OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Synching my Samsung D600

This month, after another frustrating synching experience with Samsung PC Studio, I decided to write my own D600 phone interfacing software.

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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

Online Photo DB: Stage 4o – Evaluation of Picasa Web

Facial Fatigue

Here’s a little anatomy practical you can try at home.

Relax your face, and then calmly say the words “Double-you Tee Eff” out aloud. Note which muscles are used.

Now, repeat the experiment, but this time say the words “What the fuck?” out aloud.

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DVDs Are Forever?

M looks grim, in his wood-panelled London office. “Bond, this is serious. SPECTRE have one of our key scientists kidnapped. They want ten of our secret programs mailed to them from around the world. For each program that fails to arrive, they will chop off one of his fingers, before he is released. He needs […]

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Stockmarket Stock Phrase

A quick whinge about the expression “Throughout history, there has never been a downturn which the market hasn’t recovered from,” while I procrastinate from reading more financial news.

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Categories: Cathartic Rant,Observation
Tags: finance, logic

MP3 Mime Type

Dear Web Server Owners

Your MP3 files should have an MIME type of audio/mpeg.

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Some thinking is more smokey than others.

Smokey Robinson made a throw-away comment that has been bugging me.

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Mops versus Height

Why the hell won’t anyone sell me a damn mop with a handle that comes up past nipple height?

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Web Security and ING Direct

Someone is being a fool and not understanding some of the basics of computer security. That person is either (a) the head of security at ING Direct or (b) it is me.

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