The Happy Moron

From the BBC website…

I’m surprised it’s not because they “scored more goals than their opponents in every match”.
Tongue out of cheek, “the best football” is a meaningful piece of jargon which refers to the aesthetic quality of the game and not necessarily brute efficiency at putting the ball in the net.
Also significant is the word [...]

Here’s a simple way to destroy a million dollars. As a bonus, it also has to do with baseball.
No, I’m not talking about waltzing into a museum with a baseball bat and taking care of some ancient pottery (although that’s fun too).
Take a sack and fill it with 99 new baseballs, all of the same [...]

… Are a great example of security defeating itself.
Elevator doors have a fantastic security feature: they are equipped with sensors that cause them to retract if something is blocking them. Elevator doors that cut people in half when they closed would not be a good thing.
So how is this self defeating? I take the elevator [...]

From the docs…

public interface EntityManager

Interface used to interact with the persistence context. An EntityManager instance is associated with a persistence context. A persistence context is a set of entity instances in which for any persistent entity identity there is a unique entity instance. Within the persistence context, the entity instances and their lifecycle are managed. [...]

Yes, readers. There’s a reason you keep coming back here.
It’s because you heard it here first.

This is an interesting story.
Well, I admit that I don’t find gardens particularly interesting. It does tickle my fancy, however, that a story about elevated gardens is actually about low-hanging fruit.
The story is a valuable reminder that there are a great many things which we won’t do or simply don’t do; great ideas left unimplemented because [...]

A quick browse of my tag cloud reveals that I seem to care about privacy online.
Most of my griping is centered around Facebook. I don’t have anything against Facebook in particular, it’s simply a glaring example of where privacy (or lack thereof) and the internet collide.
But frankly, I wouldn’t be too surprised if Facebook failed [...]