of the Advertiser deal? Quoting Star-Bulletin publisher Dennis Francis: The newspaper’s paid circulation would surpass the Advertiser’s official audit for the sixth-month period ended March 31, which recorded an average daily circulation of 110,000 [...]
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I had hope this morning when I got up, but it was quickly dashed. When connected to the internet via Roadrunner, I can’t open this page or upload files to it. Weirdly enough, I can reach the mail server to check and send mail. But I’ve heard from other Oceanic Cable users who report no [...]
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Here’s the birthday boy himself, stretched out on the floor enjoy the change in weather as daily temperatures rise. I don’t know if we’ll give him a any sort of food treat for his b-day. He’s just starting to show the smallest amount of weight loss after a couple of months on his special MD [...]
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For those of you having trouble accessing iLind.net, the network problem appears to be with Roadrunner! A few minutes ago, I ran a “traceroute”, which follows as my computer tries to access a web page, in this case “www.ilind.net”. Here’s the result. Traceroute has started… traceroute to ilind.net (216.120.254.131), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets [...]
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With personal financial disclosures on my mind, I stopped by city hall to take a look at what has been filed by Mayor Mufi Hannemann. If you want to look at financial disclosures filed by the governor, top level state executive appointees, or members of the legislature, you can just point your computer’s browser to [...]
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I couldn’t open iLind.net or upload my daily updates this morning. The outage most of the morning, as far as I can tell. My hosting service, Hostrocket.com, reports that they have not had trouble with the server. Most reports I’ve had regarding problems reaching the page have been from Oceanic Roadrunner users. So we’re still [...]
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I made an interesting discovery yesterday. Candidates running for the 1st District Congressional seat are required by federal law to file personal financial disclosures, just like candidates who file for state and county offices. Congressional financial disclosures are public documents. But they’re filed in Washington, D.C. As far as I can tell, there’s no requirement [...]
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