OddThinking

What is the best cleaning solution for glass in my bathroom? No, seriously!

I take a science geek view.

One of the downsides of not having an salary is that my high-tech gadget purchases have to be heavily curtailed. That doesn’t mean I have to give up on gadget reviews entirely… I just need to adjust my expectations. One of the errands I ran the other day was to visit the company that was […]

I had never played Unicycling Limbo before. I had never seen it played. I had never heard of it being played. It was, however, the perfect game for the occasion.

Dear T-,

Thank you for your postcard. It was very nice to read it.

On Saturday, I helped to make a movie about monsters.

I unnecessarily answer the ambiguity issue in the Circuit Puzzle, in living colour.

Another puzzle solved with the same architecture as before, but this time, with added code re-use.

I have wanted to complete my migration from CUA to Bendigo Bank for some time. In fact, it was two-and-a-half years ago that I complained that my local Credit Union Australia (CUA) branch had closed, and that I was assessing Bendigo Bank as a replacement. To close my CUA account, I think I have to […]

In this article, I introduce another puzzle game, talk about some variations that are possible, provide a glossary (and then fail to use it, for now), discuss how the puzzle is solved, and then promise more in a future article.

I have a Object-Orientation question, related to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. I suspect it will have a simple “here is the idiom everyone uses for this situation” type answer, but I haven’t found it. Here’s a fictional piece of software that demonstrates my problem.

I talk about why I have been quiet on the blog, what I have been up to, and foreshadow a couple of ideas which might turn into articles in the future.