OddThinking

I wrote the following short story as an assignment in English class when I was 14 years old.

The law is a not a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting away society’s ills. It’s an axe. So, on the spectrum of morally good, past acceptable and tolerable, politically incorrect, unacceptable through to downright evil, the law can only really pick off acts on the extreme end. There is much that is socially unacceptable and morally wrong [...]

Wishing someone a Happy New Year may subject you to a Denial-of-Service Attack

I predict no end to the End-Of-The-World references.

I ran a Monte Carlo simulation to test whether occasional attendees have a rosier view of attendance levels than the regulars.

Voice recognition works particularly well when the computer knows what you are trying to say, and just needs to track along with you. Which leads to an idea for a plug-in for commenters – not for this web-site, but for some others that I frequent. You can tell this idea is half-arsed, as I haven’t [...]

I have been listening to organisations demanding that we defend our human right to die with dignity.

I find myself unable to support them.

Some Unicode characters are just calling for a caption competition. Ṏ “Latin capital letter o with tilde and diaeresis”? Is that the best you can do, Unicode Consortium?

Without performing any research, I solve a problem facing artists, for a cut.

I have decided to abandon screen, and am returning to having to re-login each day.

I am filing this under “I am doing Linux wrong, but I don’t know where.”