OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Installing in Unison

I installed Unison a few days ago. It is a very useful application – it keeps folders on different machines synchronised. I have been using it to edit files locally, and have them hosted by my web-server when I am ready.

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What are the correct DTD incantations?

In the EmailShroud 2.0 plugin, I use a couple of non-standard attributes on the anchor tag.

Now, I am looking at cleaning it up and ensure it exhibits nothing but pure validation goodness…

I just don’t know how.

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An Open Letter to the Open Source Lawyers

Here’s what I want in an Open Source license…

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Candidates for the UI Disaster Museum

In which Julian whinges about two embedded user-interfaces, mainly because he has photos.

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/D/ versus /T/: A Linguistic Puzzle

Can you come up with two different words (spelling irrelevant but different meanings) which are pronounced exactly the same except that the “th” sound is voiced in one and not in the other?

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Announcing EmailShroud 2.0

EmailShroud 2.0 is now freely available.

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EmailShroud 2.0 Beta Testing

I am “eating my own dog-food” by testing EmailShroud 2.0, live on OddThinking.

If you notice any problems you can email me at emailshroud.

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Old schemes

Reminiscing about a programming language

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Categories: Geek,Humour,Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: programming language, Scheme, software

Chess Software Blues

There’s somethink about chess computers…

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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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