OddThinking

What does moose taste like?

One Wednesday, a couple of years ago, I decided it was finally time to upgrade the RAM in my home PC, to make it run faster.

I upgraded my Motherboard BIOS today without incident.

Over time, experiences like the one this week have been evolving my views on several computer related topics.

To understand the genius of Camille Jordan, we need to do a little experiment together.

There’s somethink about chess computers…

Vitruvian Man trying to ride a unicycle, legs akimbo, arms waving backwards and forwards for balance.

Deb scorned: “Agatha Christie? All her mysteries follow the exact same formula – you can pick ’em every time!”

One short, cryptic error message in our application was causing a lot of confusion. I decided it was time to fix the problem.

I once found myself supporting a help-desk – handling the support requests that the help-desk agents themselves couldn’t handle. While handling these requests, my motto was “contrite and smarmy”. I would repeat that to myself as I checked over the email responses. I wanted the users to know that I was concerned about them, and […]