Android Timer and UI threads

In the past few days I was trying to create a daemonized timer without too much luck, then after sweating blood I managed to come up with the following code:

public class SampleTimer extends Activity {

 /** Called when the activity is first created. */
 @Override
 public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
  super.onCreate(icicle);
  setContentView(R.layout.yourlayout);

  // we create a new timer
  // arg0 -- String - The timer's name
  // arg1 -- Boolean- Whether the timer should be daemonized
  Timer timer = new Timer("MyTimerName", true);

  timer.schedule(new TimerTask() {
   @Override
   public void run() {
    // method to repeat
    SampleMethod();
   }
  // initial delay is 0 seconds
  // and SampleMethod() will run every
  // 1.8 million milliseconds (30mins)
  }, 0, 1800000);
 }

 private void SampleMethod(){
  // we run a new worker thread on the UI thread
  this.runOnUiThread(worker);
 }

 private Runnable worker = new Runnable() {
  public void run() {
   // do some checks then send notification (upcoming post)
  }
 };
}

This piece of code, without the class container, is actually used in another background thread (in a class which extends Activity and implement Runnable).  I bet if a long-time Java programmer would see my code, would cut my throat, but hey, it works :)

Regex matching code comments - Java

Okay. So I hate Regex for some reason, yet have to use it cos... cos I have to. I spent my whole day trying to figure out a Regex pattern which would match any code comment. I want to strip them off  (i.e. replaceAll(pattern, "")) from CSS files cos they're useless, they take up unnecessary space and bandwidth.

In English. I want this:

/*This is my comment
spanning across multiple lines*/
body {background-color: #000}

to become this:

body {background-color: #000}

Easy, isn't it? It's not that easy as it turned out. I came up with this pattern first; I think this was the child of my own brain, but after all the hours spent trying to find a working pattern, I really don't remember:

(?:/\\*(?:[^*]|(?:\\*+[^*/]))*\\*+/)|(?://.*)

Humm. Looks OK, isn't it? It's not OK. Here's this multiline comment:

/* This is my comment
*  spanning across multiple lines
*  and having asterisks at every new line
*  cos that's cool
*/

If I use (?:/\\*(?:[^*]|(?:\\*+[^*/]))*\\*+/)|(?://.*) like presented below on the above comment block, I will get an awesome stack overflow error (read, I get a nice HTTP500 on Ant):

public static String compress(String s){
  s = s.replaceAll("(?:/\\*(?:[^*]|(?:\\*+[^*/]))*\\*+/)|(?://.*)", "");
  return s;
}

Guess I get an infinite loop.

So I need a better pattern else I'll get SO errors every once in a while. I'm not sure where but I got this pattern:

//.*|(\"(?:\\\\[^\"]|\\\\\"|.)*?\")|(?s)/\\*.*?\\*/

This one works surprisingly well for now. Guess this also has some limitations I'm not aware of right now but at least I don't get SO errors.

Update:
Okay, so it strips relative URLs as well. Awesome :/