OddThinking

Microsoft Visio 2007 has some new shapes in the Drawing Tool Shapes template, which give me better drawing options for circles.

I am doing a little nerdy happy dance.

Is Google objectifying women, by suggesting the most important thing about them is photos of their bodies?

In which Julian challenges the thinking of the Mensa executive.

Do you remember this washing maching user-interface?

Turns out the usability wasn’t the only problem.

One of my hobbies is explaining to non-Australians the meaning behind Australian holidays.

Did you ever notice that some people (all people?) have certain phrases that they use a disproportionately high percentage of the time?

You may find in infuriating or endearing – probably depending on what you think of the person anyway.

I was wondering what my commonly-repeated phrases might be.

Then I realised I had a large corpus of my writing on this blog, and I may be able to do an experiment to find out.

I hadn’t used iTunes for a while, so I decide to give it another go and use it to play a couple of tracks.

The result involves some swearing.

If we stare at this long enough, will a reason become apparent?

Any ideas? Is it very country-specific?