OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

Passing Challenge

Description of the rules, history and future of the Passing Challenge competition for juggling conventions.

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Categories: Uncategorized

Self-Scaling Log Files

I want an option to scale back logging into log-files over time.

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Python’s doctest considered harmful.

Doctest is a interesting and clever testing harness built right in to Python. Try not to use it.

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Hello, Operator? Do You Have a Crossed Line?

Do we really need to operate?

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Denmark Accord

Mr. World, our teacher, divided our class into groups and gave us a difficult assignment to do. Some project about climate or something. He warned us it was worth a large part of our assessment.

So we all agreed to meet at Denmark’s house (Man, that took a while to organise; most of the term was already done by the time we did.) We started divvying up the work – there was a lot of studying to do – and that’s when the arguments started.

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Blu Tack Shelf-Life and Stickiness

I have some learned some things this week about Blu Tack.

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Happy 500th Post, OddThinking!

This is the 500th post of OddThinking.

Sometimes big numbers like these are difficult to grasp, so I like to put them into perspective.

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On The Marriage Act (1961)

When I say I am against the Australian Government extending the Marriage Act to allow for marriage between same-sex couples, it isn’t for the reasons given by the religious, trying to protect society from what they see as an abomination.

It is because I want the Government to repeal the entire Marriage Act, and get their nose out of things that are none of their affair!

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Half-baked Idea: Salesperson Badges

In which Julian offers a solution to the problem of sales-people, and a profit,

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Categories: Cathartic Rant, Thoughts from the Shower
Tags: shopping million-dollar-idea

Collection Correction

In which Julian tries to choose a data-structure with a low constant time, in a low constant time.

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Categories: Observation, S/W Dev
Tags: software