Are you having problems with this site? If so, please let me know so that I can troubleshoot. One reader just reported an issue: I don’t know if anyone else has said anything but your site has been crashing my browser page for the last week. I simply close the tab or page and it [...]
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An informal survey of a small group of bloggers, reported on today on BlogHer, turned up this interesting result–most of those who responded said that there isn’t any relationship between how hard you work on a post and the reactions it generates. In fact, some reported that it’s an inverse relationship. The less you work [...]
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I’ve been mulling over the possibility of adding a new level of online discussions. I notice that there is a lot of interst, resulting in lots of comments, on certain issues, usually issues where there is a strong contrast of opinions but sometimes a wide disagreement over the factual context. I’m wondering if there is [...]
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Thanks to Larry Geller for his description of a whistleblower lawsuit against United Airlines over working conditions in a call center tucked away in a former storage area in the bowels of Honolulu International Airport. The problem is proximity to a grease trap that services a kitchen operated by Gate Gourmet. The lawsuit alleges that [...]
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A month or so ago, I installed a new, bigger, and faster hard drive in my MacBook Pro, the laptop which is my primary computer and blogging platform. It required opening the case and mucking around inside. It worked. It also left me somewhat emboldened. So with my birthday looming, I decided to go the [...]
Bloggers take note! Before attorney Jesse Souki was appointed as director of the Office of State Planning at the end of this year’s legislative session, he was a land use attorney and author of the well-respected blog, Hawaii Land Use Law and Policy. His blogging was mentioned by at least a couple of people who [...]
• We happened to be watching KITV’s news at 6 p.m. on Saturday and caught their story on the concussion suffered by the Damien High School quarterback during a football game Friday night. The problem was that it was played purely as a human interest story. Quotes from family and friends, coach and teammates, prayers [...]
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I was quite surprised yesterday when a tweet from Ryan Ozawa called my attention to a mention in Honolulu Weekly’s annual “Best of Honolulu” issue. It’s found among the Readers’ Picks in the People section. I wasn’t expecting this, and so didn’t see it until the day after the issue hit the street. Thanks to [...]
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