Year: 2012
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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.
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2 of 4 @rimuhosting #zonomi DNS servers back online (ns2 & ns3). Meanwhile, I'm setting up a manual slave system on @awscloud Route 53.
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STD Cupcakes: diagnose yourself while you eat!
AltSTD cupcakes
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Rave Reviews for Your Password Sucks
After running a breakout session entitled "Your password: how bad guys will steal your identity" at the 2012 UAS Conference, Dan gets rave reviews. Nice.
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A Three-Sentence Review Of Looper
A three-sentence review of Looper, the second-best of the three films in which Bruce Willis travels back in time and encounters a younger version of himself.
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Lucy's Birthday
Dan's ended up really busy again, but he's found time to share a bug in a development version of Three Rings with you.
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Review of FTL: Faster Than Light
This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. FTL: Faster Than Light Rating: 👍 This game is just pure fun. It's not easy, and there's a lot of learning to be done, but it sort-of reminds me of playing NetHack for the first time, if NetHack were set in the Battlestar Galactica …
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Three Films I'd Watch (if anybody made them)
Dan pitches three movie ideas: "Knights of the Living Dead" (a twisted form of the Arthurian legends, with zombies), "My Daughter's Hand" (a story of love, homophobia, and family), and "The Bone Wars" (a dramatisation of the real-life rivalry of two of the Victorian era's most-famous palaeontologists).
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Suppose you have a time machine that can only jump to leap days. What's the chance that a random jump will put you on a Monday? [Maths]
Here’s a puzzle for you –
AltLike the TARDIS, your time machine has a fault.Like the TARDIS, your time machine has a fault. The fault isn’t a failure of its chameleon circuit, but a quirk in its ability to jump to particular dates. Picture courtesy aussiegall (Flickr), licensed Creative Commons.
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The Leap Machine (Puzzle)
Dan proposes a puzzle: if you know that it is 29th February in some randomly-selected leap year, what is the probability that it is a Monday? The answer is not one-seventh...
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Five
Dan and Ruth celebrate five years together; Dan spots some curious numeric coincidences; and the pair of them think about throwing a party.