OddThinking

Julian makes a pointless pointed comment about the food served in typical US restaurants.

Thanks GIO Insurance for ringing me today. You saved me a lot of money!

A number of free-form, non-traditional odes, written upon my return to my home after several weeks of travelling.

I will be travelling to the United States soon, for the first time in many years. I am surprised at the strength of my objections to one small inconvenience being foisted upon me during my journey.

In which Julian explores his biggest source of data loss.

As President of Australia, I will obliterate the casual use of the car horn to indicate “Good bye”, “Nice legs” and “Excuse me, I was in this lane first! Please find your own lane!”

I discovered Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – a method of representing graphics primitives in an XML format, and have them be represented in your browser.

Cool! A new technology to learn, perfectly suited to my needs… or was it?

I’ve never had much respect when I hear the claim from politicians (and at least once, from a singer) that they don’t answer hypothetical questions. I give an recent extreme example from Australian politics.

If someone tells you a guy is gay, what are the chances they are right?

The four strengths of SBS: Independence, relaxed moral standards, no interruptions and soccer.