Month: November 2012
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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.
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It's that time of year again when I like to decorate eggs. Because fuck you, calendar.
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@ajphillips After last week's #Zonomi DDoS, @3RingsLtd started using Route 53 on @AWSCloud as 'extra' DNS servers. Still up: must've worked!
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Craziest Internet Explorer Bug Ever?
Dan discovers a crazy little bug in Internet Explorer 8 and below, and complains loudly about it. Bloody IE.
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On This Day In 1999
In today's On This Day, Dan looks back on bonfire night of 1999, the crushes of his younger years, and the excitement of a rambling adventure!
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A Broken Oath
You wouldn't have thought it possible to incorrectly witness an oath or affirmation, would you? But somehow, a solicitor that Dan paid did exactly that.