Jamie’s Weblog

Yesterday I wrote my 500th post on this blog. mmm… now that’s a lot of wasted time!

Processing is a new language designed for interactive digital art projects. It compiles down to Java bytecode and the sample animations look very impressive

Facts and statistics: Job center staff are threatening to strike again. Their salaries start at £10,300 and, according to their union representative on Radio 4 this morning, 90,000 job centre staff are paid less than £15,000 a year UK household debt is expected to hit £1 trillion today [it's worth noting that I'm not sure [...]

In February, at the start of my PhD, I had a problem: I needed a way to record, organise and retrieve my research notes. I tried a few applications but none of them did exactly what I wanted. Now, 5 months later I have notes in various text files, notebooks and draft papers. I have [...]

Said woman take it slow It’ll work itself out fine All we need is just a little patience “Patience”, Guns ‘n’ Roses

The U.K., and particularly the press over here, seem overly occupied with issues of race and class. You can’t pick up a newspaper without reading about some sort of problem. I wonder though, are race and class really that important here? Are the media reflecting or inflating the problem in the real world? It’s certainly [...]

Myself and Hilary went to see Spiderman 2 on Friday. Everyone has been saying that it’s better than the first; even the attendant at the cinema said it was more “character-driven”. That’s all true but the film portrays the conflicted spidey through a layer of syrupy, shallow emotions and possibly just plain bad acting (I [...]

Hilary has pointed out that I’ve changed the theme for this blog. Actually, it was unintentional – I was just playing around with some of the new Blogger templates – but I’ll leave it here for now. I’m currently working on a new template.

Well, if not my life exactly, possibly my sanity. On Tuesday, I tried to install JAlbum on my work PC but the installer (written in Java) just kept crapping out. I thought nothing of it until yesterday when I tried to run netbeans and it too died. In fact, I tried running any Java application [...]

This little animated blog entry almost had me rolling on the floor laughing. You probably won’t get it though unless you’ve done some GUI coding in Java.