OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Recent Down-Times, An Exploration

Recently (since the move to a new server a few months ago), Somethinkodd.com has been down for a couple of minutes, many many times.

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The Herald’s Dam-In-Distress-Sell

A quick look at the Sydney dam levels, as illustrated by the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Installing in Unison

I installed Unison a few days ago. It is a very useful application – it keeps folders on different machines synchronised. I have been using it to edit files locally, and have them hosted by my web-server when I am ready.

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What are the correct DTD incantations?

In the EmailShroud 2.0 plugin, I use a couple of non-standard attributes on the anchor tag.

Now, I am looking at cleaning it up and ensure it exhibits nothing but pure validation goodness…

I just don’t know how.

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Fixed: Avoiding Email Spam Leads to Comment Spam

Short version: OddThinking occasionally gets some weird off-topic comments on the EmailShroud page. I have taken some action, and I am hoping it will stop now.

Longer more interesting version follows…

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Soccer versus Television

I explain why I don’t like watching soccer on television.

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Deleted items in Feed Aggregators

Spam comments sometimes get added to my comments feed, and never get removed.

I have understood this problem for a while, and yesterday I set out to patch it.

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Apricot Squares

I wouldn’t call myself a great cook, but I get by. It is important in life to have a few standby killer recipes. One of those recipes is Apricot Squares.

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An Open Letter to the Open Source Lawyers

Here’s what I want in an Open Source license…

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Candidates for the UI Disaster Museum

In which Julian whinges about two embedded user-interfaces, mainly because he has photos.

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