OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Morality and Hedge-Trimmers

The law is a not a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting away society’s ills. It’s an axe. So, on the spectrum of morally good, past acceptable and tolerable, politically incorrect, unacceptable through to downright evil, the law can only really pick off acts on the extreme end. There is much that is socially unacceptable and morally wrong […]

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World Homeopathy Awareness Week

I am told it is World Homeopathy Awareness Week.

I can get behind that.

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Of all the various conflicting ideas that people believe, homeopathy is special, in that it is completely and throughly understood by science, by logic and reason, to be totally and utterly wrong.

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Shopping, Pegging and Squirting

Julian explains why is is a grumpy curmudgeon who hates water-pistols and other forms of fun.

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Ethics of Piracy

In which Julian wades in on the conservative side of the piracy debate.

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Categories: Influencing Others

Lamport on Buridan’s Principle

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.

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Lessons about Refactoring

What my current project has taught me about refactoring:

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The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life

The Copenhagen Declaration on Religion in Public Life; is this an pro-atheist or pro-libertarian democracy manifesto?

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Courier versus Australia Post – Reliability Review

Should you use Australia Post or a courier for reliable delivery of valuable documents?

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Denmark Accord

Mr. World, our teacher, divided our class into groups and gave us a difficult assignment to do. Some project about climate or something. He warned us it was worth a large part of our assessment.

So we all agreed to meet at Denmark’s house (Man, that took a while to organise; most of the term was already done by the time we did.) We started divvying up the work – there was a lot of studying to do – and that’s when the arguments started.

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Blu Tack Shelf-Life and Stickiness

I have some learned some things this week about Blu Tack.

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