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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Rock Exchange v1.0
Rock Exchange, my new RockMonkey WikiGame, has been launched. Go play!
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Stressy Bear
Eek! That'll teach me to procrastinate! I've been putting off various jobs I've needed to do for work this last week and a half, thinking that they all needed to be done by Friday this week. But it turns out there's a mighty amount of stuff that needs to be done by tomorrow morning.
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Ruby Active Record Associations [PNG]
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: Ruby Active Record Associations [PNG].
Understanding has_one, has_many, belongs_to, etc. -
How to Hack Firefox to Make it Faster!
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: How to Hack Firefox to Make it Faster!.
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The Champagne Murders
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Rock Exchange
This weekend I hope to release Rock Exchange, my latest WikiGame on the RockMonkey wiki. I'm just finishing performing some tests and fine-tuning on it now. Here's a screenshot:
In Rock Exchange, players will be able to invest their hard-earned Rocks (a unit of currency) in shares in the various pages on the RockMonkey wiki. The … -
Client Of The Day
Oh, some of our clients are funny. A client of ours, who hosts her web site and e-mail with us, calls me up because she has difficulty getting access to her webmail:
Her: "My e-mail doesn't work."
Me: (not knowing much about her configuration) "Are you using a web browser to check your e-mail, over the web? … -
Frag!
Frag! arrived this afternoon, earlier than expected. If anybody wants to come around to The Flat in advance of Naruto Night this evening, we can have a quick blast at it... what do you think?
In other news, Predictive Solutions, with whom we share the offices on this, the first floor of the Aber Technium, are … -
[this post originally appeared on AvAngel.com; a copy is archived here]
It looks like the shit has hit the proverbial fan as far as Diogel is concerned. AvAngel.com, and all other sites formerly part of the Big McLargeHuge collective, is very, very dead.
This site is coming back online by installments. Watch this space.
Normal service will be … -
Dan And Alex
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Thanks To Y’all
Thanks to those of you who put up with me being mopey last night and eventually fixed it by getting me drunk. That was fab, thanks.
Hangover's starting to kick in, now. -
Lord Fear’s Copy Of ZoneAlarm
AltZoneAlarm running on Mount Fear
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Dan And Alex
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The Abnib Real Ale Ramble 2005
Wow; there seems to be a lot of interest in the idea I just blogged. That's brilliant!
Now there's just the small matter of arranging how everybody who wants to go is going to get there, and where they're going to stay once they have. To this end, I've set up a web page: The Abnib … -
Llanwrtyd Wells Real Ale Ramble
What's everybody doing on the third weekend in November? If I could find reasonabley-priced accomodation (everybody likes camping, right <wink>), who'd be up for the Llanwrtyd Wells Real Ale Ramble - two days of trekking over hills and being fed real ale at various points along the way?
From the web site:
The Real Ale Ramble …