OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

T-shirts, Quilts and Stools: Why I haven’t posted much.

I talk about why I have been quiet on the blog, what I have been up to, and foreshadow a couple of ideas which might turn into articles in the future.

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Free Beer from Google = Brewgle?

In which Julian offers free* beer at the first OddThinking Meet Up in Sydney, sponsored by our good friends at Google.

* That’s not free as in freedom, it is free as in beer!

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Categories: About OddThinking
Tags: advertising, alcohol, Google, meet, oddthinking

OddThinking Feed Problems

OddThinking is apparently suffering from a bug in WordPress.

If you can’t see this post, then you may have the problem it is talking about.

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Julian’s Job Status FAQ

I’ve got some big news.

I have left my job, and I am not looking for another one…

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Happy Third Anniversary, OddThinking!

I summarise the third year of operations of OddThinking.

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OddThinking Feeds Made More Obvious

Based on some feedback, I have made the RSS/Atom Feed subscription options more obvious.

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Categories: About OddThinking
Tags: atom, feeds, oddthinking, rss

Trackback tricks

I’ve been losing a few skirmishes against Trackback spam recently. More than a few, I guess; they are hammering the site.

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Common Phrase Experiment

Did you ever notice that some people (all people?) have certain phrases that they use a disproportionately high percentage of the time?

You may find in infuriating or endearing – probably depending on what you think of the person anyway.

I was wondering what my commonly-repeated phrases might be.

Then I realised I had a large corpus of my writing on this blog, and I may be able to do an experiment to find out.

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EmailShroud 2.2 is now available

With XHTML validity, new JavaScript, better caching and the first new palindromic version number since 1.0.1.

Click on the EmailShroud 2.2 link on the menu on the left, or go the long way round.

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EmailShroud 2.2 Beta Testing

I am “eating my own dog-food” by testing Emailshroud 2.2, live on OddThinking.

If you notice any problems you can email me at emailshroud.

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