OddThinking

Realising I had been procrastinating about booking some flights and accommodation, today I went to a travel agent and got it done.

A travel agent. Bricks and mortar.

Odd.

One day I was thinking about the tradition of April Fools’ Day RFC Submissions and thought it would be fun to do a similar parody, but based on the Patent Submission form.

Here is a short, fictionalised, autobiographical play I wrote, in which unit-tests cause more technical debt than the code.

In which Julian stumbles over a serious gotcha in Python’s SMTPHandler for logging messages.

Do we really need to operate?

Dear T-,

Thank you for your postcard. It was very nice to read it.

On Saturday, I helped to make a movie about monsters.

I have wanted to complete my migration from CUA to Bendigo Bank for some time. In fact, it was two-and-a-half years ago that I complained that my local Credit Union Australia (CUA) branch had closed, and that I was assessing Bendigo Bank as a replacement. To close my CUA account, I think I have to […]

In which the author reveals his age, and reviews an old electronic game.

I hope by the time you read this, the problem will be fixed, but embarrassingly, our parliament has been taken over by hackers – and a full 6 months ahead of my plans!

My psychic connection was almost spot on… and yet my psychic senses detect that some people are skeptical of my skills… they are thinking… wait, the message is coming through: WORST… PSYCHIC… EVER!