OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Are the Non-Religious Under-Represented by Australian PMs?

A brief study in which I compare the professed religion of Australian Prime Ministers to the professed religion of Australians over the past 50 years.

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Coming out from the cold-reading

“That’s so true!” she interjected, while I started kicking myself for my own stupidity. How did I let myself get in this awkward situation again?

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Categories: Based On A True Story

Windows look-and-feel for SSH and DOS command lines

Here are the specs for a great weekend project that I don’t have time for, that would improve my cross-development productivity.

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Outage Ongoing

DDOS attacks continue to affect up-time and apology quality.

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Categories: About OddThinking

Charmap of the Future

{To Do: Create a pithy excerpt that makes this article about foreign characters compelling to read.}

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Outage

Outage is over. Back on your heads.

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Categories: About OddThinking

Python Consumer Thread Shutdown Design Notes

In which Julian fails to persuade Python to perform a simple task: stopping.

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Categories: S/W Dev

Python Message-Buffering Logging Handler Design Notes

In which Julian rubber-ducks a design for a Python Logging Handler, to overcome earlier email jams.

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Categories: S/W Dev

How Python’s urllib2 Bit Me

In which Julian proposes a hypothetical – how could the default parameters on urllib2 bring down an application 29 minutes past midnight on a Saturday morning?

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How Python Logging Bit Me, Part 1.

In which Julian stumbles over a serious gotcha in Python’s SMTPHandler for logging messages.

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Categories: Heroic Failures,Insufficiently Advanced Technology,S/W Dev
Tags: logging. gotcha, Python, SMTPHandler, software