Mel, money doesn't grow on trees, so since trillions have been given to rich bankers (who are still paying themselves obscene bonuses) we have not even seen...
While I'm really, really tempted to debate you, Larry, on the merits of your "trillions given to rich bankers" claim, I'm going to instead thank you for the...
Sad Thing is the Dems have vowed to over-ride so you better get on the phone not email with your reps and start talking to them.. We need to all come together...
The Governor has officially announced her intent to veto HB1405 http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/bills/gm781_.pdf It's on. ... The bailouts were...
Before complaining about scaling back Act 221, you might want to include in those position papers why the state should continue giving any tax money to...
The DOE in its current form need to be completely scrapped. States with schools ranked at the top annually have local school boards which this state...
... Even if that is true Todd, there's no way the state is going to "completely scrap" the DOE. It's just not going to happen. You've been in Hawaii long...
I like the discussion. I have been waiting for close to 30 years for Hawaii citizens to get to the boiling point re education, the economy, politics etc....
ryan thanks for the thoughtful positioning. Amazon is clearly (and correctly) letting Lingle know that this tax won't generate income because the main...
Jeff If those young and bright are building technology companies in Hawaii, I can tell you where they are, they are back in the mainland drumming up business...
David, First of all, the state isn't giving any tax money. It's allowing people to risk their own money to build new, tax-paying businesses. Second, if there's...
I've written a bit about this on my blog. A story: years ago, when Paul LeMahieu had just become DOE supt and Randy Hits (?) came on at the school of education...
Education vs. industry is a chicken vs. egg issue, I'd say. With regard to DOE, currently we're talking about taking money away and people losing jobs, not...
Anyone grow up watching Dragnet? I loved watching Jack Webb (Sgt Joe Friday) "Just the facts Ma'am" Anecdotal information is nice but let's leave it to the...
It took me forever to getting around to deciding which service to try first to transfer ancient video from Super 8 film to a DVD or digital. But, it worked out...
My lil company has been using GMail corporate for about a year, we're trying to get our overlords to adopt it as well so we can all be on one happy shared...
Making the case that it won't be a security risk: Google uses little off-the-shelf software, so exploits in common software like bind won't hurt them. Google...
thx lucas, I really appreciate it. it's feeling like a losing battle and my group are going to set the clock back to 2001 workflows. but this helps a lot! ... ...
Love it. My number is (202) 684-6084, though I'm about to change it (for $10). No Hawaii area code, yet. The transcripts are more entertaining than accurate,...
I have a Google Voice account. I've played with it a small bit (I have had Grand Central forever). But I hate talking on the phone and never answer it, so it's...
Patrick, One of the universities I teach for migrated its base of 400,000+ users over to GMail earlier this year. I have neither seen nor heard of security...
G, It's pretty neat. It's got a nice set of features for a consumer service, including a nifty way of programmatically dealing with phone spam. As Ryan Ozawa...
thanks guys, i'm just finishing my presentation. the below calculation is conservative, allowing a user only 6 minutes per day of dealing with spam. 30 minutes...
... Been using it since it was Grand Central. Unfortunately they don't have 808 area code numbers yet, so my number is in N. Dakota. It's really flexible in...
Running on Google Apps for our corporate email and a variety of other domains we hold, spam has become a non issue with us. Google has done a pretty amazing...
With Google, it's not likely that they'll go out of business any day soon, but that is one consideration of security. In the old days of time sharing services,...