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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How to get Safari to load tabbed pages in the background in Mac OSX Lion

I use tabs a lot in Safari, like really a lot. So much that I will open over 50 open at one instance so #2-#50 can load in the background while I’m reading #1. But with the new Safari v5.1 and Mac OSX Lion that all changed. I’d open the tabs and none of the [...]

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Pssst. The secret on how to block the Facebook Chat window

I was getting a bit peeved on the Facebook Chat window popping open all the time even though I wasn’t even logged into chat. Zuck is really pushing hard on this ‘awesome’ new feature. After a bit of research on the internet I had my answer. It’s to add an extension to Safari called AdBlock [...]

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Independence Day 2011 Hilo Style

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Summer Snow on Mauna Kea Summit

Rare June snowfall in Hawaii

A storm and cold temperatures combined to create a rare snow-capped Mauna Kea in June. Hail and snow fell on the mountain shutting down summit operations Saturday night as up to eight inches covered the ground. On Sunday crews cleared the roadways, the sun melted some of the snow and access re-opened to the public. [...]

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