Jamie’s Weblog

These photos are like something out of a rather rather violent computer game… but no, it’s Nigeria. Very scary indeed. [via Boing Boing]

is available as a free download under a Creative Commons licence — but damn that front cover is hard on the eye!

As I said yesterday, reinventing the wheel is useful. But John still doesn’t get it. The comments he has received pretty much echo my post yesterday. One last point: “Where in the Open Source Law Code does it say “Though shall read all the code on freshmeat.net before reinventing the wheel” Since you asked, I’ll [...]

maybe James Gosling just wanted a little fun and some experimentation when he create the Juicy News Network browser. There is no rule that you must reuse existing open source software and not reinvent the wheel. Sometimes you need to redo something as a learning experience or sometimes from the sheer pleasure of creating something [...]

That’s the question being considering by Gregg. I left a comment on that post so all I’ll say here is: my solution is Sleepcat’s BerkeleyDBXML which allows me to store small XML fragments and access them using XPath. So far, so good.

Here’s a round-up of all the things I’ve written down on my 2″ lime green post-it note and thought I should blog about. It’s kinda long (sorry!) but I think it contains some gems: nano-itx Mini-itx announced the nano-itx a rather desirable small form-factor PC, only 12cm square and a great looking case (designed by [...]

As soon as I heard about the method used by the Madrid bombers I knew that we would start seeing articles like this, discussing how mobile phones can be used as detonators. This is nothing new, the IRA used radio controller to detonate bombs for years – the mobile phone just adds that extra bit [...]

The new Nokia 7610 looks like a wonderful phone and with decent specs too, but I am the only one what can’t find number 3 on the keypad? update: it appears that there is a number 3 on the keypad as you can see from the photo on the right!

Karlin and Google have all got in the mood.

I’ve just started writing a Java application using Swing for the first time in about 3 years. It’s fun to get back into it. Currently there is much criticism of Swing with half the people shouting “SWT!” and the others making animated gestures in reference to Flash. I thought of both and I’m not using [...]