http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking A blog for odd things and odd thoughts. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2009/08/09/breaking-the-slide-rules/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2009/08/09/breaking-the-slide-rules/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:26:59 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=1031 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2009/08/09/breaking-the-slide-rules/feed/ 2 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2009/03/11/ipod-v-bios/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2009/03/11/ipod-v-bios/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:28:47 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=984 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2009/03/11/ipod-v-bios/feed/ 4 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/12/09/hal-bbs-backdoors/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/12/09/hal-bbs-backdoors/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:03:33 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=881 out on the web out there that HAL BBS wasn't to be trusted - it had two backdoors built into the software. It was compiled BASIC, so it wasn't easy to view the source, but I had a bash at finding those backdoors.]]> http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/12/09/hal-bbs-backdoors/feed/ 0 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/10/24/age-membership-length-and-reputation-distribution-on-stackoverflow/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/10/24/age-membership-length-and-reputation-distribution-on-stackoverflow/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:39:50 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=693 post there, I wrote a simple web-crawler that looked at the age, membership length and reputation of the users of StackOverflow. I describe the method below, for people who like hearing about software. I graph the results below for people who like looking at colourful graphs. At the bottom, I have a quick conclusion for people who just want the summary. ]]> http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/10/24/age-membership-length-and-reputation-distribution-on-stackoverflow/feed/ 6 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/08/18/chemical-word-ladders/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/08/18/chemical-word-ladders/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:10:35 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=593 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/08/18/chemical-word-ladders/feed/ 12 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/04/18/chaos-theory-references-over-internet-history-exploring-your-world-with-graphs/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/04/18/chaos-theory-references-over-internet-history-exploring-your-world-with-graphs/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:22:21 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=540 ]]> http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/04/18/chaos-theory-references-over-internet-history-exploring-your-world-with-graphs/feed/ 1 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/13/knuths-greatest-ever-paper/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/13/knuths-greatest-ever-paper/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:42:58 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/13/knuths-greatest-ever-paper/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/13/knuths-greatest-ever-paper/feed/ 2 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/04/message-passing-in-my-puzzle-solving-architecture/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/04/message-passing-in-my-puzzle-solving-architecture/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:45:59 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/04/message-passing-in-my-puzzle-solving-architecture/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2008/01/04/message-passing-in-my-puzzle-solving-architecture/feed/ 11 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/12/09/shuffling-and-ownage/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/12/09/shuffling-and-ownage/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:41:27 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/12/09/shuffling-and-ownage/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/12/09/shuffling-and-ownage/feed/ 7 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/08/23/righting-a-theory-of-computation-wrong/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/08/23/righting-a-theory-of-computation-wrong/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:16:15 +0000 Julian http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/08/23/righting-a-theory-of-computation-wrong/ http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2007/08/23/righting-a-theory-of-computation-wrong/feed/ 4