OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Courier versus Australia Post – Reliability Review

Should you use Australia Post or a courier for reliable delivery of valuable documents?

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Denmark Accord

Mr. World, our teacher, divided our class into groups and gave us a difficult assignment to do. Some project about climate or something. He warned us it was worth a large part of our assessment.

So we all agreed to meet at Denmark’s house (Man, that took a while to organise; most of the term was already done by the time we did.) We started divvying up the work – there was a lot of studying to do – and that’s when the arguments started.

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Collection Correction

In which Julian tries to choose a data-structure with a low constant time, in a low constant time.

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Categories: Observation,S/W Dev
Tags: software

python.CodingStyle().ishated = TRUE

The first obligation when faced with coding standards and style guidelines is to argue about, moan about and mock the appalling choices made by the so-called developers who came up with a style that is guaranteed to turn your code into an unreadable, unmaintainable mush.

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Time-Delay Password Safe

Use Case Name

Death of Computer User

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Categories: Observation,S/W Dev,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: estate, legal, software, will

Online Photo DB: Stage 6e – Another look at WordPress and PhotoQ

This post is part of the Online Photo Database project documentation. Learn more about the project’s current status. These notes on WordPress and PhotoQ are based on some additional evaluation I just performed. They should be read in conjunction with my previous notes on using WordPress and PhotoQ as a photo database solution. I went […]

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Online Photo DB: Stage 6d – Quick evaluation of Gallery 3

I was a little unfair and unreasonable to the Gallery team when I did this evaluation.

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Online Photo DB: Stage 6c – Deeper evaluation of Coppermine

A deeper evaluation of Coppermine.

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iPod v. BIOS

I just discovered the source of an intermittent boot problem I have noticed with my new computer. It was so bizarre, I wanted to tell someone immediately, and I know at least some of you guys will understand.

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A new owner’s review of the Canon EOS 50D

I recently purchased a Canon EOS 50D. Here is a personal review that talks about the stuff that doesn’t appear in the adverts.

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