OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Cold Reading

I once found myself performing a cold-reading. It was an interesting experience, but I was left feeling uncomfortable.

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Tom’s iPod

I found an iPod Shuffle last weekend. Just laying on the grass. Cool.

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Choosing Timezones

All timezone applications require you to specify what city you are in. I’ve never understood why you select the city rather than the state, province or country.

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Memo to Airline Passengers

To: All of the airline passengers of the world.
Re: Baggage Collection, Process Clarification

Dear Fellow Passenger,

The following instruction is simple, and should be carried out with immediate effect.

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Can You Undo Laughter?

Help me solve a dilemma that has nagged me for many years.

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Happy Birthday OddThinking

On April 10, OddThinking celebrates its first anniversary.

Girtby.net’s first anniversary was celebrated with a retrospective of the year, and I found that to be quite fun, so I pay homage to that format here.

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A New Owner’s Review of the Samsung D600 mobile phone

A review of the Samsung D600 that focuses on things that Samsung doesn’t tell you.

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Settling Up the Tabs

Both the Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 developers gave some thought to people like me. They realised their weird hybrids were going to confuse me, and they warn me that I am being stupid…

Thanks very much for the thought, guys… but….

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WordPress Versus Outlook: A Step Forward

When read in Outlook, emails sent from WordPress are formatted poorly. I finally have a hypothesis to explain this behaviour.

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A Snowball’s Chance of Beating Spam

Subscribers to my RSS comments feed may have noticed a recent increase in the number of “obvious” spams getting through.

The good news is I reported it to the author of SpamKarma. He has a solution in mind, and hopes to implement it very shortly.

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