Year: 2011
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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
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QR Codes of the Bodleian
For the Bodleian Libraries' latest exhibition, Treasures of the Bodleian, Dan's produced some unusual QR codes to sit alongside the exhibits.
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The Queen's Passport
Inside the front cover of Dan's passport is a note from the Queen, demanding that he be allowed to travel freely in her name. But what's written inside the Queen's passport? And where do these little booklets come from to begin with?
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Ouch
For a few months now, Dan's been suffering from what his doctor is diagnosing this week as cluster headaches. Whether or not she's right, it's certainly pretty shit.
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A Vintage Murder
Dan reviews the Earthlings' last Murder Mystery Night, a quiet affair entitled A Vintage Murder.
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PromisQity
Dan discovers a vinyard whose name makes it sound like it was something he came up with.