Jamie’s Weblog

This comic seems to accurately depict my thought processes. I can lie awake thinking about a problem, get irritable because my thoughts are interrupted whilst eating dinner, and then I sit in front of a computer and I get… Nothing.

Michelle Dewberry who recently revealed that she was pregnant. She is now reported to be on gardening leave. Huh? There’s obviously a lot I don’t know about pregnancy — but I didn’t think gardening was a strong requirement!

I occasionally need to access my work PC from home/elsewhere but my green sensibilities thinks it’s daft to have the PC on full power 24 hours a day for such an occasional requirements. I usually have it go to Standby after 15mins and hibernate after 30. Today I found some working “Wake-on-LAN” software and, after [...]

h2. Introduction The Crumpler “Stunner” is small photo bag capable of holding a DLSR and one or two lenses. !/notebook/images/36.jpg!

I heard yesterday that Sony are going to release a small GPS unit that will allow you to tag your photos with a GPS position and view them in Google Maps. Well, my PhD wasn’t going anywhere and I needed a 24 hour distraction, so I wrote my own python script to take a GPS [...]

h1. PhotoPlanet.py README Jamie Lawrence, 4th August, 2006 *This is a small script to “locate” your photos in “Google Earth”:http://earth.google.com/. It takes a GPS tracklog and a collection of photos, and generated a KML or KMZ file that allows Google Earth to pin thumbnails of your photos at the location where they were taken* !http://jamie.ideasasylum.com/notebook/images/35.jpg!

If I’d proposed with a TV, I don’t think I’d be getting married in less than 5 weeks and I’d probably have that TV protruding from the side of my head. Diamonds might not be a girl’s best friend but technology isn’t a complete replacement either.

Yesterday was my birthday* but I got my present from Hilary on Sunday. It’s a “Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG Macro” lens and it’s brilliant. I’ve only played with it briefly on Sunday in the New Forest but I’m really really impressed already. I’m also really impressed with Hilary for buying it, even though it [...]

A mobile pet wearable computer and mixed reality system for human-poultry interaction through the internet Honestly, I haven’t even read the abstract yet but I’m intrigued!

It’s not often you’ll hear a utility company say that but it’s exactly what my hosting provider, Dreamhost, told its customers. Over the last few weeks there have been huge problems at Dreamhost including network, filer and power problems. None of them ever actually impacted me (the site was down but I wasn’t trying to [...]