Year: 2012
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Found GL8XV015 A Spoonful of sugar.......
This checkin to GL8XV015 A Spoonful of sugar....... reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After we didn't find it immediately, my friend and I looked at the hint, and it threw us completely off course! Knowing something about the cache led us to look on entirely the wrong side of …
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Found GL8V6Q36 One O Clock Gate
This checkin to GL8V6Q36 One O Clock Gate reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Woke up early while visiting friends Restlessboy and pickettywitch, so went out for a walk and found this lovely little cache while I was out. Took "Vegas Here We Come!", because anywhere I leave it has …
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The Coroner's Inquest
Dan provides reflections on his trip to Kendal for the coroner's inquest on his father's death, five months after he fell from a cliff in the Lake District.
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Edinburgh Free Fringe 2012 Venue Map
To help him get around the Free Fringe in Edinburgh this year, Dan's made a map of all of the Free Fringe venues, with links to all of their events. And you can see it too.
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Found GL8V6N29 UCLan Library - St. Peter's Church
This checkin to GL8V6N29 UCLan Library - St. Peter's Church reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with some difficulty as there's been scaffolding erected in front of the cache: takes some reaching to get past it, and also attracted me some strange looks from passers-by: not sure it's going …
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Found GL8V6KP2 ‘Mark It’ in Preston
This checkin to GL8V6KP2 ‘Mark It’ in Preston reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Second of my three quick cache runs this morning while running ahead of a lunchtime appointment. My pen had stopped working, though, so I couldn't sign the log. Great hiding place!
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Found GL8V6K85 big box little box # avenham
This checkin to GL8V6K85 big box little box # avenham reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A quick cache-run while running ahead of myself for a lunchtime meeting. Pen stopped working, so couldn't sign the log! TFTC.
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Bee
Dan finally finds time to play Emily Short's new Varytale work, "Bee", and has some heartwarming things to say about this most-unusual game.
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Quiet On Set
When you watch The Quiet Ones, listen out for Dan cycling past, complaining the whole way about the film crew that have taken up camp between him and his office.
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Is somebody chopping onions on this tube train? Oh wait: yes, actually.
AltChopping onions on a tube train
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Living In The Future
Google+ Hangouts makes multi-user video conferencing so easy that even Dan's mother can do it. It's like living in the future.
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Webcomics With Puzzles
Dan shares two webcomics that you might like to see, if you enjoy a good puzzle from time to time.
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KeePass for Opera
Dan develops a browser plugin for Opera to allow the KeePass Password Safe to work with Opera 12+, after the Opera team remove the feature upon which many KeePass users depended.
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Domain Name Hacks of 2013
With a plethora of new top-level domains planned to hit the Internet in 2013, Dan proposes a handful of new domain names, then feels sad that this new era might spell the end of "domain hacks", by making them too easy.
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In Europe? Here's the trick I used when Civ 5 was first released to get it a few days early... it'll probably work for Gods & Kings, too.
I've just tried this and it works; thought I'd share my results with you so that any fellow Europeans can give it a go too.
Pre-order the game in your own country (I'm in the UK and bought my copy months and months ago; paid in £)
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