OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Data entry? Here’s what I think of Data entry!

The most challenging part of the data-entry was keeping focussed on such a tedious task. Allow me to illustrate how desperate I got.

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OTTF Solver

OTTF (short for One Two Three Four) is a simple single-person puzzle game.

I re-use my Game Framework to solve it.

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Separation of Church and Postage

Why is it cheaper to send a Christmas card?

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Categories: Observation
Tags: Australia Post, Australian culture, Christmas, economics, scrooge

Undirected Directory Delivery

This year, the Yellow Pages came with a bonus - more Yellow Pages.

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Categories: Cathartic Rant
Tags: rant, telephony

My computer has died.

The title says it all.

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Categories: About OddThinking, Geek
Tags: computer parts, motherboards

Flash Primitives

I used to have this theory about Adobe Flash programming, even though I have never done any.

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Categories: Observation, Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: actionscript, games, programming, web

HAL BBS Backdoors

There was a rumour out on the web out there that HAL BBS wasn’t to be trusted - it had two backdoors built into the software. It was compiled BASIC, so it wasn’t easy to view the source, but I had a bash at finding those backdoors.

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Categories: Based On A True Story, Doubleplus Geek
Tags: bbs, commodore 64, hacking, security

Online Photo DB: Stage 5 - First Hurdle with SmugMug

I wrongly came to a tentative paranoid conclusion about SmugMug.

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Categories: Geek
Tags: networks, online photo database, smugmug, web

Online Photo DB: Stage 5 - First Cut

I sifted through the 19 evaluation I have done, culling out the no-hopers, with aim of whittling it to three or four.

After one pass, I have it down to five, which is close.

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Online Photo DB: Stage 4t - Evaluation of Acquia Drupal