Postgres.app

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Recently I followed a link to http://postgresapp.com/ and was intrigued by what I saw.

Postgres

Not just the icon, which is nice, but the actual app itself. Go ahead and check out the site for more accurate information, but basically it comes down to this:

  1. Download the file
  2. Unarchive it
  3. Move Postgres.app to your /Applications folder
  4. Start up the app
  5. …
  6. Profit!?

That’s it. You then have a fully-functioning install of PostgreSQL 9.1+ for your Mac. To update, you go ahead and download the next version, shut off the currently-running one, and then move the new one over to /Applications again.

Super nice.

There is a ton more information at their documentation page, so head on over to find out more. This is a HUGE win as far as simplicity when installing PostgreSQL so that you can begin work on applications for Heroku (who just announced their free development database built on PostgreSQL 9.1). Head on over and try it out.

Ag Reality

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The Star Tribune recently ran an editorial by Susan Hogan titled When political rhetoric trumps child safety. Basically, she is upset about how corporate interests have killed proposed rules to protect children under 16 working as farmhands.

I’m not taking issue with the proposed rules here, but I am taking issue with where she perceives the problem coming from. Here is the problem paragraph for me:

But to abandon the entire safety reform effort because of public outcry from special-interest groups put political gain above children’s well-being, and that should never be the case.

Special interest groups? Those “special interest groups” are mainly family farms and farmers. Those are the people who were going to be hurt the most with these new rules and, rightly by my estimation, felt it as an overreach by the government.

If family farms are special interest groups, then every person is a special interest group. This is just ridiculous and a case of the person completely missing the point.

Awkward Years

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Please go and read “That’s Why You Don’t Have Any Friends” by Joe Peacock. One of the best reads on the web for quite some time.

I can relate to much of what he talked about and I would give the exact same advice to anyone who was dealing with the issues of not “fitting in” during the ridiculous and hyped teen or adolescent years.

Please read it and, like I am planning on doing, take to heart what Joe says because you never know when you are going to need to tell someone that you love those exact same words because they are “weird”.

But weird, is good.

George Lucas is an Idiot

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I used to worship George Lucas because of the original Star Wars Trilogy.

However, I don’t think there is another person who has fallen out of favor with me as far as Lucas has over the years. It started with The Phantom Menace and has only gotten worse.

This article (from /Film), though, cements the decline as inexcusable. Here is the pertinent quote for you:

Entertainment blogger David Poland recalls Lucas’ comment on Wednesday at the Publicist’s Guild luncheon: “George Lucas, giving the award to Sid Ganis, who was the in-house publicist on Star Wars: Episode Five – The Empire Strikes Back, said, ‘Sid is the reason why The Empire Strikes Back is always written about as the best of the films, when it actually was the worst one.’”

Empire as the worst one? THE WORST ONE!? You’ve got to be kidding me.

No wonder the prequels were so terrible.