Sometimes I have trouble sleeping, and this can have severe consequences the following day, especially if it is a workday. I figured that many techniques must have been devised for helping people fall asleep, especially in high-stakes settings such as sports, the military, certain key value driving professions, etc. So, I asked A.I., and it found this technique that was devised by U.S. track coach Lloyd Bud Winter, to help Olympic athletes relax. This technique was later adopted by the U.S. military, and it can, supposedly, make someone fall asleep within a couple of minutes.

Around the turn of the millennium me and my girlfriend at the time, Angelica, decided to spend an Easter vacation in Aegina, a beautiful and serene little island just south of Athens. During that period of time Angelica was volunteering for the Greek Center for the Protection of Wild Animals (Ελληνικό Κέντρο Περίθαλψης Αγρίων Ζώων / ΕΚΠΑΖ / EKPAZ) in Athens, and we had both been volunteers at Greenpeace Greece for several years already. As such, we were in a sense insiders of the relatively small environmental movement of Greece. So, we were told that while we were in Aegina we could go visit the new facilities of EKPAZ on the island; they would be closed to the public due to Easter, but the personnel would be there, and they would be happy to receive us and show us around.

I went to see a talk by Simon Brown organized by the Amsterdam Java Users Group (JUG) in the (quite awesome, to be honest) facilities of Miro in Amsterdam. (Facilities tour on YouTube)

The previous post in this series is here: Buienradar vs. Buienalarm: 1-0

Below are two screenshots of the two websites as they looked in the morning.

Buienradar was predicting dry weather, Buienalarm was predicting light rain.

Then below them is a photo of the great outdoors, taken from my apartment, in the afternoon.

In our codebase at work, I had to enable DotNet Code Analysis Rule CA1051 "Do not declare visible instance fields". To do that, I had to figure out a way of automatically converting thousands of instance fields to properties. This is how I did it.

I would like to present to the world my latest creation: a cartoon illustration of the saying "too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet".