We just had a wonderful holiday in a rented cottage in Scotland - and they have a website - http://www.cliff-cottage-grogport.co.uk/.

It's a very nice cottage with fantastic views over the sea - and perfect for sea kayaking. I actually saw seals during my first trip out in the kayak.

The cottage even had a perfect little storage space for the kayaks.

I'm very sad to see that LWC (Lightsoft Weather Center) is shutting down due to health problems - it's a really good weather center, eht only really good one I've found for Osx.

The announcement

A central service in our home automation system is provided by Memcache - a in-memory "database" that sits on one of our servers and is available to all the various components of the home monitoring/home automation system.

All measurement points and other information that should be available to other software is registered here - and it currently looks like this if I dump out the contents

every line is a key/value pair where the part before the "=" equals sign is the label, and everything after this is the value(s).

In my hobby work on house information/house automation for our house I needed somewhere to store all the most recent data collected from various sensors and systems, in such a way that it would be accessible from any computer on our extended network. And I chose to use Memcached - as it is running purely in memory, and by its very nature is fast and accessible over the network.

It's data is not persistent after a crash - but I had no need for this, as I collect data very frequently, and persistence was not needed.

Here is a recent output from a dump of data stored in memcached :

It's rained a bit..