Archive for November, 2008

Experiencing my first snow sho…

Experiencing my first snow shower.


At natick mall, its a madhouse…

At natick mall, its a madhouse. What global recession are you talking about?


links for 2008-11-28

tf–idf – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tf–idf weight (term frequency–inverse document frequency) is a weight often used in information retrieval and text mining. This weight is a statistical measure used to evaluate how important a word is to a document in a collection or corpus. The importance increases proportionally to the number of times a [...]


Happy thanksgiving to all! Por…

Happy thanksgiving to all! Pork shoulder is in the oven!


links for 2008-11-25

Bonus roast recipes: Cuban Style Pork Shoulder, Oven-roasted Tri-tip, Roast Leg of Lamb | www.rgj.com | Reno Gazette-Journal
(tags: cooking recipe food dining pork cuba)


At Mellow Mushroom drinking gr…

At Mellow Mushroom drinking great beer.


Just left my house in Orlando …

Just left my house in Orlando realizing I have a ton of stuff to give away.


links for 2008-11-20

Databases and Life » Reading row-by-row into Java from MySQL
(tags: performance mysql java database query tuning memory jdbc programming)


@bwente something blow up?

@bwente something blow up?


Off to Orlando!

Off to Orlando!


Heading out to take dog for wa…

Heading out to take dog for walk hopefully nothing will freeze off.


links for 2008-11-19

Database sharding unraveled – part III : Lifescaler
(tags: scaling scalability mysql grid database sharding)

Java Tips – Array-based Queue Implementation in Java
In providing services in computer science, transport, and operations research a queue is a buffer where various entities such as data, objects, persons, or events are stored and waiting to be processed. The most well [...]


@brebrookesmom it’s 25 here, i…

@brebrookesmom it’s 25 here, instantly freezing all hobos


I guess irony can be pretty ir…

I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.


links for 2008-11-13

The Amateur Gourmet – The Best Broccoli of Your Life
(tags: Broccoli vegetarian sidedish roasting food recipes dinner vegetable)