OddThinking

I have noticed my latest favourite word is “conflating“.

It’s interesting how memory works and the way we observe things. It’s particularly interesting how memory fails to work, and we don’t notice it.

An anonymous war-story about the dangers of relying on GNU Privacy Guard to protect your anonymity as well as your privacy.

Google have announced Google Pack.

I was expecting an initial list of software at least twice as long!

I am concerned that when I die, it will be like in the movies or on TV. Someone will turn to the bereaved and say “We have to continue with the big match/mountain ascension/wild sex party/insert-project-name-here. It is what Julian would have wanted…”

I just did a road-trip, so I was thinking about blogs and stuff as I drove along.

Who are my most valuable readers?

If – and only if – I don’t see you before then, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

There’s a very good reason why I am not a fully-qualified Electronics Engineer. The reason is that electricity doesn’t work.

I don’t mind the English language evolving; I just wish we could focus our attention…

I identify the need for a new international organisation – one that manages a definitive library of hand signals and the like.