OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Let’s Fail-To-Log-In Again, Like We Did Last Summer

An observation about browsers remembering passwords

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Sales Techniques with Energy

Why is there so much pressure on me to lock-in to an electricity supply contract?

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Shannon Poll: Information Theory and Electoral Mandates

A look at whether Information Theory supports the idea of a mandate from the Australian electorate

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Mail-Merge: A War Story

1500 mouse-clicks at 5 second intervals = over 2 hours of mouse-clicking.

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Editing Own Comments

When one of my readers asked for the ability to edit comments in WordPress, I took that request seriously, and decided to find the solution.

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You can’t always get WYW

Comparing WYSIWYG and Markup

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Lining up the WordPress filters

The more things change, the less happy I am with BASIC line numbers.

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Old schemes

Reminiscing about a programming language

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Categories: Geek,Humour,Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: programming language, Scheme, software

Clearly Erroneous

One short, cryptic error message in our application was causing a lot of confusion. I decided it was time to fix the problem.

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Treating cliches like the plague

Identifying bad movie cliches now may help your children’s future…

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