I had hoped to write a post on complexity this evening, but I got occupied with other things, not the least of which was trying to get my resurrected iPod functional again.

In previous versions of iTunes, I could duplicate the files between my PCs and my Mac, and there was no issue. Now, with the latest version, the music library of the PC is not recognized by the Mac. In other words, simply mirroring the directories and files doesn’t keep the iTunes library identical on the two platforms any more.

So, I’ve been spending a lot of time this evening trying to puzzle out how to make it work.

I don’t have enough time to write about complexity tonight, not if I want to sleep!

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…but perhaps not anticipated by some, using a reference that only old, true-blue fans of the show will really get, I am not Spock, either…

Take the Star Trek Quiz

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Always in control, you are a great leader, deligator, and diplomat. These qualities attract people to you, and this sometimes annoys you.

Aloof, introspective, and philosophical; you enjoy quiet time in solitude.

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From Scientific American.com:

DNA Sequencing Speeds Up

Some of the implications of fast DNA sequencing were explored in the movie Gattica.

Interesting.

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…here is an FYI for you:

U.S. burned in branding survey

Overseas Consumers Increasingly Shunning U.S. Brand Name Products

The decline and decline of Brand America

Read all of them, thoroughly, and then stop looking through the prism of your own beliefs to see how the rest of the world views America.

And think about how that just might affect us economically.

We won the Cold War through our economic strengths.

We sustain our powerful military through our world-leading economy.

What if the economy is no longer world-leading?

Do the math, in this case, both figuratively and literally.

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