Having a Beastly Time – The Daily WTF

It’s time again for a reader special, and once again it’s all The Beast In Black (there must be a story to that nick, no?).

“MySQL is not better than your SQL,” he pontificated,
“especially when
it comes to the Workbench Migration Wizard”

“Sadly,” says he,
“Not even gmail/chromium either.”

“Updated software is available, but there are no updates!” he puzzled.
“Clicking Install Now just throws
that dialog right back in my face. I’m re-cursing.” Zero, one, does it really make a difference?

“Questions”
The Beast in Black
“I do, in fact, have a question…”

One of the foundational guides to my [lyle, not bib] engineering career
was John Bentley’s Programming Pearls. These are not those.

“Veni, vidi: vc. No pearls of wisdom here, just litter.” says
The Beast.