OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Flash Primitives

I used to have this theory about Adobe Flash programming, even though I have never done any.

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Categories: Observation,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: actionscript, games, programming, web

Online Photo DB: Stage 5 – First Hurdle with SmugMug

I wrongly came to a tentative paranoid conclusion about SmugMug.

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Categories: Geek
Tags: networks, online photo database, smugmug, web

WordPress Plugin Idea: Prevent Undermining by Social News sites

I have a great idea for another plugin for WordPress

It detects when people are redirected from Reddit.

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MP3 Mime Type

Dear Web Server Owners

Your MP3 files should have an MIME type of audio/mpeg.

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Australian Parliament may harm your computer.

I hope by the time you read this, the problem will be fixed, but embarrassingly, our parliament has been taken over by hackers – and a full 6 months ahead of my plans!

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Web Security and ING Direct

Someone is being a fool and not understanding some of the basics of computer security. That person is either (a) the head of security at ING Direct or (b) it is me.

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Online Photo DB: Stage 2 – Clean Requirements

Stage Two: clean up the requirements, categorise, prioritise and number them.

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Online Photo DB: Stage 1 – Problem Statement, Loose Requirements

As a long-term project, I wish to re-host my photographs. I believe you do too, but perhaps you haven’t realised it yet.

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Robots.txt Boost: Don’t record these URLs

I am in a dilemma about how to tell Google to not index my pages.

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Categories: Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: Google, HTML, robots.txt, search engines, web

Is Google Search sexist?

Is Google objectifying women, by suggesting the most important thing about them is photos of their bodies?

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Categories: Geek,Observation
Tags: experiment, Google, names, sexism, statistics, web