Jamie’s Weblog

We live to see another 50 years Scientists now believe that the astoroid 2002 NT7 will not destroy a continent on February 1, 2019. February 1, 2060 is still dubious though.

The Jade scale of stupidity I guess this will only work in the UK/Ireland with those people who are aware of this character from the latest Big Brother series. Quotes like “Rio de Janeiro, ain’t that a person?”, “Is Tunisia near India?” among other classics have defined Jade as the ultimate in stupidity. From now [...]

Help! There’s a LEGO woman in my mouse That’s right, from the field of pointless yet amazing mods comes this one. Simply brilliant.

I see you…! Scientists have discovered an astoroid which they believe might impact earth in 2019. The BBC wonders if we can deflect it whilst the experts are less sensational. At least they spotted this one before it passed us by.

A quick note… I’ve been away at AAMAS (Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems) conference in Italy. I’ll have to catch up with the email and news and the compose something interesting here. BTW, my paper from the Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on embedded, wearable, and mobile devices is now available. The rest of the papers [...]

music of the moment Off topic I know, but the new Counting Crows album is good. I’m hoping for some good sunny whether at Slane this year. See also The Calling, Papa Roach and A for some more great tunes. Update: music to program to – A, W.D.Y.C.A.I. (track 11)

Scottish otters defend their homeland! Something to make you laugh.

3G Licences Hutchinson paid ?27m for the top licence here in Ireland. They paid �4 billion (?6.6 billion) for the top licence in the UK. I’m not sure what this means though. Certainly, it appears one was great value, the other a complete rip-off.

Useless Cool Things? Much has been made of the warchalking buzz at the moment but to me the best quote goes to Wired “Warchalking is perhaps the coolest thing going on that no one is using.” — Wired (my emphasis added) Isn’t it interesting how something so cool (at least for geeks) can be so [...]

ICANN, you can’t Here’s an excellent interview with John Gilmore about the current mess with ICANN, the body in charge of domain registrations. My favourite quote: They wish the U.S. didn’t try to treat the world as the U.S.’s own private playground, but then again it’s not wise to piss off the world’s only superpower. [...]