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It was summer and I was craving pork. Not just any pork, but Tails and Trotters pork -- fed with hazelnuts and absolutely delicious. I somehow convinced my lovely partner-in-crime to split the cost of half of a pig; there was only one problem, we had a freezer but its pedigree was entirely unknown. Rather than take a chance on losing a whole lot of yummy a plan was hatched: we'd bring the freezer into the 21st century (or at least the monitoring of it).

Often times, I don't get to get my hands dirty at work. Not being one to let myself atrophy, I keep my eyes out for new and exciting things to catch my fancy, and spend hours and hours writing new code: usually reinventing the wheel, often times poking and prodding, just trying to figure out what I'm going to do with what I find.

One of the projects that caught my eye a bit over a year ago was CouchDB, a RESTful document storage engine, that happens to have Map/Reduce support. Being the database freak that I am, I started thinking about all of the projects I've worked on in the past that could have been improved with a document model over pseudo-relational databases. So many came to mind, and I was excited about the flexibility of CouchDB; so useful for so many things, especially with strong data analysis abilities via map and reduce.