Entries for February 2009
Storing Schema-less data in MySQL
I have thought about doing something like this before, and the index scheme is quite interesting actually. I would love to try something like this to see how well it worked.
Posted on Fri. February 27, 2009 by Ryan Guill #
Smart Switch
Take a household light switch, network it to the powergrid and make it give resistance when trying to turn it on when the powergrid is under load. The more power being used the harder it is to turn on. You can network it to either your homes energy usage, or the grid as a whole. Pretty neat concept.
Posted on Wed. February 25, 2009 by Ryan Guill #
New F1 Racing Rules and Cars
Wired has the low down on the new F1 racing rules and cars and a nifty video from the Red Bull team explaining it all. I might have to watch more F1 racing.
Posted on Wed. February 18, 2009 by Ryan Guill #
Superbowl Twitter Analysis
Pretty neat infographic from nytimes showing twitter usage across the country during the superbowl. The more I use twitter the more the value of things like this really start to show. For such a simple service it has some rather large overall uses.
Posted on Tue. February 03, 2009 by Ryan Guill #