OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Vitrunicycling Man

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

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Maintaining the mystery

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

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Clearly Erroneous

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

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Contrite and Smarmy

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 […]

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After-images from fireworks

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

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Indoor Marbleous Championships

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

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Lady of the Lord of the Flies

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

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Shooting the code

A programming war-story about the Commodore 64.

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The Printer Episode

An old war-story about faulty printers

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Hurt by the Hula, Part II

Julian gets beaten again…

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