Understanding NothingAll these years of thinking ended up like thisOpen as in Opendom- February 9, 2008 Working, as I am, on a spreadsheet application, I often refer to the Open Formula specification which does a fairly good job of providing useful edge-case tests, and noting inconsistencies between the implementation of various functions across Excel, Gnumeric, Open Office, etc. Recently I noticed that one of their test cases seemed to have a spurious ...http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2620 Dogs Kill Kiwi- February 7, 2008 Sometimes a sign is just so fantastic that, despite my inability to take photos whilst driving, I just have to stop and reverse or drive around the block again, or whatever, just to get a shot. This one just confused me on so many levels I couldn&8217;t ignore it. At a purely grammatical level I ...http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2619 Come and Taste Te Puke- February 4, 2008 I need to find a way to take photographs of road signs whilst randomly driving around the countryside. Were I to have such a skill today&8217;s entry would be a photoblog of all the great signs I saw in and around Te Puke. Instead I&8217;ll have to photoblog without photos instead. URLs for other people&8217;s pictures ...http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2618 Two nations divided- February 1, 2008 Usually when someone makes reference to the &8220;two nations divided by a common language&8221; they mean the UK and US. They could, however, just as easily substitute NZ. Dunedin is simultaneously familiar and yet strangely foreign. A significant proportion of streets, districts, parks, shops, etc are named after places in Edinburgh, which is, after all, the ...http://nothing.tmtm.com/archives/2617 |