OddThinking

An essential guide to getting through your email faster.

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

Top Excuses I have Tried to Use to Explain the Horribly Disfiguring Scab on my Cheek This Week

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.

To: All of the airline passengers of the world.
Re: Baggage Collection, Process Clarification

Dear Fellow Passenger,

The following instruction is simple, and should be carried out with immediate effect.

A review of the Samsung D600 that focuses on things that Samsung doesn’t tell you.

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….

Let me try another magic trick on you, based on hidden conventions.

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!)

There’s a new branch of the Bendigo Bank nearby. I don’t want to move my accounts, holus-bolus, until they have proven themselves. This post is an ongoing thread to remind myself of the experiences I have with a Beta Test of the bank over the next three months or so, so I can decide whether it is worth the pain of the full transition.