OddThinking

He was soon being groomed for the highest public office in the land… There was however, a fly in the ointment.

Here’s an idea for a Hangman variation, that I am calling Fuzzy Hangman.

So, you think you are pretty good at Hangman? You think you have what it takes?

Well, I am here to tell you the truth.

I was thinking today, as I chopped some vegetables. Follow my train of thought, from the mundane to the inspired.

In which Enumerated Types are compared by programming language

It’s a corporate Christmas party, around 1999. The dot com crash hasn’t happened yet, the party-organisers have a considerable budget, 200-300 guests, and an idea of a good time strongly influenced by the company’s sales and marketing teams – people who have a tendency to differ from my idea of a good time.

I consider how to maximise my happiness in this situation.

In which Julian attacks weight-loss supplements, Agile development, TV show segues, Chaos Theory and Economics, just so build up enough momentum to attack a much-beloved (by him!) computer science legend about something he wrote over 20 years ago.

What my current project has taught me about refactoring:

The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life; is this an pro-atheist or pro-libertarian democracy manifesto?

A brief study in which I compare the professed religion of Australian Prime Ministers to the professed religion of Australians over the past 50 years.