Meda and I share one car. Yesterday was a day when I had the car, so at the end of the day I headed up to the UH Manoa campus to pick her up. I parked downstairs in front of her building, and then just texted her that I had arrived. Then I looked down. [...]
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Big Brother wants to now what you’re doing online. From CNET this morning: Hawaii’s legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit. Its House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on a new bill [...]
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Things seem to be bogged down this morning. I’ve reported the slowdown to my hosting service, and hopefully they’ll be able to tweak things from their end. So far, the site isn’t “down,” just very slow. I thought maybe Oceanic Cable was causing problems, but speedtest results show my broadband connection is working just fine. [...]
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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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Look busy and check out some of this good reading. • From Public Citizen and the Harvard Law School, “Fulfilling Kennedy’s Promise: Why the SEC Should Mandate Disclosure of Corporate Political Activity“, September 2011. The report traces the recent history of campaign disclosure, and sees the SEC’s role as critical. Here’s an interesting point made: [...]
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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 [...]
Here’s a little vignette from Bob Jones: I normally use MacMouse club for all my computer troubleshooting. But Head Cheese Rolf Nordahl was busy when I needed him this week. Try Geek Squad, somebody suggested. Well, the GS apparently is part of Best Buy. So it is an 800 number in Houston,TX. After going thru [...]
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According to an email sent to UH faculty Tuesday afternoon, the main academic computer system used for managing class registration, enrollment, and tuition payments crashed and was “unavailable.” Coming at a time when students are trying to enroll or change classes, and faculty are trying to update class lists, the inability of the system or [...]
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