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Nine months into 2017, and the world is still alive. North Korea is marching towards putting a nuclear warhead on its ICBM. Rodrigo Duterte by credible reporting has killed his 13,000 drug addicts and other drug related criminals. Children and by-standers were killed in various operations since he was elected president.

The Republican party is still trying to kill Obamacare or the US healthcare law passed by Obama in his first term.

Hugh Hefner died. He is the founder of the Playboy empire, a business built around the persona of Mr. Hefner.

The siege of the city of Marawi continues. The military has reduced the fighting into a one hectare city property which continues to take soldiers' lives. The military has been surprised by the locally born and ISIS inspired Mautes. The weapons they have recovered so far are from their own inventory. There are a lot of questions about how these terrorists acquired the bulk of their guns and explosives.

This month's expenses breached the 32,000 threshold. My food expenses breached the 11,000 for the first time. September has 5 Saturdays which means our market days are five instead of the normal four.

iphone 8, Asus Zenfone 4, Samsung Note 8 are now out and available for orders. I just got some trickling of reports that iphone 8 owners are experiencing splitting open and / or bursting out of their newly bought units. Otherwise, reviews of these products were all positive.

Mexico was hit by two strong earthquakes within 12 days. Both earthquakes registered beyond intensity 7 and occurred near Mexico city. Two big hurricanes occurred this month, one hit Texas from the Gulf Coast and the other hit South Florida from the Atlantic. A third hurricane is rampaging over Cuba as I post this.

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Mailvelope, Encryption for Webmail

Encryption is the topic of week. I wrote about it in a related post here. While encryption is a very good idea, doing it and doing it every day as part of your work flow is another thing. My view is that if you're already using an email client then it is easier, simpler and more convenient to adopt encryption. That is not the case if you're using a webmail service. If you are using the browser to check, compose and send your email, what are your options? The answer is: it's complicated. Looking for a way to do encryption with Google Chrome and Gmail, I found this. I also read that Google just released code for email encryption as open source. But it's a long way to being used by end users. The extension for Google Chrome works fine if the recipient also uses Google Chrome. But I went ahead and check this on Evolution.

Donald Trump Is The 45th President of the United States

and he is preparing to move with his transition team into the Oval Office. His election is a shock to many political observers and the world in general. Donald Trump, the president-elect, ran against Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and for many the most qualified candidate for the presidency in many years. This has led to many post election analysis of how this upset happened. The numbers of votes for each candidate and the comparisons with previous presidential elections point to the fact that the white vote for Mr. Trump is solid all throughout but the minority and black votes did not come for Mrs. Clinton. This is what happened in crucial States like Michigan and Florida. The Republicans kept Congress and the Senate. It is quite notable that Russia and in particular, Vladimir Putin, is happy that they are going to talk to Mr. Trump rather than Mrs. Clinton. It is also a ...

Webapps in Unity

So it has been 4 months since Ubuntu 14.04 came out. This is LTS and supported for 6 years by Canonical. The first mobile device with Ubuntu pre-installed is promised to come out later this year, 2014. It's time to check out how the apps perform so far. It is a good idea. I use Gmail and Twitter and Facebook. Why not a webapp in a desktop? So I start the Twitter and Gmail webapp. So far it has crashed my computer 6 times. Not a very good sign. On the other hand it does work but not as stable as opening them in Firefox. -- Use my PGP key if you want to encrypt your replies/messages to me. You are invited to also send me your PGP keys so we can communicate in private.

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