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Year: 2023

  • Dan pointing to a pair of wireless over-ear headphones that he's wearing.

    Double-Bluetooth

    The problem of "needing to be able to hear from two Bluetooth sources at once" is so real for me that I came up with a solution that I genuinely use all the time. You're not going to like it, though. 

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    • Note
    • posted 27 August, 2023
  • Screenshot showing a photo of the board/puzzle game Labyrinth, captioned "Paul Labyrinth is the protagonist of the game Labyrinth".

    Paul Labyrinth

    An open-source program that combines WikiData with a random generator to come up with almost-invariably inaccurate but sometimes hilarious facts.

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    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 24 August, 2023
  • Photograph showing a medium-sized geocache container with its contents laid-out around it: various pieces of swag for trade, plus a notebook.

    Are Geocache Logs Getting Shorter?

    Are geocaching log entries getting shorter? Let's extract a sample of 134,000 of them and make Excel cry. With graphs!

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1044 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 24 August, 2023
  • Motivational poster showing a photograph from a Manchester street. A Pride flag banner is hanging from a post with the words "everybody welcome" at the top. Nearby, attached to the same post, a road sign has the words "except buses". The poster is captioned with the word "inclusivity" (in pride colours), and subcaptioned "the 'B' is not for Buses". The joke is that the 'B' in LGBTQ+ stands for 'bisexual' and not 'buses', although of course the real meaning of that street sign is to ban everybody from driving straight ahead except buses, so the joke isn't perfect.

    Inclusivity

    The 'B' is not for Buses.

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    • Note
    • posted 24 August, 2023
  • .well-known/feeds

    .well-known/feeds is a draft standard by which a site can publicise an OPML-based list of feeds (or other metadata) associated with it, that I literally dreamed-up last night. What do you think?

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    • 12 comments
    • posted 23 August, 2023
  • "Batman's World" comic book in the window of a public library

    Batman's World

    I do not claim to have a good explanation nor excuse.

    Read more - about 1 minutes (19 words)

    • Note
    • posted 22 August, 2023
  • Posted a note for GC3D6J8 The Leap Year Club

    This checkin to GC3D6J8 The Leap Year Club reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Enjoyed solving this puzzle, although possibly not 100% in the way the author intended (I spotted some mathematical quirks that gave me a shortcut/cut down the number of possibilities for matching first and surnames!). Now I …

    Read more (71 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC3D6J8
    • posted 22 August, 2023
  • A green bauble buried in the mossy/grassy undergrowth of a forest floor.

    Couldn't find GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica

    This checkin to GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No luck here this morning for the geopup and I. The undergrowth has come through incredibly thick your summer, and we had to work hard to hunt in likely locations. (The hint didn't help …

    Read more (80 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC7Z2J6
    • posted 20 August, 2023
  • Dan, wearing a purple "Woo" t-shirt, crouches by Demmy, a champagne-coloured French Bulldog, in a path through the long grass between a wood and a field. In the distance, the church spire of St Peter & St Paul at Church Hanborough can be seen protuding above the treeline.

    Found GC5J1PP Badger's First Sett

    This checkin to GC5J1PP Badger's First Sett reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy find while out on a dog walk. Not been out this side of the wood before! Might have struggled to find the GZ were it not for the remnants of a "geo trail" through the dense …

    Read more (84 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC5J1PP
    • posted 20 August, 2023
  • Dan, on a path through a young cornfield, stares towards the distant clouds.

    Found GC340EG Leslie

    This checkin to GC340EG Leslie reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I find myself in Cropredy but once a year, at most, and for the obvious reason. The festival atmosphere, not to mention the hordes of revellers, does not in general bode well for a successful geocaching expedition! But I've …

    Read more (197 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC340EG
    • posted 12 August, 2023
  • Photograph showing Dan, wearing a "go both ways" t-shirt and a rainbow-striped bandana and grey shorts, sits between a 6-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl (the girl is wearing a Pikachu hat).

    Found GC340FP Sanders

    This checkin to GC340FP Sanders reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I managed to log most of the local geocaches during last year's Fairport by getting up early each morning (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), while the other revellers were still nursing their hangovers, but I wasn't able …

    Read more (57 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC340FP
    • 1 comment
    • posted 11 August, 2023
  • Frame from a video showing TomSka's hand pushing a hot dog sausage into a bun, on top of fried onions and sauces. The picture is captioned "July 6th".

    Bottomings

    TomSka says sauce and toppings should go under hot dogs. After my initial reaction of shock and horror, I think he might actually be on to something.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 9 August, 2023
  • 512kb.club

    Proud to say that danq.me is the newest site to be admitted into Kev Quirk's 512kb club. Let's keep the web lean!

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    • Note
    • posted 2 August, 2023
  • A cardboard box labelled "RSS reader", out of which sunbeams emanate.

    RSS Zero isn't the path to RSS Joy

    There’s nothing special about reaching Inbox Zero in your feed reader.
    It’s not noble nor enlightened to get to the bottom of your β€œunread” list.
    Your πŸ‘ feed πŸ‘ reader πŸ‘ is πŸ‘ not πŸ‘ an πŸ‘ email πŸ‘ client. πŸ‘

    Read more - about 6 minutes (1365 words)

    • Article
    • 16 comments
    • posted 29 July, 2023
  • Screenshot of DanQ.me's RSS feed as viewed in Firefox, showing a "Q" logo and three recent posts.

    Better WordPress RSS Feeds

    I've been adding bonus features to my blog's RSS feeds for a while now. Wanna hear about them?

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1184 words)

    • Article
    • posted 28 July, 2023

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