OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Online Photo DB: Back in the Saddle

Excuses about why I missed my self-imposed deadline for having a new photo database site up and running.

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Brewgle availability?

How do people feel about receiving free beer on April 9, 2009, the Thursday night before the long weekend? What should I wear to the occasion?

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Categories: About OddThinking

Progressive JPEG Stunt

A half-baked idea on how to make a web-site appear to be downloading a NSFW image, but at the last minute it turns into a child-friendly picture of a pony galloping across a rainbow.

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No Globes

It looks like a traditional toy – a touristy tchotchke from a European holiday, but it isn’t what you expect.

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A new owner’s review of the Canon EOS 50D

I recently purchased a Canon EOS 50D. Here is a personal review that talks about the stuff that doesn’t appear in the adverts.

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Specs for my new PC

After talking about it for a long time, I upgraded my computer in January.

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BBS Nicknames

One day, Bream LeFish added an evil new feature to his BBS, and then sat back and watched the fun.

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Architecture of the Samsung D600 Synch code

This post describes the internals of my D600 synch application.

I start with a reveal of the how the trick works, for those readers who just want to see how such a miraculous thing could be possible.

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Categories: S/W Dev
Tags: D600, software architecture

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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Data entry? Here’s what I think of Data entry!

The most challenging part of the data-entry was keeping focussed on such a tedious task. Allow me to illustrate how desperate I got.

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