jamie balfour

about me

This section is all about me.

My name is Jamie Bonnar Balfour. I am known to many as Binary Balfour. I'm an 18 year old who is interested in computing.

My mother's side of the family...

Starting with my grandparents, I am the grandson Jean Paterson, who was a member (the granddaughter of the founder) of the family that is responsible for creating Paterson's (who manufacture oatcakes and other food) and her husband Alexander McKenzie who went to Cambridge University in England to read Law, before being called into fight for the country during the Second World War. Later on, my grandad became the editor of the Scottish Financial Times some time ago.

When they married, they had two children, one of them being my mother. My mother went to a Park School in Glasgow and then lived in Edinburgh for sometime. She met my father sometime before who was a Chemical Engineer over in Dubai.

My father's side of the family...

I don't know as much about my father's side of the family, but I do know my grandad died rather early on in my father's life (17). My grandma worked here and there, until settling down in Glasgow and had 5 children, one of whom (the last born) was my father.

My father was a Chemical Engineer for sometime, before going into Insurance and finally into Computing. Whilst we don't normally get on, when he's in his good moods, we can really have some fun, but most of the time we seem to argue.

What I believe in...

I am quite an open-minded person and have many beliefs and things that I support. In the computing industry I have been known for being a bit of a fan-boy for the following developments:

• HTML5
• Open-source programming
• DisplayPort over HDMI
• Solid state drives

Whilst I would normally say that I am not fond of other standards and products such as:

• USB
• Hard disk drives
• Adobe Flash
• Slate style only tablets

The companies that I do support currently are:

These companies are the companies whom I believe in well, as all of my dealings with them in the past have been excellent - whether it was a complaint or a purchase or whatever, they have always been excellent and so I back these companies. I also back them due to the fact that they are the manufacturers of some of the best components and products that I have.

For the games companies, that's a no brainer:

The first game I ever played in my life, when I was 4 years of age, was Warcraft Orcs and Humans. Since then I've owned the majority of the Blizzard games, in particular Warcraft ones, but I enjoy Starcraft just as much. Diablo has been a personal favourite game of mine for a long time also. Ensemble Studios are part of Microsoft Game Studios but I wanted them to have a bit of glory for the second game series I ever played - Age of Empires. My dad got me into this also, with the Rise of Rome (AOE1) and later the trial version of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. I later went and got my own copy of Age of Empires II game. Westwood are responsible for creating Command and Conquer. C&C95 would have been the third game I played, when one of my best mates; Nick, introduced it to me. Since then I have countinued to play the majority of the series.

Also, if you are interested in my Pokemon you can see them on my website as well by going to http://pokemon.jamiebalfour.com/.

Music

Music is nice and easy. The order goes Oasis, Beady Eye, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Kasabian, Muse, Travis, Coldplay, Pendulum, Gorrilaz and then The Beatles. Pretty simple, but I'm a well known fan of most of these bands, so you'll probably know this already.

The gadgets

As a collector of different types of awesome technological gadgets; I thought I should make a bit about them as it is a hobby for me to talk or write about gadgets; starting with:

The desktop computer (aka "The Zebra" 2011 on) Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 motherboard Intel Core i7 2600K 3.4GHz @ 3.7GHz 8GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 10066 RAM 1x 120GB OCZ Vertex 2, 3x 1TB, 2x 2TB Windows 7 Ultimate x64 XFX AMD Radeon 7950 DD Black Edition Blu-Ray ROM and Blu Ray RW drive Card reader Corsair Graphite 600T Limited Edition White Corsair HX850W PSU Microsoft Wireless Desktop 6000 v3 Logitech G500 gaming mouse (only for gaming) Corsair SP2100 2.1 speakers Asus PA238Q 23" 1920x1080 LCD LED IPS monitor DVI Wacom Bamboo Graphics tablet Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF Hauppauge HVR-1100 TV card 40" Samsung LE40C750 LCD TV in duplicate setup Wired Marley headphones

The convertible tablet (2010 on) Fujitsu Lifebook T4410 (3G version) Intel Core 2 Duo T6570 2.1GHz 8GB DDR3 10600 RAM 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD Windows 7 Professional and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 x32 HDMI, VGA, 3x USB 2.0, FireWire 400, ExpressCard, Gigabit Ethernet, 3-in-1 card reader DVD-RW Super-combo drive Digitizer pen and touch compatiable 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Convertible design Docking station

The TV Samsung LE40C750 40" LCD TV 1920x1080P 4x HDMI, 2x SCART, 1x Composite video, 1x Component video, 1x VGA, 1x RJ-45 Samsung HT D5000 home theatre system with 2 HDMI inputs

The camcorder Panasonic SD900 3D Lens 64GB SDXC Sony Vegas 11 editing software

The older gadgets and technology still get a place on this page:

The desktop computer (2009 - 2011) Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R motherboard Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz @ 4GHz 8GB DDR2 8500 RAM 1x 120GB SSD, 3x 1TB hard drives, 1x 2TB hard drive Windows 7 Ultimate x64 XFX ATI Radeon HD5670 Blu-Ray ROM, Blu-Ray RW and DVD-RW drives Card reader and Floppy disk drive Lian-Li PC-60B Plus Corsair HX850W PSU Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 v2 Labtec Arena 5.1 Surround sound Dell P2310h 23" 1920x1080 LCD monitor DVI Wacom Bamboo Graphics tablet Logitech Quickcam Sphere AF Hauppauge HVR-1100 TV card 40" Samsung LE40C750 LCD TV in duplicate setup Wireless Philips Headphones

The TV (2007 - 2011) Samsung LE40M87 40" LCD TV 1920x1080P 3x HDMI, 2x SCART, 1x Composite video, 1x Component video, 1x VGA Hyundai AV-48 and Logitech X530 speaker system

The netbook (2009 - 2012) Acer Aspire One A150X Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz 1GB DDR2 6400 RAM 120GB hard drive Windows XP Professional x32 1x VGA, 1x 10/100 Ethernet, 3x USB, 1x SD Reader, 1x 5-in-1 Card reader 8 hours+ battery

Jamie Balfour,

Site Administrator

� Copyright Jamie Balfour - the information on this site may not be reproduced without permission of the site administrator (Jamie Balfour)

Home                 Contact