tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37790552024-03-07T08:45:53.432+01:00James MorrisonPersonal BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1084885456039493532004-05-18T14:04:00.000+01:002004-05-18T14:04:16.040+01:00test Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1084295086287471282004-05-11T18:04:00.000+01:002004-05-11T18:04:46.286+01:00Scottish IT Medical Companies. I'm excited by the number of IT Companies in Scotland with Medical Products, Mysterian, Voxar, The Solution Works, VisionWareUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1084211539599541252004-05-10T18:52:00.000+01:002004-05-10T18:52:19.600+01:00Apologies to Insect Life great Live Track played on CBC Radio 3 here Playing after Surfer Rosa, Lyrics seem to take a lot from Francis BlackUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1084210968266664052004-05-10T18:42:00.000+01:002004-05-10T18:42:48.266+01:00Listening to the Enlightenment Lectures, Adam Ferguson given by Prof. Ralf Dahrendorf he gave a Reith Lecture in the 70's, Come on BBC release your archive to the public. These lectures remind me of the Royal Society Lecture I used to watch after Christmas, They were great programs which treated Kids as adults allowing them to participate in Science Experiements. They used to be on BBC2 but movedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083940219614180612004-05-07T15:30:00.000+01:002004-05-07T15:34:40.280+01:00Russell Tribunal is good to remember that the Injustices that are being published in this warUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083932106396997402004-05-07T13:15:00.000+01:002004-05-07T13:19:27.153+01:00Bertrand Russell Nobel Laureate you can listen to part of his speech online. This Moment on Radio 4 looks at the "Committee of 100". This is start of Activism or "Civil Disobedience" in the form we have today. Reading the Activism Chapter from Understanding Power, fascinating read. Chomsky comments on how Decentralised Movements are much harder to destroy. Reading No Logo and the way they used Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083866736637246252004-05-06T19:05:00.000+01:002004-06-20T16:41:40.003+01:00Watched some of the BookTV interview with Niall Ferguson, Very interesting also checked out C-SPAN Video Library Great Stuff. Plan to buy The House of RothschildUpdate: Bought, Its the original whole book, from Oxfam on Byres Road, best Charity and Second Hand Book shop I've seenSearching for Rothschild, I found the Enlightenment Lectures intersting Stuff, The Adam Smith Lecture has the highest Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083847553160574872004-05-06T13:45:00.000+01:002004-05-06T13:50:12.186+01:00The State of JAXBUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083690142783946102004-05-04T18:02:00.000+01:002004-05-04T18:06:07.640+01:00Hearing a lot of good stuff from ITConversations, Listening to Philip Greenspun. Its interesting to hear him talk about the Economics of courses at Universities. Looking forward to reading Software Engineering for Internet ApplicationsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083588036892098002004-05-03T13:40:00.000+01:002004-05-03T13:44:44.640+01:00Watched Obair La again last night, another high quality programme. Looking at Ian Campbell of South Uist and his life on the Island. It presents it in a balanced way, talking of being a fisherman and the young people leaving the Western Isles. Kudos to Parcas Media, you need to get some Web presence. They should consider doing a programme about Mysterian?De an Gaidhlig airson "Weblog"?aistridh - Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083515489668979122004-05-02T17:31:00.000+01:002004-05-02T17:36:15.670+01:00Started using Skype on Friday, spoke with Neil and the office up in Stornoway who were both on ISDN. Very good quality superior to the VOIP in Groove I tried the other week, I had imagined that it would require broadband for such good voice quality. Definitely going to be testing it out further the next few weeks.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083342657387941092004-04-30T17:30:00.000+01:002004-04-30T17:35:08.936+01:00Had a problem with variable names for bean properties. was using yAxisLabel as the variable name. and when I was doing calls to it from the jsp it wasn't finding the property. Changing it to yaxisLabel the bean calls worked? is their a problem with using one letter in front of bean properties?