Total frustration. I’m excited about the opportunity to pull apart data on campaign contributions over the past couple of years. It’s the first time I’ve had a chance to examine all the contributions a person makes to different candidates over the course of an election cycle. I’ve got the data, I know the initial questions [...]
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Two readers have reported that the photos in the “One pot meal” challenge aren’t displaying properly on their computers. I’m wondering how widespread the problem might be. If you’re also having problems, please leave a comment below. Also let me know what kind of computer/operating system you’re using. My regular photo software (Lightroom & Photoshop) [...]
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I’ve been testing out PressReader, a mobile app for iPad (and a number of other platforms) that delivers access to the “print replica” editions of a huge number of newspapers from around the world. The PressReader web site puts the number at “over 2300″ newspapers from 97 countries, available for an all-inclusive $29.95 monthly subscription. [...]
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This is a question for the iPhone geeks out there. We are booked to spend a week in Auckland, New Zealand, in late November. Meda’s keynoting the annual meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology. So I’m trying to figure out how to manage our communications during our stay down under. I [...]
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I tried to visit the State Ethics Commission website a few minutes ago. It’s 9:15 a.m. All I got was an eventual error message. The server for Hawaii.gov, the state’s main web portal, is apparently DOWN. What does this say about the state of our infrastructure?
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If you’ve been having problems connecting to this site today, you’re not alone. I got an alert from a monitoring company that I use about noon, and I think the site was down for about two hours. It’s now about 2:15 p.m. Hawaiian time, and it appears to be back up and running. It was [...]
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Meda was at a conference on the mainland when I got up in the wee hours of the morning and found a large dead rodent carefully deposited in my bathroom by one of the cats (Ms. Annie is the favorite suspect). Given the time difference between Honolulu and Denver, I sent off a quick email [...]
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Well, she did it! On Monday, my mother (age 98) asked me about my iPad. On Wednesday, my sister, Bonnie, and I took her shopping at the Apple Store at Kahala Mall. It didn’t take too long. With some help from Noah, one of Apple’s in-store experts, she walked out with her shiny new iPad. [...]
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