OddThinking

Check out my interview with Lil Tulloch about Food For Thought

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.

What my current project has taught me about refactoring:

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

A brief study in which I compare the professed religion of Australian Prime Ministers to the professed religion of Australians over the past 50 years.

{To Do: Create a pithy excerpt that makes this article about foreign characters compelling to read.}

Aren’t you bored of all these articles in the blogosphere, yammering about the finer points of spatula manufacture? Here’s yet another one jumping on the bandwagon. Sigh.

Is the real problem with compilers (and web-development and unit-tests) that they force a context-switch in the middle of the development process?

I believe allowing passengers to check-in before arriving at the airport hinders the airlines in their predictions of how many people will board. I don’t understand why airlines are allowing it.

When I become President of Australia, it will not be illegal to publish your Zombie Plan, your Velociraptor Plan, your Time-traveller-stranded-in-the-past plan or your Last-person-alive-on-Earth plan.

However…