For a heart-stopping 15-minute period that seemed to stretch for several hours early this morning, iLind.net disappeared. First question in any such investigation: “Did you screw with it? Yes or No?” Of course, my answer was “yes”. Now that it’s all back where I started, I’ll try to get to the day’s content. I’m still [...]
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I’m still working out the bugs in this system but, so far, it’s going okay. Some links don’t work for apparently obscure reasons, but…. This also makes it a bit easier to post mid-day updates, but I haven’t decided whether to go down that road. I’ll just see how things work out. And there’s the [...]
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There continues to be a stream of stories criticizing local officials in Michigan who are planning to attend an upcoming conference in Waikiki. Here’s an except from one column: Michigan, you may recall, is in the midst of a staggering economic slump and local governments are talking about the Draconian cuts they will have to [...]
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You might be interested in this brief essay by Bill Murath which appears on my friend Chuck Smith’s “Of two minds” blog. Lana’i…..What a beautiful secluded paradise. Those Norfolk Pines in Lanai City are so awesome. One of my best buddies moved there in early 90s to take a job at the newly created hotels. [...]
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I noted this comment in a story from a North Carolina television station concerning the death of Christopher Reuther in Nanakuli. From down at the end of the story: Less Schnabel Jr. is charged with manslaughter and is being held on $100,000 bail. Christopher’s friends believe prosecutors are going easy. “I’m personally afraid that this [...]
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We never know exactly what we’ll run into on our morning treks across Kaaawa. Yesterday morning we happened to take the back roads on our return and ran into this friendly critter over at the Nozawa’s farm. I thought about offering a dog biscuit but decided against it. As usually, click on the photo for [...]
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Whoa. Larry Price sure stepped into it the other day during an interview with Senator Gary Hooser. The Advertiser’s Derrick DePledge described the rather intense interaction and today caught the the reaction. What in the world was Price thinking? Or, perhaps more importantly, why did he say what he was thinking? DePledge quotes KSSK’s general [...]
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After all the media hype over Don Ho’s celebration in Waikiki yesterday, the event itself appears to have been something of an anti-climax. From today’s Honolulu Advertiser: “It was pretty much a normal Saturday — except for the hype,” said Luke Golden, a lifeguard at a tower near Queen’s Surf Beach, which stayed open until [...]
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