Jamie’s Weblog

I’ve had a paper accepted at DMC 2006 (a IEEE WETICE workshop). Look, I’m listed right there in the programme. Doesn’t my title sound cool? And frankly I’m disappointed. Am I allowed to say that I wrote this paper in a real hurry and still haven’t read through the version I submitted? Am I allowed [...]

On Sunday both the Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth 2 were in port, which promised to be an oppurtunity for some nice photos — of course Saturday was beautiful and Sunday was the meterological equivalent of my curent mood: dull, depressed, with limited visibility and no clarity. I’ve added the pics to my collection [...]

If only this chair was made out of books, it would be the solution to our lack of furniture and over-abundance of books. I imagine others would be interested too.

It seems like everything I might like to buy hovers around the £70 mark: Photoshop Elements 4 is about £60, a Wacom Graphire 4 tablet is £70, a used telezoom lens is about £70, a 1GB memory module for my laptop is £70-80 and a 250GB external drive is also £70-80. Unfortunately, £70 isn’t my [...]

When I heard on the radio this morning that “dissemination of terrorist publications” was now illegal, I immediately wondered if “Terrorism Monthly” was actually a publication. “What Suicide Bomb?”, “Black Market Weapons Buyer”, “Practical Terrorism”, “Terrorist Pro”, and so on…? Ah, even if they were, they’d never make it onto the bland shelves of WH [...]

I discovered this article on procrastination yesterday which has far too many sentences to which I nod my head and think, “yep, that’s me”. Of course, as Hilary pointed out, the very act of finding and reading the article was procrastination — and so is writing this blog. I’m trapped in a weird self-perpetuating, recursive [...]

I’ve posted a little story from the weekend about how, for 12 hours, I had a completely busted camera. Luckily, it all has a happy ending…

I bought 24 Series 3 at the weekend. Since I don’t own a TV, I figured a whole series of 24 would keep me occupied whilst Hilary is travelling around the continent. It’s a little bit surreal since I have the 24 ringtone on my phone and jump every time a CTU phone ring (which [...]

A short story about how I nearly killed my new camera.