wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: October, 2002

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The Moscow theatre seige, another suicide bomber in the West Bank, the sniper here in the US: I’m sick of all of it. I’ve made the mistake of following the news of late, and it’s dragging me down. I’m speechless. I just wish it would all end. I wish people would find a way to [...]

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If you run MySQL (and you should, you know), check out MyCC, it’s a nice graphical front end. Even if you’re like me and prefer to do most of your SQL work from the command line, MyCC still comes in handy for checking out the structure of databases. It’s still in alpha, but it’s really [...]

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Postmodernists on Jerry Springer had me laughing out loud. And for the bass players in the crowd, playthebass.com has some great desktop pics and some nice staff paper and neck diagram PDFs worth printing out.

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Yesterday, former president Bill Clinton gave a speech here in Fayetteville as part of a statue dedication ceremony in honor of former senator J. William Fulbright. It was quite a moving speech, actually, even for those of us who have grown fairly cynical about politics in general. I haven’t found a full text to link [...]

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Looks like Coudal is back (warning: longest pageload ever), after being offline for quite a while. Saw The Devil’s Backbone last night–a really scarry very beautifully shot Spanish ghost/horror film. I never have very high expectations of horror flicks in terms of cinematography, but this one takes no prisoners. Steve links a great story about [...]