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Friday, May 21, 2004 |
More on Darfur. The Scotsman has a cluster of reports on Darfur, starting here , which also contains many links to other reports including the one from Human Rights Watch .
“The aim is to kill as many people as possible and drive the remainder from their lands, destroying the fabric of rural society,” reports the specialist journal Africa Confidential. “Proxy militias torch villages and exterminate villagers, slaughtering livestock and poisoning wells with corpses to prevent residents returning. Gang rape of women (often branded afterwards) and children reinforces the terror and helps to produce an ‘Arab’ next generation. Abduction is widespread in Darfur, with groups of women flown away by helicopter.”
[Crooked Timber]
12:59:25 PM Permalink
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A scanner darkly
Erik Davis consults on A Scanner Darkly! [bOing bOing]
According to Davis, the word is good, and the movie is going to be
filmed this summer. He's read the screenplay and says it's more
faithful to Dick than have been other movies. This is exciting, as A
Scanner Darkly is an amazing, dark, funny, paranoid novel aobut a narc
who "goes schizo after being assigned to spy on himself." Something to
look forward too. And it might be a good idea to reread the novel.
10:16:49 AM Permalink
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Navicat Mac
Navicat 5.1 for OS X
is out, and it's a big improvement over the last versions I looked at.
The design seems much cleaner, especially for query writing. As far as
I've seen, it's the best of the database tools for OS X.
In general, I still prefer SQLyog
for Windows. It seems to be more complete. It's easier to write SQL.
SQLyog lets your SQL window contain lots of statements, and you can run
individual statements by selecting them. Navicat appears to run all the
statements in the SQL window, no matter what you have selected. This is
really important for SQL development, as you can keep a record, with
comments, of a lot of statements it might take to accomplish a single
task.
On the other hand, Navicat does a better job of maintaining your SQL
scripts. SQLyog lets you save them as named scripts, but it takes
several clicks to do this, and the interface isn't visible enough to
encourage you to use it enough. Navicat is also 5.0 ready, with support
for stored procedures. But since 5.0 isn't going to be production ready
for some time, this feature is pretty useless for right now, other than
learning about stored procedures. I'd rather have features that make it
more useful for today's versions of MySQL.
Navicat at $95 is also nearly twice as expensive than the $49 SQLyog,
which is a real bargain. Along with Firefox, Komodo, TextPad and
Mail.app, SQLyog is probably my most-used program, and I would gladly
pay twice the price. I probably would with Navicat if it just had a few
more features.
I hope the SQLyog folks get their Mac product out soon;
I switch back and forth between Mac and Windows quite a bit, and would
like to have a better SQL editor for the Mac. In the meantime, it's
probably the best choice for a Mac SQL editor.
10:07:08 AM Permalink
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