OddThinking

Over the past 12 months, I have been getting more and more frustrated at how slow my machine sometimes gets. It has taken me a while to pin-point what my objection is.

Today I found the words.

I am as mad as hell about having a machine using only 10% CPU and 10% RAM being too busy to refresh its windows, and I’m not going to take it any more!

In which I continue to bitch about the Samsung D600 – but particularly about the PC calendar synching software that is bundled with it.

Data point for the spam-trackers: There has been a big hike in detected spam comments recently over the past couple of weeks.

Short excerpt from a conversation with a pregnant friend.

(Hey, other bloggers can put conversation excerpts in their blogs, so why can’t I?)

I am scared of people who wear clown noses.

Please understand why I would rather just give a donation than buy a nose on Red Nose Day. It is in support of a worthy charity, but leaves me shuddering slightly all day.

I am working on a new lossy compression system for photos that takes advantage of a key fact about babies.

No matter how morally you behave in life, a significant population think you are going to Hell. However, I realised there was a way of turning this depressing thought into an opportunity.

An essential guide to getting through your email faster.

In which I discover that this sentence fragment is the most important part of the article, and other surprises.

Today is the 20th anniversary of my first email.