The privacy furor over Google Buzz demonstrates the social ineptitude of the minds behind Facebook, Google and other companies trying to be a social-networking site. They can be brilliant programmers, but they will never understand human psychology.

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Sometimes I get a good workout where my core muscles (to which I refer as the abdomen) feel sore afterward. Today, I don't have the soreness, but I got a workout a different way. There was a Japanese guy who threw me quite hard. I didn't tell him to slow down because I wanted to challenge myself to take it. I wanted to show myself as tough and ( Read more... )

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The way people write can be mind-boggling. No wonder not many want to be teachers. But I like the use of the word fake, like bogus, it's very unique.
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I got a sense of the degree of spitefulness of our Sensei Shihan, but this is without knowing more. Apparently, our Sensei Shihan and another Sensei Shihan from what was known as USAF Western Region got into a big fight, leading to our B. Aikikai to split from that organization.
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Li-Wen told me about what Marianne Sensei always kept saying, and I had to look it up because she didn't know how to spell it. I tried to look up the Japanese word for smoothness, but didn't find anything. I decided to look for any word associated with aikido. I found ki no nagare. I think that is the word.
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