OddThinking

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?”

Julian tries to buy a printer. The department store has policies. Hilarity ensues.

I have just decommissioned Markdown. Here’s why.

Review of the book “Reckoning with Risk” and its applicability to the case of Andrew Stimpson

I took the opportunity to ask a real estate agent about the House of Horror.

The answers I got were not exactly what I had in mind.

When you form an opinion on BetFair, please ignore the nonsense about un-Australian acts and the ability in BetFair to (Shock! Horror!) bet against a horse.

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.

I think that *case-preserving, case-insensitivity* is, almost always, the optimal behaviour. This may be somewhat controversial, so let me explain my position.

War-story about a word processor