Year: 2012
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RT @misterjta Dear 2012, Fuck off. Sincerely, JTA.
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Owl spreading its wings [x-post from /r/pics]
AltOwl spreading its wings.
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Phone Security == Computer Security
Dan gets paranoid and despairs about the ease with which mobile devices can be stolen, the wealth of personal information stored on them, and the under-use of readily-available encryption tools.
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TIL that the Malaysian government is one of few who HAVEN'T asked Google to censor satellite photos of sensitive areas, because they feel that to do so would make it MORE obvious where the sensitive areas are!
MALAYSIA will not ask Google Earth to blur images of the country’s military facilities to avoid terrorist attacks. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said doing so would indirectly pin-point their location anyway.
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The Snip, Part 2
Dan is rendered sterile, and takes a picture of the removed parts of his vas deferens to share with you, along with his write-up of the entire procedure. Aren't you lucky.
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Oxford Under Water
Parts of Oxford have flooded, making it difficult for Dan to cycle to work. Difficult... but not impossible! Wellies on, Dan sets out into the disaster zone.
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Network Rail engineers near Redbridge Park & Ride sit in their van as it sinks into a field. I feel really sorry for them!
AltNetwork Rail engineers sinking into a flooded field
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Doing my bit. Now if only I could persuade a few billion other men to do the same.
No children. My vasectomy's next week. Took a little persuasion to get my doctor to sign off on the operation, but got there in the end.
My story (in a self-post because I don't want to look like I'm reaping karma for doing something that billions of men should consider).
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11 years, 11 days.
The escape is imminent. I am leaving Aberystwyth (with Jim soon to join me) for Gloucestershire. I am greatly looking forward to several things: Access to proper shopping More live music More comedy Multiscreen cinemas! Having disposable income Being nearer to some of my closest friends There are, of course, things that I’ll miss: The…
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The Snip, Part 1
It's been a long time coming, but next week, after years of promising, Dan is finally going to put his genitals where his mouth is and get himself a vasectomy. Here's why...
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TIL that minutes before the Halifax Explosion (the largest ever non-nuclear, man-made explosion), a dispatcher named Vince Coleman returned to his station to send a warning telegram, saving 300 lives at the cost of his own.
Patrick Vincent Coleman
Patrick Vincent Coleman (13 March 1872 – 6 December 1917) was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways (formerly the ICR, Intercolonial Railway of Canada) who was killed in the Halifax Explosion, but not before he sent a message to an incoming passenger train to stop out of range of the explosion. Today … -
Days Like Weeks
Dan keeps himself busy with the latest Three Rings release, the Three Rings 10th Birthday Conference, a counselling exam, and the UK Bus Awards. Phew!
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Long tongue! [x-post /r/funny]
AltLong-tongued cow.
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Conference Preparations
Dan is swamped with Three Rings work: even though he's finished working on Milestone: Jethrik, he's being kept busy with preparing for this weekend's Three Rings Conference.
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Maybe I'm just being a whole-wit, but I don't understand this Double Earth thing. ELI10.