OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

What does it mean to support our troops?

I have a terrible confession to make, that I fear may ostracize me from polite society. I don’t really understand why we have to support our troops, in particular.

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Categories: Influencing Others
Tags: military, politics

Happy Third Anniversary, OddThinking!

I summarise the third year of operations of OddThinking.

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Robots.txt Boost: Don’t record these URLs

I am in a dilemma about how to tell Google to not index my pages.

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Categories: Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: Google, HTML, robots.txt, search engines, web

Ice-Cream and the Implications of P=NP

I studied cognitive computing at uni. The class was an interesting mix of computing students and cognitive psychology students. The different backgrounds lead to some interesting discussions.

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OddThinking Feeds Made More Obvious

Based on some feedback, I have made the RSS/Atom Feed subscription options more obvious.

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Categories: About OddThinking
Tags: atom, feeds, oddthinking, rss

The Tobermory Fishermen

I met two characters in a little fishing village in Tobermory, Canada. Mal was an old man with one glass eye. Mal’s best friend mate wore thick glasses.

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Why you shouldn’t use Facebook and why you shouldn’t not use Facebook

Dear Non-Facebook User,

If you are going to share with me your reasons for avoiding Facebook, they should at least be sensible ones.

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Clarke References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

D&D References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

What happens in Vegas… can’t always be explained easily

When I returned to Australia after Las Vegas, I gave a couple of very different trip reports.

First, I updated my managers and the rest of my team.

Then, I met with my juggler friends.

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