OddThinking

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.

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

At its heart it’s a simple concept. Every type of sound that your computer makes is mapped onto a tree.

If you believe the hype, RSS (including Atom) feeds are the greatest thing since sliced bread. I think they are great, but they still have a lot to learn from sliced bread! RSS still needs the same sort of benefits of increased usability and standardisation that sliced bread brought to bread-making and toasting.

“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…”

An Open Letter to the WordPress Architect about an issue that I have found.

Let me save the next person some trouble: The Python Imaging Library (PIL 1.1.5) does not support writing animated GIFs.

I am not entirely happy with the choices of categories on OddThinking, which has lead me to ask the obvious question: “What is the problem that that categories are expected to solve?”

I have just decommissioned Markdown. Here’s why.

There are lots of major issues with Internet Explorer that I wish they would fix. Here is a really, really minor one that annoys me again and again.