Jamie’s Weblog

Bill wrote about software processes and it reminded me of the way I’m currently discussing my PhD research. Essentially it breaks down into these tasks: reading experimenting implementing writing To me this succinctly captures the essence of research. First, you figure out what has been done before, then you play around with various options and [...]

Traces of Fire is a wonderful study which involved losing some specially adapted lighters in Limerick pubs and then tracking them in their new lives. I love this type of non-intrusive study which can possibly reveal something about our urban lives. They acts as ‘Barium Meals for the City’ as Volkmar Klien & Ed Lear [...]

If you’re stuck for things to do at the weekend (dear God… don’t take my advice) go and watch Troy. Plenty of action and entertainment to keep you occupied for 2.5 hours. Then you have a choice to make: either read The Iliad on your Palm for free or read ‘Troy in 15 minutes’. Both [...]

I’ve just remembered that I was going to post on this topic after reading another Wired article last weekend. The article in question is a review of Jane Jacobs‘ new book, Dark Age Ahead. The reviewer didn’t much like the book which is a shame as The Death and Life of Great American Cities is [...]

I wasn’t going to post again today (I’ve got a pile of papers and books to read and just maybe should try to do some work) but I couldn’t resist. I read a post by Brian Duff about XAML (Microsoft’s new user interface language) which follows the same logic as too many developers. The general [...]

Well, just her blog. She now has the shiny new Ms. Moto template from Jeffery Zeldman but she’s busy working to keep us of the gutter and isn’t blogging too much these days.

Cory has two posts which I can seriously identify with. First, that daft notice at the start of films about copyright and not using video camera etc. I hate that screen too. I take it as a personal insult and it pisses me off. The second post is on the status of household bils as [...]

Last month when I wrote about the problems of over-eager RSS aggregations, I mentioned that RSS is not a push technology. This myth is continuing to be reported as I recently read in a Wired column entitled “The Return of Push” (not yet online). Let me repeat: RSS is not a push technology. RSS is [...]

Earlier this week we were presented with a method to reveal what was written under those blacked out sections in sensitive documents. It was a nice use of a fairly simple technique – you might almost say, obvious. Well, today there’s another obvious security risk: the sound your keyboard makes. The researcher in question has [...]

Myself and Hilary went to see this last night. I really liked it but I’m not entirely sure why. I can’t remember what about it I enjoyed so much but apparently I sat there with a smile on my face for the whole film and I came out happy. Perhaps, it was the kookie Clementine [...]