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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Extended Geek Night As “Birthday Party”
Yay. Woo. I'm 25. Etc. Quarter of a century old. [Insert meaningful speech here.] Ahem. Thanks to all of you who came to Troma Night yesterday and saw my birthday arrive; and in particular to those of you who brought me alcohol. Bonus.
As I seem to have been given at least two (three if you … -
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Futurama May Come Back To Life
In the news: Inside Move: 'Futurama' may get new lease on life. That'd be fabulous.
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Back To Aber
Haven't posted to my weblog in a while, owing to a lack of internet access. Will get things up-to-date soon.
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Starting To Move
Many boxes are packed. Car is full of stuff. At 9am tomorrow, we start moving things. As stated before, all help is welcome!
This means that our internet connectivity is likely to be shaky for a few days, so, if you need us (or if something goes amiss: e.g. Abnib falls over, Dan & Alex fails … -
More Madness From Super Bust-A-Move
I don't get it. To prove to myself I could complete Super Bust-A-Move in Classic Mode, I did it again, by a slightly different route (you have some degree of choice over the levels you do as you progress through the game). I finished on a different level set, and got this final screen.
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Abnib, Version 3.0
Abnib Version 1.0 was a funny little beast. It was built to accomodate for about half a dozen bloggers, but ended up with about nine or ten. It worked, though, and the principle of aggregating the blog entries of our friends and our friends' friends took off. Abnib 1.0 had a few major flaws: firstly, …
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Super Bust-A-What-The-Fuck?
Just completed Super Bust-A-Move in Classic Mode. When you win, you're presented with the following screen (the text slowly fades in a line at a time):
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Where Are We Moving?
On Wednesday, 14th December 2005, Claire and I are moving house. For those of you who are allowed to know where we're going, here's a map and things [update: link killed late 2006]. You'll need to answer two to six weighted-value questions of your choice to demonstrate that you actually know us and aren't just …
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Why Liz Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Text
Yesterday, I received the following text message from Liz, out-of-the-blue:
Hey! Hope your[sic] having a great time. Yes i[sic] care. L x
I thought that was a little unusual, but as this is Liz (who once sent me a text to tell me to "stay sexy"), I didn't think too much of it.
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The End Of An Era
Well; yesterday saw the final Troma Night ever to take place in The Flat. Not to worry: there'll be more at The Sharp, as I'm currently calling Claire and I's new home, because "it's like The Flat... only a little bit higher." Still, it feels odd taking down all the film posters and things and …
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Chef
Those who found themselves confused by my programming recipe the day before yesterday can now be a little less confused (hopefully): here's the explanation.
The program is written in an esoteric programming language called Chef, who's sole purpose is to be able to write computer programs that look like recipes. There are even competitions to write … -
ALP Property Management, Again
Regular readers might remember that a few weeks ago I had dealings with ALP in Aberystwyth, a letting agency. This afternoon I received a phone call from a representative of them.
He seemed to be threatening to take legal action because of "discrepancies in the allegations" I'd made in my weblog post. Of course, I don't … -
A Challenge For My Programmer Friends
So you think you're a dab hand at learning new and unusual programming languages: even the most bizarre of them. You can get your head around Perl, and you might have even looked at LISP. Well, let's see who's first to correctly tell me what the output of the following computer program is. It's unique …