Jamie’s Weblog

Today, I was googling away for Jabber and J2ME stuff when I came across a post by Bill de h?ra in response to my post last month, JXTA or Jabber?. I’d missed this completely. And the follow-up post. So now I google again for JXTA Jabber and find some more pieces which weren’t there last [...]

The first thing that went through my head last week whilst watching the blackouts in N. America was “I can’t wait to see the satellite photos of this, it’s not often that you’d see a photo where New York is completely in the dark“. Well, here it is! Also see the before and after side-by-side [...]

For everyone who thinks about,talks about or develops wireless things, there’s a great spectrum poster available from the New America Foundation (thanks, Boing Boing). It’s well presented and graphically shows tons of information in addition to further information of the reverse and in a seperate booklet (all downloadable as PDF). I think Edward Tufte would [...]

Well, I guess everyone knows by now about North America’s power problems. Rather than commenting further and generally repeating things someone else has already said, I’m going to pass on something useful. Last October I attended the Emergent Engineering workshop at the MIT Centre for Bits and Atoms – a collection of talks ranging from [...]

One of the guys from MLE was at this and wrote up a nice report

I think that was the title of an article in the Sunday Times. It goes on about products, processes, oils, moisturisers and the Gillette Mach 3 Turbo razor (Hilary isn’t happy with Gillette but then we’re both Wilkinson Sword guys and gals). What it failed to realise is the true criteria for a perfect shave: [...]

Apparently, I might haveto fill out another form when I fly to New York next month on our way to Australia. But Hilary won’t. That’s right, apparently women can’t be terrorists. Hello people! didn’t you see 24? Sweet little Marie Warner, the Islamic terrorist. And the Black Widows in Russia? On a similar note, Ian [...]

masses, mobs and riots this weekend. The Robbie Williams concert was apparently good natured although I heard the booze queues were in the order of 20 mins. A flash mob of 100 people desended on the Clarkes shoe shop on O’Connell Street and shouted “I like cheese!”. Hilary was especially miffed to miss this event [...]

Alison points to this cartoon – maybe I too have Bloggers Block? Or maybe the world isn’t interesting at the moment, that’s hardly my fault. Or maybe it is really interesting and I’m just to lazy to discuss it? mmm… probably all three.

Now everyone may have their own opinions about the Segway and it’s creator but surely this man should no longer be allowed to work on transportation projects?