OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Journal of Experimental Cooking

I was thinking today, as I chopped some vegetables. Follow my train of thought, from the mundane to the inspired.

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Categories: Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: cooking

Is the Compiler a Distraction?

Is the real problem with compilers (and web-development and unit-tests) that they force a context-switch in the middle of the development process?

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Categories: Observation,S/W Dev,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: brain, distractions, productivity, software, unit tests

My Zombie Plan Plan

When I become President of Australia, it will not be illegal to publish your Zombie Plan, your Velociraptor Plan, your Time-traveller-stranded-in-the-past plan or your Last-person-alive-on-Earth plan.

However…

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If wishes were elephants…

I wish I had enough money to buy an elephant…

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Captured!

One of those stupid ideas that prevents you from getting real work done until it is implemented…

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Self-Scaling Log Files

I want an option to scale back logging into log-files over time.

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Denmark Accord

Mr. World, our teacher, divided our class into groups and gave us a difficult assignment to do. Some project about climate or something. He warned us it was worth a large part of our assessment.

So we all agreed to meet at Denmark’s house (Man, that took a while to organise; most of the term was already done by the time we did.) We started divvying up the work – there was a lot of studying to do – and that’s when the arguments started.

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On The Marriage Act (1961)

When I say I am against the Australian Government extending the Marriage Act to allow for marriage between same-sex couples, it isn’t for the reasons given by the religious, trying to protect society from what they see as an abomination.

It is because I want the Government to repeal the entire Marriage Act, and get their nose out of things that are none of their affair!

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Half-baked Idea: Salesperson Badges

In which Julian offers a solution to the problem of sales-people, and a profit,

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Categories: Cathartic Rant,Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: shopping million-dollar-idea

EmailMeNot

There is a constant tension between the web-site owners who want to harvest your email address for marketing and the web-users who want to access content without the bother.

As someone who fast-forwards through the adverts when watching recorded television, you can guess where I stand on this.

I propose a new service, EmailMeNot.

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