Jamie’s Weblog

the scariest / saddest / weirdest thing you will read this week Boy “pregnant” with twin brother.

smoething ok, it’s just a typo but it seems to mean something update: other people can’t spell either!

ericsson is looking blue Ericsson are set to lose 14,000 employees over the next two years after yet another bad year. Nothing, it seems can turn this company around. I think that maybe they have a little bit of an identity crisis: are they into consumer or operator hardware, or is it network management. Recently, [...]

smart conference badges nTag is an MIT Media Lab spin-off company who are commercialising Rick Borovoy’s research on Thinking Tags and Meme Badges. Oddly, their FAQ page is a) a pdf file and b) actually contains the answers to your frequently asked questions! This is pretty similar to an application I was thinking of for [...]

10 most hyped technologies I don’t think I can agree entirely with this selection. It’s not that I don’t agree that these things have been overhyped, it’s that there are another 10-20 seriously overhyped technologies which would warrant inclusion (web services, xml in general, semantic web – and these are the technologies I like!). No [...]

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spam spam spam Between the 8-28th April I’ve received 946 spam emails, mostly from one old but well used account. I’ve just installed POPFile and I’m going to wait for the onslaught tomorrow to train up the filters. It looks good and seems to work well – certainly I imagine it will classify the 90%/10% [...]

happy (blog) birthday to me! This blog was 2 years old on Saturday! I had another blog for about a year before that (actually I started blogging in June 2000).

slim clean java? O’Reilly has a great thought-provoking article about the fictional Java 3.0 written by Elliotte Rusty Harold. What legacy baggage would you drop from Java? Having worked with J2ME it think it’s amazing what you can do with a small API although the use of Vector and Hashtable as the main data structures [...]

treacherous computing Richard Stallman has another rant, this time on Microsoft’s Palladium (a.k.a. TCPA). [via the ever useful Cafe au Lait] He is quite to do so and he brings up an interesting point: mostly security technologies are marketed as being on the side of the good yet they can easily be abused by the [...]