OddThinking

I don’t mind the English language evolving; I just wish we could focus our attention…

I don’t have an author photo here for a several reasons.

I identify the need for a new international organisation – one that manages a definitive library of hand signals and the like.

OddThinking suffers from a number of typical blog usability issues. I ponder how important they are, and how hard it is to fix them.

I offer a way of looking at human behaviour, as it is related to taking risks on behalf of other people.

Let me save the next person some trouble: The Python Imaging Library (PIL 1.1.5) does not support writing animated GIFs.

I give a theoretical analysis of the time taken for a pedestrian to negotiate diagonally across an intersection, depending on the cycles of the traffic lights… although my name’s not Bamber.

A theory about long-term relationships

What is it? It’s astounding and will amaze your friends and family!

I am not entirely happy with the choices of categories on OddThinking, which has lead me to ask the obvious question: “What is the problem that that categories are expected to solve?”