Jamie’s Weblog

Now, I concede to being a small bit envious at the publicity Nathan is receiving over the Reality Mining project, but I also understand (from having been on the inside) that this is as much to do with the Media Lab marketing machine than anything else (plus, the whole idea is pretty cool). I’ve intentionally [...]

Nathan Eagle has been getting a fair bit of attention recently with his Serendipity application, which is part of the Reality Mining project at MIT Media Lab. His work is so similar to my own that each paper or article I read is like someone has transcribed my own thoughts. And, then, of course, the [...]

No, not those cute foreign post-grads… the Staff Club Mallards! Mother Ducky was proudly showing off her 14 chicks in the courtyard pond today. Sadly, most of her offspring will probably have a half-life of less than a week. There’s already a division between the 6-7 chicks that energetically run and swim after Mother, and [...]

From the “ah-yes, I remember the good-bad old days of crossing roads in Dublin” dept: Tourist Jaywalking.

even the penguin’s aren’t above suspicion: These two penguins are being herded through the metal-detector at Denver airport [via Bruce Schneier]. Of course, most birds are capable of swallowing food and then regurgitating it to their young chicks. Perhaps security officers thought that these penguins had been trained to swallow knives and then regurgitate them [...]

(and no, this post isn’t about Eclipse, NetBeans, etc) A few days ago Romain Guy showed a demo of an advanced source code editor which allows you to embed images into code comments. This is a useful method of documenting the code structure or algorithm, right in the code itself. I had a similar idea [...]

In my previous post I mentioned IDE fanatics, and I’ve often mentioned my brief flirtation with OS fanaticism when I was younger and more naive. So here’s my working definition of a fanatic (it applys to IDE fanatics, open source fanatics, operating system fanatics, WMD-fanatics, and so on): A fanatic is someone who was, is, [...]

So, according to the Register, Borland have decided to open source the core JBuilder IDE. Is this really such a big deal? Isn’t that like closing the door once all the horses have bolted and the only beast left is a smelly, lame donkey with fleas? There was a point in time when JBuilder was [...]

Not long after the U.S. launch (kudos!), Google Maps and Google Local have arrived in the UK. Unfortunately, there’s still no implementation for Ireland. The UK navigation/mapping market seems to thrive (despite the efforts of the Ordnance Survey) on the backs of commercial market opportunities but Ireland is just too small a market to justify [...]

Cygwin is great: It provides a whole bunch of useful UNIX utilities on Windows. I’ve been using it to send my current work directory to a compact flash card. Here’s the simple script:#! /bin/shcd c:/devecho “Creating Sim Archive”tar czf sim.tgz sim/echo “Moving Sim Archive”mv sim.tgz e:echo “Finished”Now, I was getting sick of opening the cygwin [...]