Jamie’s Weblog

Great article on why blogs are so important, particularly when the government spin and propaganda machines are set to high

yeah, the story is real
I read this article in the Sunday Times myself. I’m assuming it is an accurate account of the events.
One thing you should do is read the whole article. The first part actually describes the results of a terrifying battle with Iraqi forces but you need to understand the circumstances [...]

you may notice some 404’s
as I’ve just moved from weekly to monthly archiving for this blog. I could just leave the old archives but that seems a waste of space and I’m not really a legacy kind of guy. I’m going to update all the links on this site (over the next week) [...]

just testing
the mail-to-blog feature which is apparently working now
update: although it’s not exactly speedy

tableless ideasasylum?
Currently, I have this site laid out using tables - there’s good browser support for it and it hasn’t changed since I first learnt about tables in 1995/6. But there seems to be a big movement away from tables towards using CSS styles for laying out content. The reasons are unclear but [...]

updates on 802.15.3 for ad-hoc networking
I received this email from John Barr, chairman of the 802.15.3 working group.
Jamie,
15.3 does use a piconet coordinator (PNC), but any device can be PNC capable, and two devices that come into range will decide who takes on the PNC role in order to allocate bandwidth for communications. The scenario [...]

IBM continues autonomic pursuit
The latest IBM Systems Journal has an issue devoted to autonomic computing, that is systems which adapt, configure, heal and optimise themselves.

Too much bandwidth?
Then it’s time to fill it up with some great Quicktime movies (all via BoingBoing): Real dog defends meat against Aibo and many many explosive chemistry experiments.

SourceForge now supports RSS
I wonder if this announcement will spur the sort of innovative applications that RSS in weblogs has done. Of course, you could use aggregators (as per weblogs) to keep up-to-date with your favourite sourceforge projects but maybe there’s more we could do? Collection of statistics, comparisons between projects, links and [...]

Here’s a very interesting blog
by an Iraqi, apparently in Iraq (via Dave). I just can’t help wondering who this person is and whether they are really who they pretend to be. I guess I’m just too cynical after various fake weblogs and online stories/pleas/etc over the years. Update: Others have doubts too.