So, here’s an interesting Java issue I came about last week. Java EE supports annotating methods using an @Transactional annotation. If you’re familiar with it, it’s similar to the synchronized keyword except on the database level. It also is if you’re not familiar with synchronized. Transactional supports setting how transactions should be picked up – […]
Rainternet of Things
I got myself a BloomSky Sky 2 weather station on Kickstarter. It’s pretty neat. It measures all kinds of weather things, like temperature and humidity, and snaps pictures of the sky every 3 minutes during the day. The thing is cloud connected, which is hilarious because it’s about weather. That means it uploads weather information […]
An Interesting Statistical Tidbit
You’re probably more likely to die from stressing over SARS than from SARS, even if you go licking every coughing person in the face to get all their delicious germs. […]
Time-lapse the sky
Got myself a weather station which makes time-lapse videos of the sky. That, or it's an expensive device spitting out 3-frame repeating gifs of rain. […]
Window Cleaning
Conjecture: everything can be gadgetized. It's a good thing. […]
Podcasts I Like
According to folklore, video killed the radio star. Then Youtube killed video. I’m not sure how podcasts fit into this, but here we are. During my one-year stint with biking 3-4 hours a day, I started listening to a ton of stuff: music, audio books and podcasts. It is not my impression that podcasts ever really […]