Year: 2010
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Right Feature, Wrong Project
Since I've been working from home, things with my "day job" at SmartData have ticked along pretty much the same as they ever did before. But once in a while, something goes wrong. Like this.
I checked my instant messenger, and saw a bit of text from my boss, Simon:
also, have you implemenmted a … -
Troma Night Adventure
Because I promised you some Aber-nostalgia.
Do you remember the RockMonkey Wiki? Many years ago, Ruth bought the domain name rockmonkey.org.uk as a gift for Andy K, who'd been nicknamed "Rock Monkey" for longer than anybody could remember. He decided that what he wanted to host there was a wiki engine, and I helped him get … -
Nostalgia And The Aber Effect, According To Other People
Strokey Adam just realised, in only his fifth blog post in the last 12 months, that it's now ten years since he first moved to Aberystwyth. I remember when I came to the same point, last year, and sent a scary e-mail to the new student who adopted my University username. In Adam's blog post, …
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Facebook Annoyance Of The Day
(rambling, ranty; I saw something on Facebook that pissed me off, and ended up ranting about the whole social media scene - no offence meant, and I've deliberately picked no examples from anybody I know or care about)
It's not as bad as setting up a Facebook group to recover your friends' mobile numbers after losing … -
Murder At The Magic College
A week last Sunday - just a couple of day's after Paul's arrival - Earth hosted a housewarming event combined with our latest Murder Mystery, Murder at the Magic College. While we've had our fair share of Murder Mystery Nights before, this is only the third one I'd authored (after Murder in the Reign of …
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Of System Tray Icons
What the fuck is that icon for? Despite the best efforts of icon designer to (apparently) make clear and comprehensible icons, and by computer users to learn and understand them, I still remain perplexed from time to time by the plethora of icons in my system tray (sorry, I mean Taskbar Notification Area). Let's take …
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Posted a note for GC23P6J Badge Cache Capel Madog
This checkin to GC23P6J Badge Cache Capel Madog reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Glad to hear you found it, cardi88, and that it's still there (after getting a series of DNFs, I was worried it might have been plundered!). Maybe I should step the difficulty up by a half-star.
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On This Day In 2003
Looking Back
On this day in 2003 I wrote a short blog post about a very important event in the lives of two of my friends. This was the end of the week during which Fiona came down to visit us in Aberystwyth: the week where she first met Kit in person. And the week where … -
BiCon: The Game
I shan't be at BiCon this year, but I thought I'd share with you all something that tickled me today. Last year, at a Naked Lunch, I ended up chatting to several geeks about Interactive Fiction, and I through out a few ideas for a BiCon-themed piece of Interactive Fiction. Little did I know that …
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Women in Movies
Spoiler alert: this blog post contains significant spoilers about WALL-E, and contains minor spoilers about Salt (although these shouldn't be spoilers to anybody who's ever seen an action film before).
The Bechdel Test
I've talked to some of you already about my thoughts on the Bechdel Test, which aims to illustrate the under-representation of women in contemporary … -
Amateur Lesbians
I've recently reformatted and reinstalled, and that means that - briefly - I ended up seeing advertisements on the Internet again, until I had my ad-blocker reinstalled. And so I came to see an advertisement that promised to let me see "amateur lesbians".
Now you and I both know perfectly well what they mean, but I've … -
Working From Home
The phone rings. It's clear to me by the sound it makes and by the image on it's display that this is a business call.
"Good morning, SmartData; Dan speaking," I say.
The caller identifies themselves, and asks to speak to Alex, another SmartData employee. I look to my right to see if Alex is available (presumably … -
The Game Disbalancer
Coming to an Arkham Horror game near you... never.
Click for large-o-vision. You know, I think that having this guy on the team might just make the game winnable. Maybe. -
Vulva
Just when I think that I've gotten the hang of humans, they do something even stranger than ever before.
There's a new fragrance for men that's about to be hitting perfume counters around Europe: Vulva Original [NSFW]. Just... click the link, and watch the video that appears. Your first thought will almost certainly be: "They're selling … -
The Best Mouse In The World
This was one of my most-popular articles in 2010. It continues to be popular in Spain (¡Hola! Mucho gusto). If you enjoyed it, you might also enjoy:
Why I believe that it's wrong to lie to children about Santa (2009).
The Ten Weirdest Sex Toys I've ever seen (2009)!
A dirty-looking calendar I found at …