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Sunday, October 29, 2006
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The MySQL distribution provides several tools for database developers and administrators, but they don't always work everywhere. Fortunately, the worldwide MySQL community has produced plenty of useful tools. Baron Schwartz surveys the possibilities and offers suggestions for what you should use.
(Via O'Reilly Network ONJava.com.)
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The good book tells us how to torture.
5:35:37 PM
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Interesting list of items, perhaps hints that we're not alone. Despite what some apparent nutcases say, though, UFOs and faces in the rocks are not evidence of ETs.
1:14:35 PM
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I very much enjoyed The Prestige. By concentrating on the real and avoiding, at least apparently, lots of CGI, it steered clear of a problem The Illusionist had, of not being very believable. (Though at the core of the McGuffin in The Prestige is a healthy dose of fantasy.) The good thing about the movie is the way you remember, a few hours after seeing it, how they set up the ending. It's always a pleasure seeing Michael Caine these days, as well as Scarlett Johansson, though she's pretty forgettable here. Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale are good, and since I didn't know it was coming, David Bowie's turn as Nikola Tesla was fun. Recommended.
11:11:01 AM
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Frank Rich:
There is no new American plan to counter the apocalypse now playing out in Iraq, only new packaging to pacify American voters between now and Nov. 7. And recycled packaging at that: President Bush had last announced that he and Mr. Maliki were developing “benchmarks” to “measure progress” in Iraq back in June...
...One way or another the various long-shot exit scenarios being debated in the capital will be sorted out: federalism and partition; reaching out somehow for help from Iran and Syria; replacing Mr. Maliki with a Saddam-lite strongman. There will be some kind of timeline, or whatever you want to call it, with enforced benchmarks, or whatever you want to call them, for phased withdrawal. (Read “Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now” by George McGovern and William R. Polk for a particularly persuasive blueprint.) In any event, the timeline will end no later than Inauguration Day 2009.
In keeping with the political cynicism that gave birth to this war and has recklessly prolonged it, the only ones being kept in the dark about this inevitable denouement are our fighting men and women. They remain trapped, dying in accelerating numbers in a civil war that is now killing so many Iraqi civilians that Mr. Maliki this month ordered his health ministry to stop releasing any figures.
Our troops are held hostage by the White House’s political imperatives as much as they are by the violence. Desperate to maintain the election-year P.R. ruse that an undefined “victory” is still within reach, Mr. Bush went so far at Wednesday’s press conference as to say that “absolutely, we’re winning” in Iraq...
...The ultimate chutzpah is that Mr. Bush, the man who sold us Saddam’s imminent mushroom clouds and “Mission Accomplished,” is trivializing the chaos in Iraq as propaganda.
(Via Rising Hegemon.)
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