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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Naruto Night
Yes, Naruto Night is on tonight.
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Snow!
Okay, so it isn't actually snowing, so the title of this post was a little bit of a lie. But it has been: walking to work this morning, I passed a number of cars (presumabley having come down from the mountains) with small drifts of snow on their rooves (not just frost, like those in …
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Mystery Blog
You know what I discovered at the weekend: Big Gay Adam has a weblog on LiveJournal. How did none of us notice this before?
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Not Quite Where We Planned To Be
Claire and I are in Preston. Let me explain how this came about.
As I mentioned, we spent Friday night and most of Saturday in Gregynog, a beautiful stately home owned by the University of Wales and used as a conference venue. Every year, the Computer Science department ships almost the entirety of the second year … -
Off To Gregynog
Right; I'm off to Gregynog and then on to Wolverhampton for Gareth and Liz's housewarming/Liz's birthday party. I've uploaded a few episodes of Dan & Alex to keep you all amused for the weekend (but I apologise in advance for them being a little self-referencial).
And while, of course, I can't say much on here, those … -
Ah; Friday…
In the words of Bender, "...another pointless day where I accomplish nothing." It's feeling a little that way. Last night's brownout knocked computers offline, and this morning BT severed a cable, depriving us of phones and internet access. It's an hour and a half into the day already and I've got nothing done so far.
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My Weekend
Following up on Andy's post, this weekend I have to:
Write some PHP for an online auction site I'm doing some work for, in order that I might actually have some money this month. Tidy the flat up: there's a viewer interested in buying the building who'll be visiting at 2pm on Sunday Not play … -
Duality
Duality, my main desktop PC at home, has been misbehaving, and I've had to take it to pieces, both virtually (tracing driver DLL calls - yum!) and physically (computer components littering the floor, etc.). It's been two years since it's last reformat/reinstall, which is a pretty long time for a Windows XP box treated the …
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The Bad And The Good
The Bad
I'm working very hard for stupid hours and not getting paid for it. I'm not sure where my job is going, but it's driving there pretty fast and the only room for me is if I squeeze into the boot. Which is full of socks, for some reason.
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/join #TheMatrix
Here's a geeky (well, geekier) retelling of The Matrix.
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Dan and Alex - Just Another Webcomic
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Dan and Alex - Just Another Webcomic.
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Fresh Ground Café
Hot on the heels of the news that the café below us is for sale, a new café has opened just across the road, where Serendipity (a restaurant I never got the chance to go to) used to be.
Fresh Ground Café can now be found at number 14 Cambrian Place. Claire thinks it's name is … -
Hello Shit; I’d Like You To Meet Fan… Fan, Shit…
Can't say too much on here, but I can't help but feel like I might need re-think my career options from this point. That is all.
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Gents Toilets Mystery
The gents toilets on the first floor of the building where I work is a complete mystery to me.
That's not strictly true. I know where the stalls and the urinals are. I know how to make the taps - little push-button ones - work. I know that the hand dryer to the right typically warms … -
All Ready For NaNoWriMo
Well, here goes nothing.
Words written: 0 / target: 50000
As many of you already know, I'm participating this November in NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month contest. The aim is to write, from a standing start, 50,000 words in 30 days. So... about 1,700 words a day. There were days that my dissertation got …