OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

OTTF Solver

OTTF (short for One Two Three Four) is a simple single-person puzzle game.

I re-use my Game Framework to solve it.

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Separation of Church and Postage

Why is it cheaper to send a Christmas card?

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Categories: Observation
Tags: Australia Post, Australian culture, Christmas, economics, scrooge

Undirected Directory Delivery

This year, the Yellow Pages came with a bonus – more Yellow Pages.

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Categories: Cathartic Rant
Tags: rant, telephony

My computer has died.

The title says it all.

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Flash Primitives

I used to have this theory about Adobe Flash programming, even though I have never done any.

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Categories: Observation,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: actionscript, games, programming, web

HAL BBS Backdoors

There was a rumour out on the web out there that HAL BBS wasn’t to be trusted – it had two backdoors built into the software. It was compiled BASIC, so it wasn’t easy to view the source, but I had a bash at finding those backdoors.

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Categories: Based On A True Story,Doubleplus Geek
Tags: bbs, commodore 64, hacking, security

Online Photo DB: Stage 5 – First Hurdle with SmugMug

I wrongly came to a tentative paranoid conclusion about SmugMug.

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Categories: Geek
Tags: networks, online photo database, smugmug, web

Online Photo DB: Stage 5 – First Cut

I sifted through the 19 evaluation I have done, culling out the no-hopers, with aim of whittling it to three or four.

After one pass, I have it down to five, which is close.

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Online Photo DB: Stage 4t – Evaluation of Acquia Drupal

Online Photo DB: Drupal mini-evaluation

Evaluating Drupal‘s readiness to become the CMS behind an online photo database is not a trivial task.

Here’s how I out-sourced part of the job.

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