OddThinking

In which Julian stumbles over a serious gotcha in Python’s SMTPHandler for logging messages.

The idea of the computer popping up each morning and saying “Well done! You just hit your highest week’s turnover ever.” or “Oh dear! You had your worst continuous run of profit-less transactions in a row!” might make my job more interesting…

Aren’t you bored of all these articles in the blogosphere, yammering about the finer points of spatula manufacture? Here’s yet another one jumping on the bandwagon. Sigh.

Is the real problem with compilers (and web-development and unit-tests) that they force a context-switch in the middle of the development process?

Wherein Julian bitches pointlessly about unit tests because it is late at night and he is bored of running them.

I believe allowing passengers to check-in before arriving at the airport hinders the airlines in their predictions of how many people will board. I don’t understand why airlines are allowing it.

When I become President of Australia, it will not be illegal to publish your Zombie Plan, your Velociraptor Plan, your Time-traveller-stranded-in-the-past plan or your Last-person-alive-on-Earth plan.

However…

Wherein Julian finds he can re-use hobby code to solve a real-life problem.