OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

New web host

If you are reading this on the OddThinking site: Congratulations, your DNS is up-to-date. If you are reading this on a feed aggregator: Congratulations, their DNS is up-to-date. If you are reading this through an email subscription: Bah! That proves nothing! Let me know if you notice any peculiarities with the new home. Update: Now […]

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Categories: About OddThinking
Tags: oddthinking

Tracking Cell Phones for Fun and Profit

How I could monetize my elite web-skills.

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Transitioning + CISRA Puzzles

I’ve been quiet lately, because I have been working hard on transitioning to a new web host provider. I am sure there will be a few posts about that once the dust has settled. Hopefully any down time during the transition will be kept to a minimum. If I did have spare time, I wouldn’t […]

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The Herald’s Dam-In-Distress-Sell

A quick look at the Sydney dam levels, as illustrated by the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Installing in Unison

I installed Unison a few days ago. It is a very useful application – it keeps folders on different machines synchronised. I have been using it to edit files locally, and have them hosted by my web-server when I am ready.

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Happy Second Anniversary, OddThinking!

I summarise the second year of operations of OddThinking.

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Sign Copy-Editing

We at OddThinking are pleased to announce a new copy-editing service. We’ll edit your signs for legibility and clarity for a low, low price.

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What are the correct DTD incantations?

In the EmailShroud 2.0 plugin, I use a couple of non-standard attributes on the anchor tag.

Now, I am looking at cleaning it up and ensure it exhibits nothing but pure validation goodness…

I just don’t know how.

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Fixed: Avoiding Email Spam Leads to Comment Spam

Short version: OddThinking occasionally gets some weird off-topic comments on the EmailShroud page. I have taken some action, and I am hoping it will stop now.

Longer more interesting version follows…

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Draft SMS messages

I post this now, so if I die suddenly strange circumstances, you can convince the police that, no, I wasn’t murdered by terrorists trying to to get to the secret formula on my phone.

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Categories: Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: Humour