Jamie’s Weblog

I’m at home for Christmas so blogging will be light. Merry Christmas to all!

Damn it! When will people learn that fish are more important than fishermen? Because without fish, fishermen wouldn’t exist! And disappointingly, it is Ireland that is chiefly to blame.

Just got this email from Hilary who’s suffering from a sore throat and has almost lost her voice: Wahoo!! I love email cos I can talk and talk and talk and I don?t sound stupid… I have nothing to say

Unlucky guy Nelson Minar seems to have had about as much luck as me with the companys he’s worked for – although I don’t see his current employer folding. I wish I could be so confident about mine.

The Google Viewer Google Labs have released yet another interesting service, the Google Viewer. Simply enter your search and watch a slideshow of the results!

I recently switched from Sun’s Forte back to JBuilder Personal after a 18 months away from it. I love Forte – it has all the really cool development tools which developers want and need but doesn’t cost you a thing. You can write JSPs, J2ME midlets, have multiple JVM’s, etc etc. Borland make you pay [...]

ShowShifter Version 2 has just been released. This is a great “home media center” product which combined TV, Video, DVD, CD, MP3 and Photo viewer in one TV-readable, IR remote navigable interface. I have used v1.7 since May and had numerous problems with multiple DVD codecs (causing SS to crash) and TV recording causing a [...]

and bodies on the slightly modified template. Hope you like!

Always-on GPRS The promise of GPRS was that we would have an “always-on” connection to the internet. Dial-up costs and delays associated with WAP and CSD connections would be gone. Email could arrive pretty much like text messages to our Bluetooth-enabled PDA (although you’d have to poll the mail server). The Vodafone page still quotes: [...]

(Editorial comment: even though Web Services lets a bunch of different applications speak the same protocol, it doesn’t mean they understand the same stuff. PeopleSoft’s concept of what an Employee means is going to be different from what SAP thinks it means. Web Services can get the two applications in the same room as each [...]