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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Andy’s Gig - Logistics
Andy is putting together the logistics for the Pagan Wanderer Lu gig in Manchester this weekend, so here are the instructions for Team Aber. Please contact me if anything here seems wrong or needs clarifying!
Team Aber's PWL Plan
Team Aber currently consists of:
"Wheels" Claire "Steals" Dan Paul "The Hat" Matt "The Hat Copycat" And special … -
The Good, The Barbeque, And The Ugly
This weekend's Troma Night was brilliant: it was themed The Good, The Bad, And The Troma and we watched the original The Great Train Robber, from 1903, with Claire providing piano accompaniment, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (of course), the "Gunmen Of The Apocolypse" episode of Red Dwarf, and Kung-Fu Hustle, which was …
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Wonder If Jon Even Remembers This
Last night Jon came onto the RockMonkey chat room at just before 5am, having just come back from a rave and full of "love and party drugs", as I'm sure he'd say. Because he asked so nicely at the time (down near the bottom), here's a transcript:
(I've emboldened some of the bits that are "lovey", … -
OpenID For WordPress
Update: 12th October 2007 - this project is to be considered abandoned. Please see How To Set Up OpenID For WordPress Comments instead. Thanks for the support and for your interest in OpenID.
THIS IS ALL HORRIBLY OUT OF DATE. THE DOWNLOAD LINKS DON'T WORK, I KNOW. GET OVER IT. More seriously now, I am … -
OpenID And Scatmania
Over the last few weeks I've playing playing with an exciting new technology known as OpenID. Do you remember Microsoft Passport and it's opposite number, Liberty Alliance? Well; we all know that these services weren't all they cracked up to be. They claimed to be "distributed log-on services", but in actual fact they were centralised …
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Bush On ‘Intelligent Design’
Bush approves of 'Intelligent Design', we hear, a theory that's gaining popularity amongst some Christian groups as a competitive scientific approach to the theory of natural selection. It specifies that while evolution has occured, it was guided by an intelligent force.
But the thing that it's fans repeatedly fail to notice is that it isn't a … -
The Knights Of Gaerog
Chapter I: The Knights Of Gaerog
Once upon a time, long ago, there was a large and sprawling kingdom with a great number of citizens, spread across a country of rolling hills and open flatland: the kingdom of Academia. The kingdom of Academia, which had for a long time been untroubled by war or famine, dedicated … -
Peekaboom!
This game is so much fun: Peekaboom!
You are paired up with a random other player. For each round, one of you is a "peeker" and the other is "booming". The boomer has a photograph in front of them and a word that associates with it (e.g. "balls", "men", "cooking", "elephant"). They can click on parts … -
Suzannaless
Well; apparently our new year in industry person, Suzanna, won't be working for us after all. She called up this morning to say that she had accepted a placement elsewhere.
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Nia’s Back
Nia, the Technium receptionist who became badly injured after falling from Constitution Hill over six months ago, is on her feet again and well enough to come back to work. She'd only just started a permanent contract with the Technium when she sustained her injury, and now she's back.
Minus a few physical changes (weight loss; … -
Microsoft SQL Server Versus FTP
This is a geeky post. You have been warned.
Microsoft SQL Server is one of those funky advanced database management systems that supports replication. One of even fewer that supports merge replication - where data edited and updated at two separate databases can be merged on a schedule and the changes reproduced at both ends, and … -
Cold Dead Badge
Those who (for reasons of their own) enjoyed the cold dead fingers wallpaper I produced a week ago are invited to buy, if they wish, a Cold Dead Fingers badge!
£1 to anybody who wants one. All proceeds will be donated to a local volunteer-run nocturnal telephone listening service. 14 available. The box is by my … -
Abnib v2.2
Abnib now supports "feed hiding" of the "community" feeds (RockMonkey, Troma Night, Gallery). Just click the "hide feed" link at the bottom of a post of the type you don't want to see. This feature by demand of Jon.
In other news, Blue Dragon is proving somewhat popular, with 7 registered players (plus me, but I … -
Notting Hill’s Passenger Warning
This photograph taken using a camera phone in Notting Hill station, London.
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Legend Of The… Blue Dragon
Following up my thoughts earlier about old-school online games, I did some investigation into what became of fab old games like Legend Of The Red Dragon. It turns out that there was an effort to revive this particular one as a web-based game called "Legend Of The Green Dragon". Well; as it was open-source I …