OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Spatula Silly

Aren’t you bored of all these articles in the blogosphere, yammering about the finer points of spatula manufacture? Here’s yet another one jumping on the bandwagon. Sigh.

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Categories: Insufficiently Advanced Technology,Observation
Tags: plastics, plastics spatulas, spatulas

Is the Compiler a Distraction?

Is the real problem with compilers (and web-development and unit-tests) that they force a context-switch in the middle of the development process?

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Categories: Observation,S/W Dev,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: brain, distractions, productivity, software, unit tests

There’s only one thing worse than having unit tests…

Wherein Julian bitches pointlessly about unit tests because it is late at night and he is bored of running them.

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Categories: Cathartic Rant,S/W Dev

Why allow early check-in?

I believe allowing passengers to check-in before arriving at the airport hinders the airlines in their predictions of how many people will board. I don’t understand why airlines are allowing it.

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Categories: Observation
Tags: airlines

My Zombie Plan Plan

When I become President of Australia, it will not be illegal to publish your Zombie Plan, your Velociraptor Plan, your Time-traveller-stranded-in-the-past plan or your Last-person-alive-on-Earth plan.

However…

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Framework Work-out

Wherein Julian finds he can re-use hobby code to solve a real-life problem.

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Julian’s Job Status FAQ

Julian has kind of had a new job, slightly, for some time.

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Categories: About OddThinking

Courier versus Australia Post – Reliability Review

Should you use Australia Post or a courier for reliable delivery of valuable documents?

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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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Categories: Uncategorized

Expensive In Deed

I was going to go into a rant questioning what century we are in…

But then I did some research for this post.

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