Jamie’s Weblog

Finally, when someone starts on about their “human rights”, I can point them to a definition of such. Perhaps all those people who natter on about human rights should actually read this document. I only wish there was a similar document for terrorism/terrorist and the war on same.

To many this might sound like yet-another-star-wars-prequel. To you I say, “Take your head out of the bash shell and look outside, the ducks are back. Real feathery ducks and not a light-sabre in sight!”. Ahem. I should probably explain. The university has a number of ponds and streams running through the campus which are [...]

danah has an interesting summary about the differences between those who are ‘always-on’ IM and those who just ‘drop-in’ specifically for a chat. I’ve noticed this with IRC channels. I’ve occasionally dropped by #foaf and #drools to ask questions but I don’t have enough of an interest to sit on the channel permanently. Particularly with [...]

I have a small maths problem which I’d like to solve. You’re all smarter than I am so it shouldn’t take long. In return, uou can hold your superiour knowledge of the dark arts mathematics over me for the rest of my life. I will forever say “I’m a mathematical moron but <insert your name [...]

[these are my notes and might not make much sense to anyone else. they're also inaccurate and quite possibly wrong]updated to include 2 more thoughts Last week I was in Bath for the 3rd UK-UbiNet workshop. This proved to be an extremely useful event: plenty of interesting research, some useful contacts, some interesting ideas and [...]

So, apparently lots of people are concerned about those that represent “a burden on society”. They want to bring in “The Australian Model“. Well, I think that shipping thousands of our most useless members of society off to a far away land, with a slim chance of survival and no possibility that they’ll return is [...]

Hilary has been singing “Eye of the Tiger” for the past few days, which has started to get really annoying. The problem is that I’m convinced the lyrics are: Risin’ up the the challenge of our llamas I guess I’m not the only one who has misheard the lyrics, although I appear to be the [...]

This morning I had my 9month viva (finally! it’s now month 13) and it seems that I will continue as a research student, towards a PhD (well, once I clear the 18month hurdle). Wahoo! Now I can concentrate on finishing my pedestrian simulation (in the next few months) and getting into the meat of the [...]

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