OddThinking

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.

“That’s so true!” she interjected, while I started kicking myself for my own stupidity. How did I let myself get in this awkward situation again?

Here are the specs for a great weekend project that I don’t have time for, that would improve my cross-development productivity.

DDOS attacks continue to affect up-time and apology quality.