OddThinking

I have a great idea for another plugin for WordPress

It detects when people are redirected from Reddit.

Inspired by a post there, I wrote a simple web-crawler that looked at the age, membership length and reputation of the users of StackOverflow.

I describe the method below, for people who like hearing about software. I graph the results below for people who like looking at colourful graphs. At the bottom, I have a quick conclusion for people who just want the summary.

Have you ever considered the strengths and weaknesses of the people you know?

The sign at the butchery advertised “Butterflyed Chicken”.

If you value your sense of humour, or if you value mine, you won’t read this post. It doesn’t end well.

In which Julian grumbles pointlessly about a couple of word puzzles and a kid’s poem, and then is reminded of a better example of a word puzzle, discovers something interesting about a puzzle’s origin, and goes off a little happier.

I have broken the law five times. What I did is a secret.

What is the best cleaning solution for glass in my bathroom? No, seriously!

I take a science geek view.

One of the downsides of not having an salary is that my high-tech gadget purchases have to be heavily curtailed. That doesn’t mean I have to give up on gadget reviews entirely… I just need to adjust my expectations. One of the errands I ran the other day was to visit the company that was […]

I had never played Unicycling Limbo before. I had never seen it played. I had never heard of it being played. It was, however, the perfect game for the occasion.