Year: 2011
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A New Sensation
Dan's phone breaks, and even though the damage is minor and repairable, he gets a new one, simply because (a) he loves to get new geeky toys and (b) he thinks that the Universe talks to him through the medium of technical faults. Here's his review of the HTC Sensation, his new phone.
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Instead Of Blogging...
In a declaration of 'blog bankruptcy', Dan lists all of the topics that he'd hoped to have blogged about during the last (very busy!) month, and gets on with writing about other things. He's been busy!
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Found GL62ZYH3 Cache'n'dash - not on your nelly!!
This checkin to GL62ZYH3 Cache'n'dash - not on your nelly!! reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Out for an quick couple of caches on an evening with fleeblewidget, we found this one without too much difficulty. Wonderful hiding place! TFTC.
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Found GL62ZYEA Colley's Ladder
This checkin to GL62ZYEA Colley's Ladder reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A successful find while out on an evening's expedition with fleeblewidget. Our GPSrs were way off, perhaps because of the trees, and we had to search a large area before we finally found it! TFTC.
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On This Day In 2003
Dan looks back on the very first time he juggled flaming clubs, and wraps this up in the story of how he learned to juggle in the first place.
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www.spielmaterial.de
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: www.spielmaterial.de.
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Halloumi & Mushroom Skewers
After trying them at a barbeque the previous week, Dan raves about halloumi and mushroom skewers, which might well now be his favourite barbeque foodstuff.
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First Class Film
Dan watches X-Men: First Class, and spots his office in the background during a part of the film. No; not the part with the battle between the jetfighter and the levitating submarine.
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Spirit of the Century
Dan and the other Earthlings play "Spirit of the Century", a roleplaying game set in the style of the pulp novels of the early 20th century.
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Hash Abnib
Abnib Chat didn't catch on this time around. Dan is unsurprised, but tries to understand the reasons anyway.
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Fonts of the Ancients
Dan adds UTF-8 support to the CMS that powers the Bodleian Libraries' websites, and ponders how he'd justify the scope of Unicode to a (hypothetical) time-traveling scribe from ancient Egypt.
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Seriously? A Scientologist?
In a surprising twist, Dan turns out to be a Scientologist. No, not really. But in a scary conclusion, the Belief-O-Matic thought that it was a possibility.
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Poly and the Census – Part Four
More fun and games in Zoe's quest to get meaningful information out of the Office of National Statistics, about how census data reflects non-monogamous and non-heteronormative relationships.
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Review of Beat Hazard
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. Beat Hazard Rating: 👍 Man, I play so much of this game. Whether you've got an hour to spare or just three minutes, there's nothing like firing up Beat Hazard and blasting aliens to the sound of your favourite music, turned up nice and …
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My New Pet Hate, part II
Dan shares a screenshot of a screenshot within a screenshot.
I N C E P T I O N.