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Local JMS for local people
Posted on 23 Jun 2004
It was only a matter of time, Somnifugi is a local implementation of JMS that sends messages between threads. It is a nice analogy for the useful Worker Pool of threads pattern, that will scale easily if you want to plug in a distributed JMS implementation later. Congrats to Dave
23 Jun 2004 |

Hitchhikers returns on 21 September
Posted on 22 Jun 2004
At last, after a long wait, The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy returns with a new series at 6:30pm on 21 September on Radio 4.

The announcement also includes this great sounding trailer (mp3)

More info from mj simpson, slashdot

22 Jun 2004 |

my daily reading material...
Posted on 16 Jun 2004
I've changed the style of my home spun blog aggregator box, which I use to keep track of all things, see what you think of it here.
16 Jun 2004 |

wiki's and the UML
Posted on 15 Jun 2004
Stephan pointed me in the direction of SnipGraph, which looks lovely. Essentially it takes wiki style plain text, and creates graphs with layout. It can run independently of snipsnap (i.e. on its own, in a build), to produce many pretty views of the structure/relationships you might want to model.

It's all produced by a very clever lady called Elka Ehret.

another pretty graph

Other similar tools here and here

15 Jun 2004 |

...so last week
Posted on 15 Jun 2004
GMail must no longer be fashionable or cool, as the fools let me have an account...

Thanks to Carlos for the invite.
15 Jun 2004 |

sketching in the UML - Visual Thought
Posted on 15 Jun 2004
Visual Thought - Observer PatternI was just looking around again for a tool somewhere between Visio and my Whiteboard, and I might have found it. Visual Thought used to cost alot, but is now available as freeware, it seems to be quite good at UML as sketches, and may well find a little niche in my toolbox.
15 Jun 2004 |

I want one of those...
Posted on 15 Jun 2004
I don't normally go for PC case modifications, but this conversion into Orac looks beautiful. [from slashdot]click for more piccies
15 Jun 2004 |

London Java Meetup - Tonight
Posted on 14 Jun 2004
It's the London Java Meetup this evening. Another night of drunken chat about all things Java related, should be fun...
14 Jun 2004 |

Pick-and-Drop
Posted on 10 Jun 2004
It's about time something as useful as pick-and-drop came along. I wonder why most of these PC flatscreens aren't touch sensitive.
10 Jun 2004 |

I wanna rock...
Posted on 10 Jun 2004
Metallica
Heavy metal! You rock! It's mostly about the
music instead of lyrics for you...but you
channel most of the emotion through the lyrics!
Mosh pit for you! Just be careful you don't
give yourself a concussion with so much
headbanging...

What genre of rock are you?
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10 Jun 2004 |

Fun with Techie's (London,this.Sunday)
Posted on 04 Jun 2004
An exciting looking tech conference is taking place on Sunday, at my old university in London. NotCon '04 looks set to be full of people taking technology further than originally intended.

Discussions will range from Peer to Peer, Copyright, Blogging, through to hardware and wireless hacks. Looks like fun, and cheap (4quid) too :-)

04 Jun 2004 |

Cool Underground and Subway guide
Posted on 03 Jun 2004
If you're stuck on planning your next trip around London, Paris, New York, Brussels or Madrid, be sure to pop by my friend's new site that provides route planning using funky graph traversal algorithms. Pop by, and leave comments here so Simon can improve the service futher.
03 Jun 2004 |

BBC Model B
Posted on 01 Jun 2004
Stumbled across an excellent website homage to my second home computer, the BBC Model B, a chap called Ollie has put together Only the Best BBC Micro games
My favourites include:
Starship Command, Sphinx Adventure, Citadel, Repton, Thrust, Killer Gorilla, Ghouls, Imogen, Castle Quest, Frak, Chuckie Egg, Cholo, Knightlore, Sabre Wulf, The Sentinel, Dare Devil Denis, Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror, and of course Elite. The only ones I think that Ollie missed are Alien8, Starquake, Mallory Manor and Stardrifter.
Try Ollie's excellent Quick Start Guide, and play these games now...
01 Jun 2004 |

 

 
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