Recent articles
Get Lost on the Web
Dan looks at phallic buildings, researches baby monitors, and gets nostalgic for the diverse Web of yesteryear.
Quickly Solving Jigidi Puzzles
Forced with a digital jigsaw puzzle to unlock the location of a geocache... Dan resorts to hacking.
Heatmapping my Movements
Leveraging a decade of past GPS data, Dan draws heatmaps of his movements around Oxfordshire.
Holidays in the Age of COVID
Dan takes a three-week block off work and does many, many things with his family.
Lichfield
Dan, Ruth, JTA and the kids go to Lichfield and it's great, perhaps mostly because they never get to go…
Higher/Lower Datepicker
Can Dan make an even-worse "date of birth" field than those spinner ones?
About
Dan Q’s been blogging since the 1990s, mostly about his life, technology, programming, relationships, hacking, and games.
He lives in Oxford, UK with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous V-shaped thingy, and their two children. Until he finds something that rhymes better, he describes himself as a magician Automattician on a geoposition-mission.
On this day in 2003...
It’s Over
Tomorrow's the first day of the Fresher's Fayre, and Dan can't sleep.
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