Tue 12 January 2010 | tags: autocomplete, bolognese, boyfriend, dailylinks, girlfriend, google, harryreid, johnmcwhorter, mysql, obama, recipe, secondlife, -- (permalink)

What I've been reading lately:

• Reid's Three Little Words: The Log In Our Own Eye | The New Republic
  • The best-reasoned reaction I've seen yet to Harry Reid's "negro dialect" comment. But I still can't help feeling that if Reid were a Republican, most of his present apologists would be silent, and his current attackers would be his defenders. I hope someday we can all grow up enough to stop making a huge deal when a politician uses a taboo word like this. I'm not holding my breath though.
• What Boyfriends and Girlfriends Search for on Google - Just what you'd expect, but still fun to see it laid out so starkly. Found via Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution.
• Ragù alla Bolognese (Classic Bolognese Meat Sauce) | Eating Well - I made a big batch of this yesterday and froze most of it for quick dinners later. Very very good.
• Diary of a Paranoid Mysql Upgrade
  • Some advanced MySQL-fu here.