Jamie’s Weblog

Why do our tastes in food change over time? Everyone knows how hard it is to make children eat vegetables (especially green ones) and yet most adults eat a much wider range of food. Yet I don’t like mushrooms or coffee (and never have). Why? Is it psychological, physiological or just societal pressures? Does anyone [...]

I have my P45, I’m burning CDs of contacts and mailboxes. I’m leaving. Gone. I’d like to say that the last 2 years have been the most rewarding, stimulating, exciting and worthwhile period of my life. But I can’t. In fact, the last 2 years have been the most depressing, lonely and unproductive years of [...]

launches it’s first Symbian phone and then sells it’s stake in Symbian. Russ is confused and so am I. I know that unlike Nokia, Motorola have always been a little confused about things. Are they using Dragonballs or ARMs? Which OS? and so on. I guess that’s why Motorola is #2 and Nokia is #1. [...]

so after complaining that I’d been left out of the recent SoBig.F virus crisis I managed to catch the MSBlast virus. What surprised me is that I caught it on my laptop – an unprotected, unconnected w2k machine. In the time it took me to check my email and read some rss feeds via BlogLines [...]

Diego picked up on my piece re. JXTA and Jabber. He makes a distinction between discovering something and locating it. Fair enough although I’d never actually looked at it this way. To be honest I had always thought of discovering an entity as discovering something about that entity. Knowing that something is there isn’t really [...]

So I guess I’d better quit alluding to it and declare my intentions to the world: I’ve accepted a PhD at Southampton University which I’ll start in January. It was a really tough decision to make. On the one hand, I have the things that I’m beginning to want from life: money, a house (or [...]

because I haven’t received a single sobig.F virus email. Diego (and just about everyone else) seems demented with it so I’m happy enough to miss this party.

Subversion is a replacement for the (in my opinion) terrible CVS. I use Subversion (a.k.a svn) to version copies of ideasasylum, my other smaller websites and all the code I work on. I can’t really comment on its scalability and enterprise-worthiness but it works well for me. It is particularly good when working on rapidly [...]

How often can you say that? Well, at least it’s relevant to me.

this blog now has an RSS feed for all you aggregator bandits out there. Please be sensible – I rarely post more than once or twice a day so setting your aggregator to 12-24hrs is plenty frequent enough.