Open Letter to Neil Abercrombie regarding race-based government

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(Sent to Governor’s office with the email form on their website.)

My understanding is that you are about to sign legislation that will decide, based on racial background, who gets to be part of a new Hawaiian government.

Let me remind you that the Kingdom of Hawaii, was, like the State of Hawaii, a multi-racial government. Putting together a committee to decide who is and who isn’t Hawaiian enough to be a part of this race-based government is an offense to the principles of equality, justice, freedom and the wisdom of our kupuna who embraced all of humanity as equals with the first constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii which stated that all people were “of one blood”.

Please reconsider your support of apartheid in Hawaii. It is the wrong thing to do.

 

Gitorious and CentOS 5.6 64-bit

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Ridiculously long set of instructions on how to get Gitorious running on CentOS 5.6 64-bit. The vast majority of these instructions are copied from http://famousphil.com/blog/2011/06/installing-gitorious-on-centos-5-6-x64/

Before applying these instructions, do yourself a favor and search and replace for the following:

<hostname.domain>

<mysqladminpassword>

<admin email>

<gitmysqlpassword>

<country>

<state>

<city>

<company>

<gitoriousadminpassword>

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iPhone on Verizon, 5 minutes early

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By my clock, I was able to order my dear wife the new Verizon iPhone at 2:55AM EST.

Using the same old Nationwide Talk Family Share 700 plan I had before, just had to pay $249.99 for the phone, and sign up for an extra $29.99 for the “unlimited email & web”.  Add in tax, and no employee discount (though I did get the $50 bucks for the new-every-two thing, I believe), comes out to $323.11 I had to put on a credit card.

w00t!

Now all I need to do is make sure they can block text messaging on the damn thing.  Homie don’t pay for texts when they don’t cost the carrier a damn bit of bandwidth.