Midweek morning musings

The best way to start the day when you are trying to lose weight is a glass of Kefir, a microwavable sandwich and a shot of Godiva Mocha liqueur. Especially the Godiva Mocha liqueur. Just enough to give you a sweet little kick to start the day off before you hit the gym for some exercise, and not enough to make the exercise be in vain. Gotta love the Kefir too, as a single glass of that has about 28% of your recommended allowance of protein!

Is it just me, or are we starting to look more and more like we're going to have a Republican candidate for each state? I'm not worried about Romney winning Michigan because let's face it. Any Republican who comes to that state, offering to bail out one of their key industries, and the only one that keeps Detroit going, is going to get a lot of sympathy votes. Maybe Ron Paul will end up taking a few states like Montana along the way. My prediction is that Huckabee will be the winner in South Carolina unless he gets hit with scandals that make him like too much like a Republican version of Bill Clinton.

The federal government is getting more serious about being able to coerce private encryption keys from people who are on trial. Their case is not entirely without merit, as a warrant to search a laptop would be analogous to a warrant to search your house. The only thing that worries me about this case, is the distinct probability that they will demand the right to coerce people into turning over their encryption keys before they have good reason to believe they could get a valid warrant.

MySQL has been bought out by Sun Microsystems. So what, you say? Well, MySQL happens to be the most common database server in use by website hosting companies, which means that a great deal of bloggers depend on it. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this is probably a good thing for MySQL. It's already a quality product, even if it is every limited in functionality compared to Oracle or Microsoft SQLServer. With Sun's backing, we might see it really start to catch up with Oracle, and it'll probably not have to deal with Oracle's tendency to try to buy out every company that makes a new engine for MySQL.