OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

On Travel Agents

Realising I had been procrastinating about booking some flights and accommodation, today I went to a travel agent and got it done.

A travel agent. Bricks and mortar.

Odd.

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SoIP QoS

One day I was thinking about the tradition of April Fools’ Day RFC Submissions and thought it would be fun to do a similar parody, but based on the Patent Submission form.

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Unit-tests considered…

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

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How Python Logging Bit Me, Part 1.

In which Julian stumbles over a serious gotcha in Python’s SMTPHandler for logging messages.

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Categories: Heroic Failures,Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: logging. gotcha, Python, SMTPHandler, software

Hello, Operator? Do You Have a Crossed Line?

Do we really need to operate?

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How I Lied to an Innocent Child

Dear T-,

Thank you for your postcard. It was very nice to read it.

On Saturday, I helped to make a movie about monsters.

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I Can’t See You, CUA

I have wanted to complete my migration from CUA to Bendigo Bank for some time. In fact, it was two-and-a-half years ago that I complained that my local Credit Union Australia (CUA) branch had closed, and that I was assessing Bendigo Bank as a replacement. To close my CUA account, I think I have to […]

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Escape from the Devil’s Doom

In which the author reveals his age, and reviews an old electronic game.

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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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Worst. Psychic. Ever.

My psychic connection was almost spot on… and yet my psychic senses detect that some people are skeptical of my skills… they are thinking… wait, the message is coming through: WORST… PSYCHIC… EVER!

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