OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Robots.txt Boost: Don’t record these URLs

I am in a dilemma about how to tell Google to not index my pages.

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Categories: Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: Google, HTML, robots.txt, search engines, web

Trackback tricks

I’ve been losing a few skirmishes against Trackback spam recently. More than a few, I guess; they are hammering the site.

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Using Facebook Against Your Will

You need to write a conventional will, but you should bequeath all of your money to Somethinkodd Estate Services.

I am not trying to run a scam, but how could I convince a potential customer of that?

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Mensa Membership

In which Julian challenges the thinking of the Mensa executive.

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Crossing the line

When you are a kid, making art is the only job that you can do to pay your way. Colouring-in is the closest you have to real responsibility.

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iTunes and I

I hadn’t used iTunes for a while, so I decide to give it another go and use it to play a couple of tracks.

The result involves some swearing.

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Shuffling and Ownage

In which Jeff Atwood dismisses my experience as “naïve”…

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Categories: Doubleplus Geek,Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: cards, Coding Horror, randomness, security, shuffling

Sat Nav Lust

My sense of direction is all but non-existent, so I have wanted a working Satellite Navigation system for my car for years.

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Canon Flash Repair

This is a Bad News/Good News story. I have mainly written it to help people who suffer the same problems with their flash gun.

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Open Letter: Developers of my Next Email Client

Dear developers of my next email client,

Let me tell you about all the names of my friend.

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