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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A couple of months ago, I ordered a new hard drive, intending on installing it in my MacBook Pro. It’s a Seagate 500GB Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (2.5-Inch | SATA 3.0Gb/s | 7200RPM | 32MB Cache), if you happen to know what all those things mean, or what difference they make [...]
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It’s been a while since I updated my opinion of Apple’s iPad. I was one of those who pre-ordered last year and waited anxiously for the UPS truck to appear, but while I enjoyed this new bit of technology, I remained guarded about what it’s role might be in my workflow. It has seemed to [...]
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I got a call from the Apple Store late yesterday afternoon. They are going to replace the mother board. Unfortunately, they don’t have one in stock, so have one “on order.” It is unlikely to come in until the middle of next week. I’m not expecting to get my computer back until Thursday or Friday. [...]
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