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Wednesday, March 02, 2005
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Somehow I missed that MySQL Administrator was now available for OS X. I found it this morning when wondering idly if there was a new version out for Windows. There was, and I downloaded both versions. At first glance, anyway, it looks like they've done a great job of the OS X version. Its appearance is faithful both the OS X and to the design of the program in Windows, and it reminds you of System Preferences in the look and placement of the icons. This is going to be an essential tool for me.
Now if they'd just get the Query Browser out for OS X. The Windows version in general isn't as good as SQLyog, but it's still better than the other Mac clients. (I wish developers of SQL clients would talk to someone who writes queries all day about the design of their prodcuts; a long email to the developers of MacSQL has so far gone ignored. I'll post it here one day.)
11:00:52 AM 
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US: Pulitzer winner resigns with harsh criticism of the American press: "
In leaving her post at the New York paper, Newsday, Pulitzer Prize winner Laurie Garrett left a scathing memo about the state of journalism in the United States, reports Editor & Publisher. The root of the problem, according to Garrett, began about ten years ago when profits became the main concern of newspapers; 'The leaders of Times Mirror and Tribune have proven to be mirrors of a general trend in the media world: They serve their stockholders first, Wall St. second and somewhere far down the list comes service to newspaper readerships.' She continues with a brief history of the decline of investigative journalism forced on the press by 'massive corporations,' and relates her own experiences to this view with anecdotes of 'whiskey-swilling' editors and reporters of 'blue collar backgrounds' that 'would have been cops or firefighters' had they not taken up journalism. Garrett declares the boardroom takeover of the press as 'terrible for democracy' and 'attest(s) to the horrible impact the deterioration of journalism has had on the national psyche.' She ends the memo on a hopeful note, saying that there still remains the opportunity to save quality journalism, but that it's going to take effort by reporters 'to tell the stories, dig the dirt and bring (the readers) the news.' Let's hope that Ms. Garrett's memo has the effect that it was meant to have; persuading board members concerned with money that the way to a profitable paper lies in quality investigating and reporting; persuading editors not to succumb to greedy boards, allowing their reporters to search for the truth; and persuading journalists to forget about the 'scandal-for-the sake of scandal crap that sells,' returning to the 'honesty and tenacity' that journalism is all about.
Source: Editor and Publisher
(Via editorsweblog.org.)
8:48:00 AM
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Electronic Anklets Track Asylum Seekers in U.S.: "Under a controversial pilot program from the Department of Homeland Security, immigrants awaiting appeals on their applications to remain in the United States must wear electronic monitors 24 hours a day. Critics say the program infringes on the civil liberties of people who haven't committed a crime."
(Via NPR's Morning Edition.)
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