OddThinking

The Rational 1000 didn’t have a Save command. Well, it did, but it wasn’t called Save, and I didn’t really need it, and it didn’t really Save. Well I did need it once, but… well let me start at the beginning.

The Rational 1000 supplied a level of control over the clipboard, cursor position and windows layout that I still miss today.

The most astonishing part of the GUI greeted you before you had even logged on: the keyboard template attached to the keyboard.

Like an adept Tekken player, I could kick buggy code’s arse with kung fu debug combos that the code was never expecting.

Using a Rational 1000 was like immersive learning for Ada!

Julian tries not to get teary-eyed, as he gets nostalgic about a development environment?!

Could we stage a cheap Denial of Service against nasty people?

Once I dreamt that someone told me a very funny riddle. […] “Cool,” I thought, “Independent verification! It really is funny!”

As I sat on my living room floor, a strange woman with bedraggled hair came up to the glass back door. She simply opened it without knocking and started striding in.

“I want a digital camera!” Mel exclaimed, “Tell me what type should I get?” It was mid-2001, and digital camera were just starting to boom.

I was doubtful. “I don’t think they are any good yet. Maybe in a couple of years…”

OddThinking suffers from a number of typical blog usability issues. I ponder how important they are, and how hard it is to fix them.