Bliss!

May 2, 2014 |  poem  tapei  life 
Was out on labor day for a medical appointment and had a chance to wander around an underground mall by myself, for couple of hours. The key thing here is 'by myself' -- I haven't managed to do this for quite a while. At least not since the arrival of our

Comment on The Hindu on MH370

April 2, 2014 |  MH370 
I sent another comment to [The Hindu](http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/race-against-time-in-search-for-missing-flight-mh370/article5857747.ece?homepage=true) on MH370 disappearance and the recent developments around it which they published.

Crazy idea

March 21, 2014 |  MH370  critter-cam 
Here's a crazy idea on how to increase the chances of locating the missing plane. This is based on the assumption that the flight had indeed crashed in the ocean as many experts seem to believe. If the creatures do find us the missing plane, we humans give

MySQL Post Install Setup

Dec. 24, 2013 |  linux  MySQL 
After MySQL is installed, either as part of Ubuntu Server installation sequence or separately through an appropriate apt-get command, it needs to be properly initialized for use by a client. One key concept of any standalone database engine is that they ha

Linux Command Output Redirection Rules

Dec. 24, 2013 |  ubuntu  linux  redirection 
Here's another thing that I learned today -- command output redirection syntax. In other words: This is how things work on Ubuntu and bash. Other shells could very well be different.