OddThinking

Wishing someone a Happy New Year may subject you to a Denial-of-Service Attack

I ran a Monte Carlo simulation to test whether occasional attendees have a rosier view of attendance levels than the regulars.

I have decided to abandon screen, and am returning to having to re-login each day.

I am filing this under “I am doing Linux wrong, but I don’t know where.”

An idea for a science history project you are welcome to do instead of me.

A whinge about my server host.

Here is a short, fictionalised, autobiographical play I wrote, in which unit-tests cause more technical debt than the code.

Further study into placebos leads to some surprising findings.

One of the many reasons I have been quiet recently is I am working on a personal project – an amateur stop-motion video. The final product will appear to be a large group of my friends playing music in an orchestra. The raw material I have is dozens of sets of still photos of my friends pretending to play instruments in front of a green-screen. Each set has about 10 photos of the person playing the instrument.

I am working on an interesting challenge, and I thought that I might benefit if I wrote it out as a blog article to force me to think it through.

Tying together the Nonblocking Log Handler story.

Here’s an idea for a Hangman variation, that I am calling Fuzzy Hangman.