OddThinking

A review of the Samsung D600 that focuses on things that Samsung doesn’t tell you.

Both the Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 developers gave some thought to people like me. They realised their weird hybrids were going to confuse me, and they warn me that I am being stupid…

Thanks very much for the thought, guys… but….

When read in Outlook, emails sent from WordPress are formatted poorly. I finally have a hypothesis to explain this behaviour.

Subscribers to my RSS comments feed may have noticed a recent increase in the number of “obvious” spams getting through.

The good news is I reported it to the author of SpamKarma. He has a solution in mind, and hopes to implement it very shortly.

The Rational 1000 debugger had an optional feature – the ability to step-forward or backward through the code.

The word “hubris” sounds like should be a good thing. Saying someone has a “sense of hubris” makes it sound like they have a nice mix of a sense of humility, humanity and humour.

Whoever decided it should actually mean “conceit” was clearly having a bad day and made a simple error. Let’s fix it now.

Let me try another magic trick on you, based on hidden conventions.

When I become the CEO of a major car-manufacturer, I’m going to start selling my cars in a very different way.

I examine the causes of poor business presentations, and then evaluate Edward Tufte’s criticism of PowerPoint.

(Note to casual readers: This is a long (6000 word) essay!)

A conversation in the back-streets of a French university leaves me smiling… at first.