Month: December 2023
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Wonder Boy
I first played Wonder Boy on an arcade machine 35 years ago, and have played on-and-off ever since. Until today, when I finally beat it for the first time.
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It Is Only Q
The programmers at British Gas are among the many who don't believe that a surname can be only a single character, and their customer service agents have clearly worked around their validations (or just left a note for themselves in the problematic field!)... leading to hilarious postal mail.
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They See Me (Blog)Rolling
Inspired by Tracy Durnell, I've for the first time since 2008 started publishing a 'blogroll' of people I follow (now, dynamically-produced from my feed reader!).
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The Underground Blog
Chris McLeod's started a blog that's ONLY available via a feed reader. How cool is that?
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Magician Roles
Because I work somewhere hip enough to let people tweak their job titles, mine is "Code Magician".
LinkedIn isn't as hip as Automattic, though, because they keep emailing me sector updates... for the "Magician" sector... 😅 -
Blogging Stats
I finally got around to automating the generation of statistics about my blogging frequency. Now with interactive graphs!
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Lightboxes Without JavaScript
An image lightbox overlay with no JavaScript whatsoever? Absolutely. Here's how I do it.
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Mental Elf Day
Christmas Jumper Day at the kids' school. Because I'm the "embarrassing parent", I joined in for the school run too.
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I don't want your data
Manu doesn't want your data, and I don't either.
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FreeDeedPoll.org.uk, Punk Rock Edition
A Birmingham-based punky trio, Luxury Nan Smell, have released a song named "freedeedpoll.org.uk", in reference to my website of the same name. This was just the kind of uplifting thing I needed to hear about.
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Freezing Fog
Gorgeous freezing fog over the fields on the school run this morning.