OddThinking

Vitruvian Man trying to ride a unicycle, legs akimbo, arms waving backwards and forwards for balance.

Deb scorned: “Agatha Christie? All her mysteries follow the exact same formula – you can pick ’em every time!”

One short, cryptic error message in our application was causing a lot of confusion. I decided it was time to fix the problem.

I once found myself supporting a help-desk – handling the support requests that the help-desk agents themselves couldn’t handle. While handling these requests, my motto was “contrite and smarmy”. I would repeat that to myself as I checked over the email responses. I wanted the users to know that I was concerned about them, and […]

An assortment of images inspired by Territory Day fireworks in Darwin.

Julian discovers the highs and the lows of marble runs, and the convoluted back-and-forth journey between them.

Sherrill and I are in a tiny, uni-directional book club.

A programming war-story about the Commodore 64.

An old war-story about faulty printers

Julian gets beaten again…