OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

A New Owner’s Review of the Samsung D600 mobile phone

A review of the Samsung D600 that focuses on things that Samsung doesn’t tell you.

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Settling Up the Tabs

Both the Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 developers gave some thought to people like me. They realised their weird hybrids were going to confuse me, and they warn me that I am being stupid…

Thanks very much for the thought, guys… but….

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WordPress Versus Outlook: A Step Forward

When read in Outlook, emails sent from WordPress are formatted poorly. I finally have a hypothesis to explain this behaviour.

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Rational 1000: A Time-Travelling Debugger with No Future

The Rational 1000 debugger had an optional feature – the ability to step-forward or backward through the code.

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Playstation Considered Flawed

The last gaming console I ever bought was the Sony PlayStation. Maybe I am really missing out, but the PlayStation was so disappointing, I never felt the urge to move away from the PC-based video-games again.

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CSS versus HTML Tables

CSS Principles For the last twelve months, I have been trying to toe the party line when it comes to Cascading Style Sheets. Tables are our enemies. Div and span are allies and friends. Content shall never be mixed with formatting. Animals shall never sleep in beds. Err.. sorry, got distracted. Where was I? I […]

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Pretty Good Privacy, Pretty Bad Anonymity

An anonymous war-story about the dangers of relying on GNU Privacy Guard to protect your anonymity as well as your privacy.

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Rational 1000: A Version Control War Story

About an hour after I started the check-in process, a horrid thought occurred to me…

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Rational 1000: Lord of the Clipboard Rings

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

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Initial Thoughts on Google Pack

Google have announced Google Pack.

I was expecting an initial list of software at least twice as long!

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