QtMyAdmin. It appears that QtMyAdmin is a nice desktop version of the popular PHPMyAdmin, used to administery MySQL from a nice… [Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]
New Desktop MySQL Tool
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It’s a Beautiful Day
Hanging here at home. Had some Ceylon Kenilworth tea from Tealuxe, some ‘Mill Bread’ some Stop and Shop, and the morning read of the Sunday Boston Globe. Good stuff.
Off to write Joke Newsletters and think about yardwork….
A Huge Achievement
Bonds Joins an Exclusive Club. Barry Bonds hit his 600th home run on Friday night. Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays are the only other players to reach that mark. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Hacking the Enemy
Wired. Hilarious story about the guy who took control of Al-Qaida’s official website. This isn’t so funny:
>>>When Messner took control of alneda.com, he immediately contacted federal authorities. “The frustrating part was that it took me five days to actually talk to someone (in the FBI) who had a working knowledge of the Internet, and by that time the opportunity was gone. <<< [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
Java in Columbia
Hanging at a local starbucks here across from the district offices for Baltimore & the suburban Maryland district working on my presentation for the 2002 IAFCI Conference.
Silly me left the CDROMs with the presentation material on someone’s desk yesterday, so I can’t complete most of the things that I was looking to do this morning with the presentations. A good two hours wasted. Silly, silly me.
The coffee is damn good though.
It’s Morning in Columbia, Maryland
Didn’t want to get up, and running things over stupid little dialup connection really sucks.
Confidentiality
A bit more to the center of this issue, I sit…
There’s a time and place for secrecy in government. The recent release of classified information about potential war plans in Iraq are dangerous – not that the military or the Defense Department isn’t subject to civilian oversight – but because they reveal potential tactics and plans that would be used in the event of war. This endangers the lives of our men and women and risks the failure of a military campaign. It’s a criminal act with severe consequences, and I’m completely comfortable with that.
Don Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense, has ordered an investigation of these leaks – and I, for one, hope the person is identified, prosecuted, convicted, and rots in a cell.
Now that I’ve said that, I do believe in open government. Our government agencies must be responsibile to civilian authorities, and ultimately to us, as citizens… But in my mind, military information or intelligence information such as this must remain classified for years to come…
Now, some folks in the government are pissed off that information is being “leaked” to the public. So I ask you this. Why is it that the government thinks it can do all kinds of super secret squirrel stuff, but then it also thinks it’s OK to SNOOP on Americans??? That damned Patriot Act says that they can much more easily intrude on our private lives…our secrets…but yet THEY expect to be able to keep all THEIR secrets? Hmmmm. [kerri News]