A walk in the park

I woke up this morning to find that it was snowing. I thought great, I will go for a walk in the park which will help me think about a problem I am currently having with ext js.

Anyway, I took my daughter to the kindergarten and then put on my headphones and went for a walk in the park. At 9:30 I came across these guys who were already on the ice having a game (what is bowling on ice called?). Now these guys are comitted though not to a job. Good for them.

9:30 in the morning and the diehards are out already.

So I walked on and started thinking about everything but the current task on hand. I was listening to a podcast where Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton was discussing the crisis of American foreign policy. An interesting talk that I will not go into here, but for reference's sake it can be found here.

I very much liked the way she spoke though I did not agree with her on all the points (that I understood :-) however I looked her up and she was one of the lawyers who helped the Sandinista goverment of Nicaragua bring suit against the US in the International Court of Justice in 1986. Little known fact, and hardly publicised in the US but the Court ruled n favour of Nicaragua after the US lost its argument that the ICJ lacked jurisdiction to hear the case and refused to participate. It (US) later blocked enforcement.

The court found in its legal verdict that the US was:

  • "in breach of its obligations under customary international law not to use force against another State",
  • "not to intervene in its affairs",
  • "not to violate its sovereignty",
  • "not to interrupt peaceful maritime commerce", and
  • "in breach of its obligations under Article XIX of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the Parties signed at Managua on 21 January 1956."

And I thought I had problems with getting extjs v2.2 to run v1 code, huh!?

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