Jamie's Blog

  I spent all day last Saturday at Homecamp at the Electrical Engineering building at Imperial College London. Homecamp is effectively a hack-day about Home monitoring, home automation reducing energy and energy resource requirements in your home. Previous to hearing of the day, I had become interested in these subjects because I had seen Andy [...]

Delphi programming is currently being rejuvenated on so many different levels. I was pleased to see that in the November 2008 TIOBE Index of Programming Languages Delphi shot up to 8th place (only .020% behind c#). I believe that this is partially on the excellent efforts of my good friend Jim McKeeth whose community herding has helped [...]

As part of my efforts to try to help Jim Mckeeth’s push to get Delphi Programming the recognition that it deserves I recently dug out a copy of my orginal Borland Branded “Delphi Man” Super Hero. If you haven’t already got him then I would encourage you to print and cut out a copy for [...]

Many programmers keep a loose eye on the TIOBE Language Index table which gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages based on the results returned using the Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube search engines. This index is not without its controversy and the index and ratings are calculated on debatable terms however it is what [...]

When customer service startup GetSatisfaction first launched I was initially skeptical. It seemed like a good way of leaving customer support requests to be solved in a peer-supported way allowing you to provide little or no official support. However, it soon began to pickup larger support products such as Twitter which still seems to be [...]

I realise everyone is sick of hearing about the iPod Touch / iPhone version 2 firmware updates however I felt that I would happily ignore that so I could share a few things with you. About 36 hours after reading about various iPhone users receiving their updates via links sent over twitter I noticed the [...]

iTunes movie rentals and purchases finally reach the UK market. Until now they had only been available to other countries such as the US. The prices are, at first glance, terrible. £2.49 to rent movies and £6.99 to buy the movie. One of the titles available is Team America: World Police This DVD can be [...]

Simply terrible. This is a sample of a CAPTCHA shown to users of German file-sharing service Rapidshare. In case you skipped over the first part (as I did at first) to enter the letters shown, you’d be wrong. You have to work out which letters are hiding a cat and which ones are hiding a [...]

I spend a great deal of my time on the internet browsing my friends photos, its one of the primary uses of social networking sites such as Facebook and Flickr. I do sometimes wonder if even this simple function is too painful when having to wade through paging or search function however this is a [...]

Recently Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook appeared in an interview on 60 Minutes the purpose of which seemed fairly unclear to me. The Interview did not seem to reveal very much however he did cover an IPO (or lack there of) and was very cagey about the recent Beacon fiasco. I would have liked the interviewer [...]