iPython Notebook on MACBOOK: Solved

the Launcher Install by Anaconda does not launch ipython notebook. this due to locale issues on MAC OS X. hence the fix is change the locale before launching notebook

> export LAN=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> ipython notebook

Its not easy to remember this all the time, hence step 3~5 and because I had issues while installing and the following steps 1 & 2 make life a bit easy