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Hawaii, Connecticut or California? Which would you choose?

Shot an assignment for the New York Times last week. If you’ve got $700,000 burning a hole in your pocket here’s a place in Volcano you can pick-up and even get $1K back in change.

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This is Facebook's redesigned photo viewer. They added a sidebar on the right for comments and ads. The problem is that horizontal images look like the right side of the photo has been chopped-off by the sidebar, like you're missing something. Bad design as it feels like it's choking the image.

Facebook designers listen-up, a little drop shadow goes a long way

Facebook pushed upon its users a number of design changes. A new Timeline, condensed commenting and other things some of which I’m okay with, some are bothersome, others I hate. One thing I hate is how they recently decided to display a users photos. It doesn’t feel right. See examples below.

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Yet another badly written House Bill that would hurt Public Access TV

You can view the letter I wrote below to the House members from the Big Island. This is in regards to House Bill 2654 going before committee today. You can view the bill and submit testimony at http://tinyurl.com/hb2654 From: Baron Sekiya Subject: I oppose House Bill 2654 as currently written Date: February 7, 2012 12:58:12 PM HST To: Jerry [...]

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Bad legislation would silence community voices in the state

By Baron Sekiya President of Na Leo ‘O Hawai‘i Public Access Television Feburary 5, 2012 ACTION ALERT! YOUR VOICE ON THE BIG ISLAND COULD BE SILENCED BY LEGISLATION! Legislation that would silence Public Access Community TV has been introduced by Big Island Representative Bob Herkes with the backing of Cable TV giant Oceanic Time-Warner. The [...]

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My last sunset of 2011 as seen from Waikoloa, Hawaii. Photo by Baron Sekiya

My last sunset of 2011 is someone’s sunrise for 2012

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Honolulu International Airport Thursday, December 22, 2011

Here, there and in-between

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iTunes Mis-Match

iTunes Match service has a long way to go in working out the bugs. Take a look at the album art it downloaded to my computer for a Jimi Hendrix album. Poor Gomer never saw it coming, seems a lot of people have been getting his album cover instead of Jimi’s. Check out the brutal [...]

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(figure 2) List of host RSA keys in 'known_hosts' file in TextWrangler.

How to fix SSH login problems with your Dreamhost VPS

If you use DreamHost’s VPS service you may have recently had your host server upgraded to Debian OS ‘Squeeze’ v6.0.2.

This happened mostly through the month of August, maybe it’s still happening.

One of the side effects of this was that the RSA host key changed for the server. Most folks won’t notice this but if you’ve used SSH to access the server you’re probably getting the warning message below. (I changed RSA key, username and domain name to generic names in the example below.)

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How to get past the NYTimes.com paywall nag screen

The video first shows how the nag screen pops open preventing you from readying the webpage without a subscription. There are actually three easy ways (only two are shown in the video). Chop-off everything to the right of the ‘.html’ in the URL to visit the webpage. Just hit the ‘Reader’ button in Apple’s Safari [...]

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Will Fox News say the 5.9 magnitude quake is Obama’s fault?

So if Fox News blames the 5.9M quake as Obama’s fault I say welcome Mr. President. Having a fault named after you is an honor. Join the club.

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