http://www.james-scott.co.uk James R. Scott\\\'s site on corporate finance/investment banking, finance interviews, and interesting non-work projects (lock picking, friction firelighting) Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:24:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm sure this is probably the most written about topic on the internet in the last few hours, but I just wanted to add my thoughts on Google's new web browser, Google Chrome, into the fray. Google is really going head-to-head with Microsoft with this one, competing directly with one of ... http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2008/09/03/google-chrome/ Have finally put up the Moscow photos from the summer - enjoy! http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2008/07/28/russia-trip-2008/ A few videos from Johny's stag party, for your viewing pleasure When it finishes click more to see more, and let it run - it should go through at least 3 slightly different angles of Johny's Macarena dance, as well as George's 'Welcome to the stag do' video http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2008/07/24/johnys-stag-do/ I have finally added my cooperative games database, which lists offline (local as opposed to online) cooperative games where players can play together while sitting in the same livingroom. This follows a couple of months of gathering info and building the database and I hope you like it! http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2008/06/12/cooperative-games-database/ ---Caveat: the views below represent my own current personal views and are subject to change--- It's wonderful what a bit of competition can do... For a very long time, the music industry has been dominated by a few labels. Prices hadn't shifted substantially in favour of consumers for decades. Then along came ... http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2008/01/07/the-end-of-digital-rights-management-drm-for-music/ I'm not normally a big fan of on air TV (i.e. I usually just get a specific series I like on DVD), however while musing over ICQ's newfound popularity in Russia, I became captivated by this new show - Outnumbered (Tuesday night, 10:35pm, BBC1). It is a frighteningly realistic, low-key comdedy about ... http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2007/09/05/outnumbered-little-terrors-uk-tv/ Darn it - unless you can describe them as 'sporting equipment', it looks like lockpicks are illegal in Canada. Guns are of course legal (with the appropriate licence) for sporting purposes, but I guess people just don't see lockpicking as a sport yet... I was very much looking forward to sitting on an island with my newly acquired lockpicks and the various locks I have bought, and spending hours attempting to open them. Not sure why it's so appealing, but it is. Oh well, I've got ... http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2007/08/03/lock-picks/ Fantastic - off to Canada tomorrow. One week will be in/around Toronto/Peterborough (I'm actually not sure exactly where - it's my grandparents' cottage that we used to visit by the lake, but I'm not sure where it actually is given how young I was when we last visited), where we will mostly be staying on ... http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2007/08/02/holidays/ An old friend has put together a pretty amusing series of comics. I am not sure how broad the audience is for these, but they're pretty good if you're a geek! http://www.f8d.org/ - highly recommended. God knows where he finds the time to do these - one every day apparently! http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2007/07/05/geeky-web-comic/ Having trouble with sending emails (registration emails, password resets on forgotten passwords etc) from your wordpress blog? This is a tough one - the first solution I saw was to use WP-PHPMailer from Coffee 2 Code. However this left me with a "Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to smtp.mail.yahoo.com:25 in /home/www/james-scott.co.uk/.../plugins/wp-phpmailer/class.smtp.php on ... http://www.james-scott.co.uk/2007/06/24/signup-issues/