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		<title>Analysis of Captive Queens</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2013/05/30/analysis-of-captive-queens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 02:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puzzle Solving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I introduce the game of Captive Queens, explain the rules, analyse the tactics and determine the chance of winning.
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		<title>Security Notice: Chasey It Selection Protocol</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2013/04/20/1750/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geek]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Insufficiently Advanced Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts from the Shower]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To decide who is "it" (or "in") first, in a playground game, such as chasey (a.k.a. tag), a fixed algorithmic process is used to make a pseudo-random choice.


Of course, this is a deterministic procedure, and we can, with diligence, careful calculation, computational power and just a little bit of luck, reverse engineer the algorithm and determine who will be eventually selected.
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		<title>Progress Bar Component</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2013/03/21/progress-bar-component/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=1717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Progress Bars haven't progressed much for over a decade.

Let me tell about the Progress Bar component that I will definitely one day develop, with the one proviso: I will probably never develop it.
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		<title>Pseudo-Reduplication in Australian Place Names</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2013/02/12/pseudo-reduplication-in-australian-place-names/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2013/02/12/pseudo-reduplication-in-australian-place-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Based On A True Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puzzle Solving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts from the Shower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How many Australian locations have repeated names, like Wagga Wagga, Woy Woy and Curl Curl?]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Pattern: Let the Users Configure the Business Rules</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/11/08/anti-pattern-let-the-users-configure-the-business-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/11/08/anti-pattern-let-the-users-configure-the-business-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insufficiently Advanced Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S/W Dev]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=1690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a software analysis <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern">anti-pattern</a> I have seen many times in my career. It is popping up in my current project, and I am trying to work out how to subvert it early.]]></description>
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		<title>Most Anagrammatical Words</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/09/23/most-anagrammatical-words/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/09/23/most-anagrammatical-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puzzle Solving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughts from the Shower]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=1679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["But, Julian," I hear you ask, "What words in the English language have the most anagrams?"]]></description>
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		<title>Doing What You Can</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/09/03/doing-what-you-can/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/09/03/doing-what-you-can/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 04:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Based On A True Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A random memory from when I was a kid on holidays in Murray Bridge just occurred to me. I was listening to a local radio station that was running a promotion with a baby food manufacturer. They called their listeners at random, and if they could read off the serial number from a can of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Python Main area should be small</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/07/29/why-the-python-main-area-should-be-small/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[S/W Dev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I am justifying a particular personal coding standard rule. If I explicitly argue the case, I hope I will conform to it more.]]></description>
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		<title>Deaths from Almond to Zaffre</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/07/28/deaths-from-almond-to-zaffre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/07/28/deaths-from-almond-to-zaffre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2012 05:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=1658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend referred to sugar as &#8220;the white death&#8221;. That made me wonder what other colours there were. Here is the resulting reference chart. Where there were choices to make, I made them. Colour Death Black Bubonic Plague White Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper,White Sugar Red Cocktail Orange This spot available. Yellow Macaroni and Cheese (unreliable) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting My Internet Shitfight Priorities Straight</title>
		<link>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/07/03/getting-my-internet-shitfight-priorities-straight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2012/07/03/getting-my-internet-shitfight-priorities-straight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 02:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts from the Shower]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have an hope for a resolution in the Oatmeal versus FunnyJunk and/or Carreon case that probably reveals something about me.]]></description>
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