OddThinking

As a long-term project, I wish to re-host my photographs. I believe you do too, but perhaps you haven’t realised it yet.

Microsoft Visio 2007 has some new shapes in the Drawing Tool Shapes template, which give me better drawing options for circles.

I am doing a little nerdy happy dance.

I am in a dilemma about how to tell Google to not index my pages.

I studied cognitive computing at uni. The class was an interesting mix of computing students and cognitive psychology students. The different backgrounds lead to some interesting discussions.

Is Google objectifying women, by suggesting the most important thing about them is photos of their bodies?

In which Julian challenges the thinking of the Mensa executive.

Alphametics (aka verbal arithmetic, cryptarithmetic and others) puzzles are an old puzzle where letters are substituted for numbers in simple equations. Go search for alphametics for lots of examples.

These puzzles never really captured my fancy, which is, weirdly enough, why I recently implemented a “puzzle helper” to help solve them.