OddThinking

M looks grim, in his wood-panelled London office.
“Bond, this is serious. SPECTRE have one of our key scientists kidnapped. They want ten of our secret programs mailed to them from around the world. For each program that fails to arrive, they will chop off one of his fingers, before he is released. He needs those [...]

A quick whinge about the expression “Throughout history, there has never been a downturn which the market hasn’t recovered from,” while I procrastinate from reading more financial news.

Dear Web Server Owners

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

Smokey Robinson made a throw-away comment that has been bugging me.

Why the hell won’t anyone sell me a damn mop with a handle that comes up past nipple height?

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.

Microsoft Visio 2007 has some new shapes in the Drawing Tool Shapes template, which give me better drawing options for circles.

I am doing a little nerdy happy dance.

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

I’ve been losing a few skirmishes against Trackback spam recently. More than a few, I guess; they are hammering the site.

You need to write a conventional will, but you should bequeath all of your money to Somethinkodd Estate Services.

I am not trying to run a scam, but how could I convince a potential customer of that?