OddThinking

The four strengths of SBS: Independence, relaxed moral standards, no interruptions and soccer.

Bloglines, a web-based feed-aggregator has invited people to blog their feedback on their application (and on other products).

I’ll take the bait. I’ll admit to using Bloglines, and provide some feedback here.

In which I continue to bitch about the Samsung D600 – but particularly about the PC calendar synching software that is bundled with it.

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

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.

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!

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

I have just decommissioned Markdown. Here’s why.