OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

404 Julian Not Found

I moved to a new part of Sydney about April last year. It is a tricky place to find.

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Passing Challenge

Description of the rules, history and future of the Passing Challenge competition for juggling conventions.

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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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Live Action Tetris

I propose draft rules for Live Action Tetris, for your joy, refinement and refined enjoyment.

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Tags: games gaming rules

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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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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Synching my Samsung D600

This month, after another frustrating synching experience with Samsung PC Studio, I decided to write my own D600 phone interfacing software.

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A Critique of Three Puzzles and a Poem

In which Julian grumbles pointlessly about a couple of word puzzles and a kid’s poem, and then is reminded of a better example of a word puzzle, discovers something interesting about a puzzle’s origin, and goes off a little happier.

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Tags: linguistics, puzzles, use-mention

Online Photo DB: Stage 4e – Evaluation of BeenUp2.com

OddThinking Feed Problems

OddThinking is apparently suffering from a bug in WordPress.

If you can’t see this post, then you may have the problem it is talking about.

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