Install MySQL on Mac OS X. It’s not as scary as I expected.

update: I just spent way too long fighting with “Error 1045: Access for user … denied” messages. When assigning users to the MySQL database, use this page, Adding New Users to MySQL, as a guide, it worked on the first try.

another update:Using PHP to send HTTP headers which will post variables without using forms.

I finally posted a preliminary version of War Strolling & Cabbing.

Last week was a good week for aliens and a bad week for cows.

UFOs visited sacred sites and tourist attractions in Sri Lanka, Chile declared an official UFO tourism zone, and Scotland claims to have the most reported sightings each year.

Argentine cattle mutilations continued (in English, some background with graphic photos, ew.), Ranchers are freaking out and the Argentine government is sending a team of scientists to study the dead cattle.

Chinese scientists are also on their way to study a group of Chinese pyramids known as the “ET Relics“, said by locals to be a launch tower left by space aliens. Chinese pyramids? I had no idea there were pyramids in China!

Not to be left out, residents of South Carolina even got a (floating) piece of the action which is apparently unconnected to these strange round objects which washed ashore in New Hampshire.

Otherwise, the more conventional UFO sightings continue. These people have a lot of work to do.
Thanks to New World Disorder for getting this all started. And yes, I do find these reports amusing. A version of this posting is also on MetaFilter

Followup to yesterday’s post: CNN has posted Victims of Terror, a moving collection of photos and brief obituaries of civilians killed in terrorist attacks in Israel this year. One of the things that struck me, besides too many photos of children and the elderly, was the victims’ surprisingly diverse backgrounds. It reminded me of Portraits of Grief, the obituaries of September 11th victims published by the New York Times. Apparently, like America, the face of Israel mirrors the face of the world.

CNN also published a bizarre statistical estimation “based on a per capita comparison” of how many people would have been killed in other countries in comparable attacks. What exactly is the point of this? One is too many. A better thought experiment would be to pick a group four or five tables from a crowded restaurant, and then try to imagine all of those people blown to pieces in the next moment. Think about that every time the waiter asks how you’re doing.

An excellent introductory tutorial on MySQL and PHP. This would have been helpful to me last night…

“CNN is … fair, we’re responsible in our reporting, we try to be as accurate as we possibly can be.” I thought that was the tagline for Fox News?

Disgusting that CNN had to be threatened with losing the Israeli markets to Fox before admitting suicide bombing is absolutely barbaric, inexcusable and threatens all civilization. I wonder if CNN’s Eason Jordan worried for his safety when his bosses sent him to Jerusalem? He should be worried, but that fear shouldn’t be contained to Israel. The World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks were suicide bombings, but most Americans still seem to think of September 11th as a moment of weakness and of suicide bombings as a foreign problem that can’t happen here. I wish I were that optimistic.

Why is the telephone touch-tone key pad arranged differently from the calculator key pad? Similar, shorter answer

here.

And now back to wondering about less trivial things…