Jamie’s Weblog

This Via C7 looks like an interesting processor for an ultraportable laptop. Unfortunately, I don’t imagine these laptops will be cheap enough to let me afford a two new laptops (one big, powerful, widescreen one for developing and another super-lightweight for travelling etc).

Myself and Hilary are going back home to Ireland for two weeks. There’ll be no blogging or reading of emails during this time.

The Harbour Lights cinema near us right next door to our flat in Southampton, is to receive a grant to install digital projectors. Currently myself and Hilary spend a few evenings a week over in the UGC cinema availing of the £9.99 all-you-can-stand-to-watch subscription. We pop into the Harbour Lights for a drink [...]

This occurred to me today: File sharing is largely considered to be illegal because the files that are being shared are not created by those sharing them. In the old world there was a disparity between those who created and those that consumed. Today we can glimpse a possible interpretation of the [...]

Yesterday, I noticed that if you hold down Ctrl and move the mouse over a method it changes into a hyperlink to the original declaration. Much easier than Alt-O!

I wonder if there’s a possible application of my phhhhd work in the area of wildlife monitoring. Specifically, I’m thinking of animals that we currently track with logging devices, such as the Albatross and Dolphins. Now, I assume that there are a number of challenges here. Some are hardware related, such as [...]

Yeah, we went to see it on Saturday. It looked like Star Wars, smelt like Star Wars and sounded like Star Wars, but it just didn’t feel like Star Wars. A clone, perhaps? It was a little like those appalling spin-off books of reasonable TV series (I’m thinking Star Trek here, although [...]

The Semantic Web is SQL for the 21st Century.
Supporters of SW technologies might think that I’m belittling their creation. I’m not. I’m belittling their hype. Where SQL is used now, SW technologies have a good chance of succeeding. Indeed, it is not hard to predict that SW technologies will be used [...]

It sounds like Limerick is great fun at the moment. Shooting a barman for not serving your underage sister: What a hoot. Throwing a grenade through someone’s window: Good Saturday night fun.
Still, if owning a fancy merc is testament to your lack of… ahem… manhood, then perhaps owning a handgun is indicative of [...]

It has nothing to do with my research but yesterday I came across Elance. This is a marketplace for small contract jobs. I’d heard of these things before but this was the first time I’d come across one that actually appeared to be a viable market. A few years ago, there was [...]