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Shared Endorsements Google makes it easy for you to get great recommendations from your friends.  For example, when you visit the  Google Play music store , you may see that a friend has +1'd a new album by your favorite artist. When you search for a restaurant, you may see an ad including a 5-star review by another friend.

Boehner's Tantrum

When Democrats and Independents sat out the 2010 election, mostly because many remained disillusioned about the state of the economy, some where unhappy that the newly passed Affordable Care Act did not go far enough, and some just could not be bothered to vote in a non-presidential cycle, they opened the way for a fringe group of self-styled tea-party, who some have credited with racist tendencies, to ascend into the United State Congress, the US Senate and most Governorship and State legislative bodies. In 2010, the extremist seized the reign of government, and nothing has been the same since then.

Not all things are nogotiable

After forcing a gleeful government shutdown, an aftermath of their previous success in blackmailing the nation into a near default and a downgrade, and extracting huge concessions, even after loosing at the ballot box, Republicans across the land are now running over each other to claim the mantle of reasonableness. They want to negotiate. Al Shabab too wanted to negotiate, during its weeklong siege in Nairobi. The Arab nations too wanted to negotiate with Isreal in 1967 during the 7 days war. But what is the point in a negotiation aimed solely at defeating your opponent? 

A Western Delusion : The War on Terror

The "War on ..." as a phrase snuck into our lexicon sometime after World War II and for some reason we have not been able to shake it off. There was the war on poverty, then the war on drug, and now the war on terror. These three wars have at at best mixed out comes for the west, particularly for the US. As a result of the war on terror, American black males are more likely to go to jail today, than go to college - 40% more likely today than in the 1960s, just before the assault on their liberty, tagged the war on terror became the law of the land. 40 years on, American has become the incarceration capital of the world, with its prisons bursting at the seams, literarily. This one war, America lost.

A step, away from the brink

Assad will have to go. Sooner, rather than later. A Global coalition may even have to play some role in his removal. But today, Barack Obama showed some uncommon strength, that for years have been bereft in occupants of the oval office, and continues to be wanting in many so called world leaders. He stepped the US away from the brink, even if for another 10 days.

Will America go to War with Russia over Syria?

Vladmir Putin enjoys the aura of faux-machismo where pictures of his taming tigers, bear hunting with bare torso and robbing a US sport team owner of his ring-hood brings. Vladmir like very much, the image of Vladmir The Great of St. Petersburg. Barack Obama is routinely derided as a whimp at home and a terrorist supporter abroad. These too characters make for a great romantic epic, but are they also made for a horrific global calamity?

A Global Dream

Several British journals spent their precious little editorial spaces this week reviewing the "work" that still needs to be done to achieve Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream, first espoused five decades ago, in the raging days of the civil rights movement in America. It was interesting to note how much none of the opinionators on the other side of the pond failed to see that the Dream was beyond an American Dream, it was a Global Dream.

The illogics of Syrian Chemical Weapon claims

John Kerry is heard sounding like the US is going to start a full campaign in Syria soon. Apparently someone is trying so hard to make Obama look much worse than George Bush. After 9/11, Mr. Bush was convinced that Iraq was the nexus of the War on Terror, and so he sheepishly marched the US into perfidious war that benefitted only the enemies and rivals of the United States. In the decade of the Iraq war, China grew stronger economically and militarily, while the US grew much weaker morally.

Lybia, Syria, Egypt - Hypocrisy of the West

The Russians and Chinese must be grinning at the political harakiri of the west, as the grisly sight of dead Egyptians begin to elicit comparison with Syria. After all, the al-Sisi led mauling of Brotherhood opposition is no different than the Assad led mauling of the various al-Qeda stripes in Syria. While western call for calm in Egypt has remained muted, the quest for a post Assad Damascus must be causing some heart burn in western capitals.

Lenovo pulls out of US market

It seems like Lenovo has pulled out of the US market, while showcasing Duke University on its website. Or how is one to read this notice from the Lenovo website? Note the country is United States ...

Mathematica Workbench LA

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Apple spec seems out of spec

Note the spec for 15" Macbook Pro and 15" Macbook Pro with Retina Display. The

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Where is Microsoft's IPad???

The IPad, when it was first released was a genius design. It was light, ergonomic, stylistic, easy to use and released with a series of "game-changing" applications, including the iBook. It was a devices, that like all Apple products since the original IPod, told a story - remember the IPod was paired with the iTunes at launch. The Microsoft Surface is none of these things the IPad was, and it is yet to tell a story.

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installing mysql on freebsd circa 2013

mysql_install_db --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local output: Installing MySQL system tables...2013-03-21 20:58:56 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details). 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: CPU does not support crc32 instructions 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: The first specified data file ./ibdata1 did not exist: a new database to be created! 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file ./ibdata1 size to 12 MB 2013-03-21 20:58:56 81008 [N...