OddThinking

Data point for the spam-trackers: There has been a big hike in detected spam comments recently over the past couple of weeks.

I am working on a new lossy compression system for photos that takes advantage of a key fact about babies.

In which I discover that this sentence fragment is the most important part of the article, and other surprises.

Today is the 20th anniversary of my first email.

I found an iPod Shuffle last weekend. Just laying on the grass. Cool.

All timezone applications require you to specify what city you are in. I’ve never understood why you select the city rather than the state, province or country.

Both the Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 developers gave some thought to people like me. They realised their weird hybrids were going to confuse me, and they warn me that I am being stupid…

Thanks very much for the thought, guys… but….

When read in Outlook, emails sent from WordPress are formatted poorly. I finally have a hypothesis to explain this behaviour.

The Rational 1000 debugger had an optional feature – the ability to step-forward or backward through the code.

I examine the causes of poor business presentations, and then evaluate Edward Tufte’s criticism of PowerPoint.

(Note to casual readers: This is a long (6000 word) essay!)