OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Dealing with Common Blog Usability Problems

OddThinking suffers from a number of typical blog usability issues. I ponder how important they are, and how hard it is to fix them.

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Risk-Taking for Others

I offer a way of looking at human behaviour, as it is related to taking risks on behalf of other people.

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Categories: Observation

Python Imaging Library (PIL) and Animated GIFs

Let me save the next person some trouble: The Python Imaging Library (PIL 1.1.5) does not support writing animated GIFs.

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MarkDown is Dead! Long Live MarkDown!

I have just decommissioned Markdown. Here’s why.

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What’s the justification?

I don’t get the attitude to full-justification.

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Categories: Observation

False Positives and the Self-Healing AIDS Case

Review of the book “Reckoning with Risk” and its applicability to the case of Andrew Stimpson

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House Of Ethical Dilemma, Redux

I took the opportunity to ask a real estate agent about the House of Horror.

The answers I got were not exactly what I had in mind.

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House Of Ethical Dilemma

Should a real-estate agent be forced to tell prospects about triple-murders?

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Obvious Coding Style Guidelines

An example of an obviously poor coding style

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Kangaroo Patting – an Australian Family Ritual

People who aren’t from Australia will be unfamiliar with the place of the Kangaroo in a great Australian ritual. This is an attempt to explain a small piece of the Australian culture.

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