OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Sat Nav Lust

My sense of direction is all but non-existent, so I have wanted a working Satellite Navigation system for my car for years.

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Nice Guy in a Photo Finish

I take lots of photos of friends, and I publish the results for free on web-sites. It’s a lot of work, but I am a nice guy.

This week, two discoveries changed that.

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Open Letter: Developers of my Next Email Client

Dear developers of my next email client,

Let me tell you about all the names of my friend.

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Candidates for the UI Disaster Museum

In which Julian whinges about two embedded user-interfaces, mainly because he has photos.

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Vinaigrettes… I’ve had a few…

Julian makes a pointless pointed comment about the food served in typical US restaurants.

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Thanks GIO!

Thanks GIO Insurance for ringing me today. You saved me a lot of money!

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PyGame-Over?

A very brief examination of the PyGame 1.8 car-wreck.

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Categories: S/W Dev
Tags: Python, review, whinge

Subtle Flag Waving

There are lots of major issues with Internet Explorer that I wish they would fix. Here is a really, really minor one that annoys me again and again.

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Categories: Insufficiently Advanced Technology
Tags: internet explorer, UI, usability, whinge

Chess Software Blues

There’s somethink about chess computers…

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Get a Sudo-Clue!

Examines the logic of other Sudoku-consumers.

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