OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Facial Fatigue

Here’s a little anatomy practical you can try at home.

Relax your face, and then calmly say the words “Double-you Tee Eff” out aloud. Note which muscles are used.

Now, repeat the experiment, but this time say the words “What the fuck?” out aloud.

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iTunes and I

I hadn’t used iTunes for a while, so I decide to give it another go and use it to play a couple of tracks.

The result involves some swearing.

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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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A New Owner’s Review of the Samsung D600 mobile phone

A review of the Samsung D600 that focuses on things that Samsung doesn’t tell you.

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Settling Up the Tabs

Both the Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 developers gave some thought to people like me. They realised their weird hybrids were going to confuse me, and they warn me that I am being stupid…

Thanks very much for the thought, guys… but….

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WYWIWYG

If you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.

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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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