OddThinking

I am told it is World Homeopathy Awareness Week.

I can get behind that.

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Of all the various conflicting ideas that people believe, homeopathy is special, in that it is completely and throughly understood by science, by logic and reason, to be totally and utterly wrong.

I put it to you that the fact that you cannot simple questions about pizza sizes strongly indicates that self-regulation of the Italian meal industry has failed us, and it is time for the government to impose its own standards.

Julian complains a phone app, designed to replicate a battery, a lightbulb and a switch, is over-engineered.

Julian explains why is is a grumpy curmudgeon who hates water-pistols and other forms of fun.

A whinge about my server host.

Not too far from where I live is a mall containing a branded pasticceria café. They have several prominent framed poster-boards, several of which display the following quote, attributed to the owner: “The quality of our cakes linger long after the value of the price is gone.” For some reason, these advertisements scrape particular hard […]

The remarkable mathematical property a Golden Rectangle has is that its long side divided by its shortest side is exactly equal to the ratio of the number of bullshit claims about the Golden Rectangles compared to truthful ones.

In which Julian attacks weight-loss supplements, Agile development, TV show segues, Chaos Theory and Economics, just so build up enough momentum to attack a much-beloved (by him!) computer science legend about something he wrote over 20 years ago.

What my current project has taught me about refactoring:

Here are the specs for a great weekend project that I don’t have time for, that would improve my cross-development productivity.