OddThinking

Dear T-,

Thank you for your postcard. It was very nice to read it.

On Saturday, I helped to make a movie about monsters.

I unnecessarily answer the ambiguity issue in the Circuit Puzzle, in living colour.

Another puzzle solved with the same architecture as before, but this time, with added code re-use.

I have wanted to complete my migration from CUA to Bendigo Bank for some time. In fact, it was two-and-a-half years ago that I complained that my local Credit Union Australia (CUA) branch had closed, and that I was assessing Bendigo Bank as a replacement. To close my CUA account, I think I have to […]

In this article, I introduce another puzzle game, talk about some variations that are possible, provide a glossary (and then fail to use it, for now), discuss how the puzzle is solved, and then promise more in a future article.

I have a Object-Orientation question, related to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern. I suspect it will have a simple “here is the idiom everyone uses for this situation” type answer, but I haven’t found it. Here’s a fictional piece of software that demonstrates my problem.

I talk about why I have been quiet on the blog, what I have been up to, and foreshadow a couple of ideas which might turn into articles in the future.

So, I have lots of photos, and some are duplicated on several web-sites, with no reference to the original source. I want to detect matches, so I can move them (and their associated meta-data) all to a single yet-to-be-determined destination.

But here’s the snag. Some of the photos have been made into different sizes and qualities for web-viewing. It would save me time if I could automatically detect this. I need an equivalent to SoundEx that works on images, so images have the same hash even if they are resized.

How would you do that? If you answered “Google it, and find what the standard solution is”, you might be smarter than me. This article is about what I did instead.

In which Julian stumbles over the concept of Chemical Word Ladders, and proceeds to generate them.

Which requirements does SmugMug meet?