OddThinking

A note to the would-be pedant at Dallas-Fort Worth airport.

A number of free-form, non-traditional odes, written upon my return to my home after several weeks of travelling.

I discovered Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – a method of representing graphics primitives in an XML format, and have them be represented in your browser.

Cool! A new technology to learn, perfectly suited to my needs… or was it?

I’ve never had much respect when I hear the claim from politicians (and at least once, from a singer) that they don’t answer hypothetical questions. I give an recent extreme example from Australian politics.

When you look at free porn like an economist does, you can see this is truly the best way to prevent comment spam.

I have an inconsistency in my thinking about how I see the relationship between professionals and amateurs in various fields.

Can I work out the payback time for a rainwater tank?

If someone tells you a guy is gay, what are the chances they are right?

The four strengths of SBS: Independence, relaxed moral standards, no interruptions and soccer.

“People didn’t realise back then that there might be a better way. They just used the same systems their parents, and their parents’ parents, and their parents’ parents’ parents used.”

“And is that how the Usability Wars started?”