Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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'Nena' - Christmas Comes Early For Dan
I thought I'd say a little bit about my new home desktop computer, because it occurs to me that I hadn't said anything about it yet.
Dualitoo, my PC of the last few years, kicked the bucket on Friday a few weeks back, at a most inopportune time - I was due to write heaps of … -
SmartData's Christmas Message
In case anybody's interested, SmartData's animated Christmas card (with a little help from JibJab) is now online. Watch it here.
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SmartData Merry Christmas 2008
SmartData want to wish you a merry Christmas and happy software!
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The Christmas Tree Is Up
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OMG Child Pr0n (or is it?)
What a mess this is turning into! I am of course referring to the UK-wide internet censorship of a Wikipedia page (the one about the Scorpions album, Virgin Killer - if that last link doesn't work, you're among those affected).
The thinking is, according to the Internet Watch Foundation, that the cover of the 1976 album … -
Environmental Awareness and Yes, I'm Still Busy
The Technium's just hosted a seminar on environmental awareness. Walking past the conference room a few minutes ago, I noticed that the folks running the event had managed to leave running the projector and all of the lights, despite the fact that it had ended some time ago. Ah, the irony.
Went to a céilidh at … -
Fibre Optics Are Cool
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This is how I like my downloads to look. -
LiveJournal-to-Google Reader v2.0
I've just (finally) gotten around to releasing a brand new version of my LiveJournal-to-Google Reader proxy server, which makes it possible to easily read your LiveJournal friends' "friends only" posts in your Google Reader account (or whatever other RSS reader you use that doesn't normally make this easy).
I've announced the new version on the new … -
8 words
Ruth wrote:
Coming out to my mother as bisexual was something I thought about for years before finally taking the plunge. Braced for tears and recriminations, I was amazed and pleased to be greeted only with love and support.
Which was why telling her I was poly remains one of the most difficult things I've … -
Congratulations Alec & Suz
Alec and Suz's wedding was this weekend, and I went along to the wedding reception on Saturday evening, along with Claire, Jimmy, Liz and Simon. We turned up stylishly early, and took advantage of the bar while we waited for anybody else we knew to appear (okay, so there was the bride and groom, of …
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Who Wants Troma Night?
Claire and I are going to be out of town this coming Friday and the Friday after that. Who wants to host Troma Night? (assuming there'll be anybody left in town...) If nobody pipes up, I'll tag it as cancelled.
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Grief (Interactive Fiction)
It's not as spectacular as Violet, but I've just enjoyed playing Grief, another IF Comp 2008 entry. Download the .z8 file (which you can play in Windows Frotz or your favourite Z-Machine).
Play it a few times to see a few of the different endings: if only you could have done things differently... but perhaps things … -
Violet (Interactive Fiction)
It's been a long while, but I've got some more interactive fiction to recommend: Violet, by Jeremy Freese. It's got all of the usual things I like in a modern piece of interactive fiction: a believable, detailed world that you can really feel like you're a part of, and which "carries on" around you; a …
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How to be Mono-Friendly
Freaksexual just wrote a fantastic blog post (as usual) instructing monogamous people "How to be Poly-Friendly". It's an excellent little post about the kinds of faux pas it's easy to make without even thinking about it, and while it's very obviously targetted at monogamous folk who have polyamourous friends or lovers, I couldn't help but …
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Two Recent Dreams
Summaries of two dreams I've had recently:
The Parrot
Faye was moving out of her family home and into a flat of her own, and as it was small, she wasn't able to provide sufficient space for all of her many critters, so she rehomed a parrot (a Scarlet Macaw, although I'm pretty sure she only has …