OddThinking

I will be travelling to the United States soon, for the first time in many years. I am surprised at the strength of my objections to one small inconvenience being foisted upon me during my journey.

“She sells sea-shells by the sea-shore.”

Err… Thanks, but no thanks. I’m fine for sea-shells at the moment.

In which Julian explores his biggest source of data loss.

As President of Australia, I will obliterate the casual use of the car horn to indicate “Good bye”, “Nice legs” and “Excuse me, I was in this lane first! Please find your own lane!”

One day, I am going to do some original research into a question that has plagued and haunted me – nay, us all – for years – a question that needs to be solved, once and for all, if we are ever to live in a harmonious society.

On a shared office printer, are mandatory banner pages simply a waste of paper?

I discovered Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – a method of representing graphics primitives in an XML format, and have them be represented in your browser.

Cool! A new technology to learn, perfectly suited to my needs… or was it?

I’ve never had much respect when I hear the claim from politicians (and at least once, from a singer) that they don’t answer hypothetical questions. I give an recent extreme example from Australian politics.

When you look at free porn like an economist does, you can see this is truly the best way to prevent comment spam.