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083253506817590162004-04-29T16:45:00.000+01:002004-05-02T17:08:17.263+01:00Russ was talking about XHTML-MP, Wireless DevCenter at Oreilly has a 2 part article - Creating Web Content for Mobile Phone BrowsersUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083154133603168112004-04-28T13:08:00.000+01:002004-05-02T17:11:44.450+01:00Lalzo Systems, which I first heard about at the RIA MMUG last week, The CTO David Temkin has a good blog. Lalzo in ten minutes is a great online tutorial. They have a lot of content aimed at the developer community, and I like their blog widgets, a great way to spread the meme. On Lazlo in 10 mins, under the section Data > Working With A Database ( Any way to link to a specific part of a Flash Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083147490485415282004-04-28T11:18:00.000+01:002004-05-04T10:42:29.640+01:00UK Libraries are getting half as many people borrowing as before detailed in a BBC News Item, What can libraries do to recapture their waning custom?The most popular area of the Library in Stornoway seems to me to be the Public Computers, allowing access to the Internet. You are able to access census data stored locally on these PCs. Libraries are able to offer Cinema content from the BFI.If Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083074087099197672004-04-27T14:54:00.000+01:002004-05-02T17:25:25.936+01:00Taking a look at some of the nominees for the Webby Awards, I was suprised to see a Radio Station in the BroadBand Category clicked on CBC Radio 3 and discovered the closest thing I have found to a Multimedia Magazine, the integrated player is great and the layout and quality of images is like a paper magazine. Superb gets my vote.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1083002927036338342004-04-26T19:08:00.000+01:002004-04-26T19:12:53.686+01:00Read interesting Bio of Esther Dyson from Wired. Its 10 years old, fantastic that its archived and accessible, makes economic sense because you can still make advertising revenue money from your old content. I didn't realise she is the daughter of Freeman Dyson and Verena Huber-Dyson , brother of George Dyson.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1082971593443379052004-04-26T10:26:00.000+01:002004-04-26T10:30:39.466+01:00What does this mean for Edinburgh Sushi Economics and Yo Sushi Struggling ?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1082971369230447222004-04-26T10:22:00.000+01:002004-04-26T10:26:55.186+01:00Watched Obair La Episode last night. It was great. The landscape shots were fantastic, nice editing. A positive and uplifting look at the Stornoway Trust told by Ian Maciver. Felt a real sense of Cianalas.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1082563232755921502004-04-21T17:00:00.000+01:002004-04-21T17:04:33.000+01:00Tried out VOIP in Groove today, had a few problems with my mic connection, but apart form that it ran smoothly. Runar Jordahl has set up a Groove Space for testing out VOIP. Spoke with Tom Swift from Dallas Texas, there was a slight delay and the voice quality I received was a bit crackly, but I don't know if its down to Groove. It felt a little weird because when your in the space you just Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1082542490187533672004-04-21T11:14:00.000+01:002004-04-21T11:18:49.750+01:00In the Malt Shovel last night listening to Swing 2004, when I noticed a somebody filming the band on their digital camera, Interested in the camera I started speaking with him and it turns out he is starting a site called Edinburgh Music Map. At the moment the site is still being populated with material, I think its a great idea and could really take off with the right community behind it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1082047632434665112004-04-15T17:47:00.000+01:002004-04-15T17:51:06.013+01:00Went to see Shaun of the Dead last night at the Odeon Lothian Road. Lives up to its Tagline. We did the Orange Wednesday deal. I noticed the number I recieved by text was entered into a special Orange Box for authentication. I was thinking about the data that could you retrieve from this, Orange Wednesdays is in almost all of the Cinemas in Edinburgh. Orange can link all the ids with my Orange Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1081949692275928822004-04-14T14:34:00.000+01:002004-04-14T14:38:42.543+01:00The 10 hours of recording available with the 20GB Hard Disk in the twin isn't enough. Looking at getting a Maxtor DiamondMax it's supposed to be quiet which will be another advantage over the disk currently in the Pace as it already audible when watching recorded programs while it is recording.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1081935859384873722004-04-14T10:44:00.000+01:002004-04-14T11:11:23.200+01:00Reading about HDTVin the US from the pvrblog. Googled for information regarding the UK and found this. It explains that to give the extra bandwidth that HDtv channel would require there would not be enough space for the number of existing channels and that the likelihood will be that it will be broadcast over Satellite. Looks like Sky will be cashing in on HDtv first then. There is a European Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3779055.post-1081875303653758652004-04-13T17:55:00.000+01:002004-04-21T16:23:22.576+01:00Interesting app that allows you to turn jpegs and other formats into svgs http://delineate.sourceforge.net/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0