Jamie’s Weblog

Google Desktop! Google Desktop! Google finally does desktop search! Google Desktop! … is completely f*cking useless. Google’s desktop search engine currently indexes: Outlook/Outlook Express, AOL Instant Messenger, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, PowerPoint and Text files. So from that list, the only things of use to me might be indexing the text files – I don’t [...]

I’ve recently moved desk but I used to sit next to some of the researchers responsible for beating the Tit-for-Tat strategy in the Prisoner’s Dilemma.

Urban planners and architects who insist on forcing the pedestrian to deviate from the shortest-path, around a right-angle, lack an understanding of a fundamental human trait (i.e., laziness). I happily walk all over their designs.

Since the Ansari X-prize was won this week by Burt Rutan’s team there is a movement to create the next prize for a major human achievement. Whereas the Ansari prize had a strict, obvious and testable success criteria, some of the current suggestions include technological goals, which are far too vague: Technological “holy grails”, such [...]

This morning was a perfect, crisp winter’s morning. The kind with a blue sky and watery sunlight, where the air freezes your teeth and numbs your nostrils. It was quite refreshing but there was the looming thought that winter also has its fair share of dark, cold, wet and windy days.

Libby had a nightmare. I live that nightmare. Of course, I’ve no idea what I want to do with a PhD once I’ve got one but finishing it seems like a really good idea (and, err… I’ve only done 9months, another 2.25 years left

Ev, the co-founder of Pyra/Blogger, has decided to leave Google/Blogger and persue… something.

I hope never to see this again: Want to know if you are one of my friends? Check my FOAF file Since when do we mediate our social relationships through RDF? That type of activity in utter bollo*ks but, unfortunately, it is the future the geeks are bringing us.