Vacation

Been on vacation the last week so no updates. Its been nice to unplug. We went to NYC which isn't really a great place to unwind but its a great place and I had a great time. Its a great town for technology too - no matter what your gadget fetish is you see loads of it on the streets and subways. I like to see how Tablets have really integrated into people's lives - and not just people who work in IT but just regular folks who were using an IPad to surf the web on the train. I even saw one guy use his IPad as a camcorder on top of the Empire State Building. I don't know what type of results he got but I hope it worked out for him.

This isn't the best picture but its of several hundred people who are all participating in a group yoga exercise in Time Square. Something about it just screamed 'Modern Existence' to me. On one hand Time Square is the worst place to do yoga - much less in a huge group, but on the other hand it seemed ok. And to steal a phrase - 'If you can do yoga in New York you can do yoga anywhere'.

Another thing I did while on vacation was catch up on some fun sci-fi reading by starting The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

Its a really good book if you like sci-fi - especially cyberpunk like William Gibson. It won the Hugo and Nebula awards last year. While reading it I had a couple of ideas for my NoSql blog. One idea centers around the use of using the neo4j graph db to create a nice association graph amongst all the characters you meet in the beginning of the Novel as well as who they work for. The book takes place in Thailand and there are Thai, Chinese, Japanese, and American characters. There are enough characters introduced early on that it would be useful to have a resource showing how they are all linked. This is where neo4j fits in. On the neo4j website they show an example of a similar graph for the Matrix movies which looks like:

 

Until Next Time

Cheers,

TheSortedProgrammer