Author Archives: James McParlane

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About James McParlane

CTO Massive Interactive. Ex Computer Whiz Kid - Now Grumpy Old Guru.

Mashup Engines And Web 2.0

Posted on July 17, 2007 by James McParlane

Mash-up engines (automated mash-up creation tools) are one of those concepts that people think is very cool. You do a survey and ask if people would use it and they say “God yes – every day for as long as I live” – … Continue reading →

Posted in Rants, Web2.0 | 3 Comments

John Howard On You Tube – Awaiting The Great Streaming Inevitable.

Posted on July 17, 2007 by James McParlane

Tonight the TV told me that John Howard is on YouTube. Interesting – I just came out of a panel discussion where one of the questions was how content authors and marketers should engage with their audience in the modern online world. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Web2.0 | 2 Comments

Workaround for SWF inside a FORM element

Posted on July 17, 2007 by James McParlane

Had an issue with a Flash SWF inside a <FORM> element when using ExternalInterface(). Essentially flash was unable to create the callbacks and threw errors. Thankfully there is a workaround available by Steve Kamerman  “Wow, seriously IE – you got beat by Opera … Continue reading →

Posted in Flash | 3 Comments

Great Global Warming Swindle ABC Studio Audience Was (Mostly) Off Their Rockers

Posted on July 13, 2007 by James McParlane

Glad I was not the only one that thought that most of these people were out of their minds or on a clear agenda of conspiracy theory chasing. Of note, the audience contained at least… One suspected creationist Two “environmentalism is eugenics” … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Rationalising A Post Amazon/Google Home Library

Posted on July 8, 2007 by James McParlane

I spent the last two weekends installing bookshelves so Sharyn and I just spent three hours going through books that have spent the last 6 years in boxes and in many cases have not been seen or used in 10 years. … Continue reading →

Posted in Me Myself and I, Meta-Narrative | 4 Comments

More Sliverlight Video Testing

Posted on July 3, 2007 by James McParlane

Using sample non square pixel tests from Microsoft site was inconclusive. 7 of the 27 sample encoded videos were 1:1 PAR. The others varied from 24:11 to 12:11 None of the videos played past the first frame, but all the videos was … Continue reading →

Posted in Silverlight | 2 Comments

Article On ZDNet About My Presentation At Remix07

Posted on July 2, 2007 by James McParlane

‘New media designer Massive’s chief technical officer, James McParlane, for example, discussed the MCE version of the company’s V8 Supercars channel, which combines actual telemetry information for particular cars with video from those cars — or uses the MCE box … Continue reading →

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My Son's Favorite LOLCat

Posted on July 1, 2007 by James McParlane

My Son Has A favorite LOLcat If you’ve not kept up with the LOLcat craze which has now gone mainstream (Thanks Simon), here is the original monorail cat and its inspired followers on I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?

Posted in Family, Just Kidding | 1 Comment

I For One Welcome Our AI Masters

Posted on June 30, 2007 by James McParlane

I had this idea a few years ago. Thought I would finally blog it. Lisp was the darling of AI research in the 70’s – Lisp is a Functional Language. Prolog was the darling of AI research in the 80’s – … Continue reading →

Posted in Just Kidding, Rants, Web0.0 | 1 Comment

Massive Has A … Ugh….

Posted on June 29, 2007 by James McParlane

Someone didn’t really think this through. This means I’m not preparing any food in the new Kitchen…

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