Month: October 2011
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Zip-A-De-Do-Car, Zip-A-De-Day
For the last few months, Dan's been a member of Streetcar (now part of Zipcar), an on-demand car club, primarily as a means of getting to and from his course at Aylesbury College. Here are his thoughts on his experience, for your enjoyment.
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I have multiple GMail accounts. I'd like to see a different notification icon for each. Any suggestions?
The first of the two apps mentioned in this article - "Gmail Notifier" - sounds perfect, but doesn't seem to exist any more.
GMail Notifier + Widgets looks like it might do it (it's designed to do different icons depending on labels). Does anybody have any experience with this?
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Last year I bought a ton of Left 4 Dead 2 copies...
...for several of my friends. They all got redeemed, apart from one. I keep reminding the guy, but he never gets around to redeeming it, so I reckon he doesn't want it.
So: if you want it, it's yours. Just PM me your Steam username.
Gone! To Swiisha.
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Poly and the Census - Success! (almost)
After much to-ing and fro-ing, the Freedom of Information Act request that a fellow blogger made to the Office of National Statistics, on the subject of households with individuals in non-monogamous relationships or with non-binary genders, has begun to yield results. Dan comments on the findings.
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The Play
Dan posts a short review and recommendation of "The Play", a piece of hypertext interactive fiction entered into IFComp 2011.
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Hug An Asexual
Go hug an asexual. That's Dan's message for you today, on Asexual Awareness Week. Or, if you can't manage that, he's got an even more fun mission for you.
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Back To School
Next week is half-term. Why does that matter? Because for the first time in almost ten years, Dan is back in education and studying towards a Certificate in Counselling at Aylesbury College.
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My favourite supplier of reasonably-priced board game design components (Europe)
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Wanted
Ah, Oxford. You are so eccentric. Dan shares a photograph he took.
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Meat To Please You
Dan asks vegetarians, "What's with the fake meat?", while musing on what unicorn might tastes like.
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On This Day In 1999
It's 12 years to the day since Dan first downloaded a copy of The Matrix, whose massive 1.4GB bulk ate up virtually all of his spare hard drive space. How quickly these things become obsolete.
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Homer Simpson Explains Minecraft in 10 Seconds