OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Breaking the (Slide) Rules

In which Julian uses a modern computer (capable of billions of multiplications a second) as a notebook to record how to make a slide-rule (capable of performing a few per minute).

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Categories: Doubleplus Geek

EmailMeNot

There is a constant tension between the web-site owners who want to harvest your email address for marketing and the web-users who want to access content without the bother.

As someone who fast-forwards through the adverts when watching recorded television, you can guess where I stand on this.

I propose a new service, EmailMeNot.

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Time-Delay Password Safe

Use Case Name

Death of Computer User

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Categories: Observation,S/W Dev,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: estate, legal, software, will

Online Photo DB: Stage 6e – Another look at WordPress and PhotoQ

This post is part of the Online Photo Database project documentation. Learn more about the project’s current status. These notes on WordPress and PhotoQ are based on some additional evaluation I just performed. They should be read in conjunction with my previous notes on using WordPress and PhotoQ as a photo database solution. I went […]

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Online Photo DB: Stage 6d – Quick evaluation of Gallery 3

I was a little unfair and unreasonable to the Gallery team when I did this evaluation.

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Online Photo DB: Stage 6c – Deeper evaluation of Coppermine

A deeper evaluation of Coppermine.

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iPod v. BIOS

I just discovered the source of an intermittent boot problem I have noticed with my new computer. It was so bizarre, I wanted to tell someone immediately, and I know at least some of you guys will understand.

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Online Photo DB: Stage 6b – Deeper evaluation of Flickr

A deeper evaluation of Flickr.

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Online PhotoDB: Stage 6a – Deeper evaluation of SmugMug

A deeper evaluation of SmugMug.

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Online Photo DB: Stage 6 – Privacy Requirements clarification

Further exploration of my Privacy Requirements

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