Jamie’s Weblog

mgb is attracting the wrong sort of people (well, seemingly uncharming and illiterate) but maybe that’s what you get for talking about beer.

I have only one thing to sayabout this [via James Gosling] and I’m not going to censor it. Fuckers. The full first-hand story is here.

Solve these problems:When was the last time you were at a meeting and were trying to reschedule the next one? Each person calls out suggestions based on their own calendar and everyone else checks that date, someone inevitably rejects it and the cycles starts over. Soon your come to the conclusion that there is no [...]

JXTA or JabberFor mobile messaging-style applications which would you choose, Jabber or JXTA for J2ME (JXME)? Jabber has lots of interesting features for instant messaging like “presence” (which JXTA is only just getting around to) and even “mood indicators“. But overall, JXTA has a nicer architecture which would seem more appropriate to building applications on [...]

The MailinatorI’ve seen this mentioned in a few places, but first by Joel. The idea is that you can create a transient insecure email address for those pesky web forms that require a valid email address – thus avoiding spam on your real email account. There’s no setup, no passwords, no security and no hassle. [...]

Attention FreeRoller users and the people who link to them I’ve just got my daily dose of Erik and of the five links that caught my interest 3 were hosted at FreeRoller. Of course since the FreeRoller site has the worst uptime of any blog host I’ve yet found I couldn’t read the following posts: [...]

ZildjianAlison has a cool picture of a Zildjian cymbal. Dunno why you’d be interested but I like it.

research The latest issue of ERCIM seems to have been picked up by everyone. It’s odd because this publication has been around for years and I only discovered it 6 months ago. Now everyone’s pointing to it. I quite like the concept of this journal: its structured as a series of short 1-2page abstracts around [...]

cynicalDid anyone else see the front page of the Motoring section of the Irish Times yesterday? On one side we have an article calling for the reintroduction of the car scrappage scheme which saw cars over 10 years old traded in for new cars and a ?1000 tax rebate. The article made this out to [...]

Ignorant PalmRuss points to an interview with PalmSource’s CEO where he basically complains that the specification of a PDA Profile for Java (within the community-based JCP) did not turn out as they wanted it to, so they’ve kinda gone cold on the whole Java thing. Interesting business decision when I can be pretty sure that [...]