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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New PWL Music Video
In case you hadn't seen it already, I just wanted to bring your attention to the stunning new music video - Tree Of Knowledge - from Pagan Wanderer Lu. Christians like you are why God invented lions.
Normal service will be resumed just as soon as I can get five minutes in which to … -
QParty - Part 1 - Before The Party
Well, it's been three weeks since QParty (and the heap of blog posts it generated) and about thirty weeks since Claire and I changed our names to Q, and I suppose it's time to write my piece about QParty itself - I was stalling on doing so until I'd uploaded a majority of the photos …
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LiveJournal For Google Reader v1.3 Update
Earlier this year, I released my LiveJournal Atom Feed Digest Authentication Proxy (also known as LiveJournal For Google Reader Users). This tool allows Google Reader users to subscribe to "friends only" posts in LiveJournal weblogs, which normally isn't possible because Google Reader doesn't support the necessary authentication methods.
Thanks to the hundreds of users that use … -
QParty First Thoughts
Claire and I are back from QMoon now (in Italy, as you'll have guessed if you read the four virtual postcards I posted to my blog), and it was a fantastic trip right up until we went to come home and everything went wrong. You'd be amazed how much trouble you can cause for yourself …
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QMoon Virtual Postcard #4
Pompeii was simply stunning; so much more than I'd expected. For a 2000 year old town it's in excellent condition: in some places, it's even possible to make out painting on the walls of the villas and pretty much whole buildings, as well as mosaics, statues, fountains and the like are perfectly preserved. It's simply …
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QMoon Virtual Postcard #3
The motorists have a game here in Napoli. The aim is, over the course of your journey, to (justifiably) sound your horn at other motorists more times than other motorists sound theirs at you. The taxi driver who brought us from the station to our hotel yesterday is particularly good at this game: I counted …
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QMoon Virtual Postcard #2
We arrived in Rome last night to find a city teeming with life. There's a buzz everywhere, and a crowd whereever you look. Roma Termini, the central station, stretches for miles and is bustling with commuters and tourists, fighting their way through ticket office queues or met.ro (the underground train system) gates.
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QMoon Virtual Postcard #1
Thank you all so much, everybody who came to QParty, and to everybody who's blogged about it (I'm paying a small fortune for internet access, so I haven't had time to read everything you've all written, but I've been quite moved by everything I've seen so far: abnib must be full of Q-jokes!), and in …
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QParty Venue Not So Ready As Expected
Blogging from Roper Hall, where, in 5 hours, QParty will be starting. It seems that the management might have been a little optimistic when it came to their scheduled renovations...
There's still rubble on the floor. The furniture is in stacks. The sound system isn't connected. Did I mention the rubble?
Kit, Fi, Matt, Matt, JTA and … -
“Five Years Ago I Met Claire, And I’ve Not Looked At Another Woman Since”
That's one of the things the people who don't know Claire and I very well may be expecting to hear in my speech at QParty on Saturday. I've finally managed to finish writing everything I wanted to say and trimming it all down so nobody gets bored to tears waiting for me to finish. Better …
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QParty Venue
During the worst of my fretting about QParty this weekend, I thought that what might be best to calm me down would be to talk to my folks, in Preston, and check up on the things that they've been looking after for me (confirming that the venue is booked, arranging catering, etc.).
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strange dream
Beth wrote:
Last night I had an utterly bizarre dream in which I was at the Q party, which for some reason was at Dan and Claire's huge sprawling country bungalow. The sun was shining and everyone was running about in the garden. I wish I could remember more, I do remember having a … -
Sometimes I Read Too Much Into Things
This post was removed shortly after its publication after a misunderstanding by the sender of the card lead to anger from their side of the family. I tried to pacify them, acceding to their every request (explaining my thinking, sending an apology, removing this post, and eventually removing the comments they'd published to the post) …
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8 Days To QParty
It's 8 days until QParty.
I still have to write a speech. And some other things.
I haven't heard back from the venue to confirm that they've remembered our booking.
I don't have a clue what's going on. Neither, judging by some of the responses I'm getting to e-mails, do many of … -
The Purple Rose
I received a surprising gift at work this morning. Click the picture for a full-size snap.
AltA Purple Rose... But From Who?
A gift box from InterRose, delivered by Royal Mail Special Delivery. The building manager who brought it up from the reception desk to my office kept insisting that it wasn't from him (apparently …