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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Off To Barcelona (Via Preston)
Claire (on a new blog!) and I are off to Barcelona, via Preston (for a concert by an orchestra & a fireworks display at Houghton Tower, as we did a couple of years back). Here's the usual series of updates for everybody who remains:
Troma Night is on this and next Saturday. Sort it out … -
ANSI Escape Codes
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ANSI Colour & Escape Codes -
This Looks Promising
Hmm... my blog works. On it's new host.
This looks promising.
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Bash Prompt Configuration - PS1
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How to configure your bash prompt to show a sensible path, or time, or whatever -
Penguins
Funny picture. Just needs a caption.
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The Scat Men
Don't usually go in for these memes, but this one was too funny not to publish.
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The Scat Men Stats
Formed: 29th June 2005 Split: 10th September 2011 Best Album: 'Supremo' 7/10 in the NME Best Single: 'Unstates' 6/10 in the NME Records Sold: … -
Widescreen - Huge free wallpapers
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No2ID: The Musical!
An introduction to ID cards for fans of Gilbert & Sullivan.
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Abnib Gallery
As you may be aware, Jon is developing the next generation of Abnib (preview - looks fab, eh?). To coincide (and integrate) with this, there's now an Abnib Gallery, to which Abnib-ettes can post photos relating to the activities of themselves with other abnib-ettes: a place to collate our photographs of the fires we have …
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Sewage Leak Update
I see that the council are still recommending that people don't swim in the sea off Aberystwyth, with signs all along the promenade, after a pollution incident at the weekend, although they've allowed access to the beach again. I called the hotline number and determined that the sewage leak most likely occured at the pumping …
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Catch-Up: Back In Aber
Yeah; more catch-up stuff. Server was down, and I was lazy. Get over it.
Having returned from Preston/Manchester/Milton Keynes/London, this week has been spent back in Aberystwyth. Thursday's Naruto Night had us in front of Future Boy Conan, an early Miyazaki cartoon series, among other things. Friday's Geek Night saw us play two of the games … -
Catch-Up: Concerts
Yes, it's true, I'm bad at blogging. But as we all know, weblogs suck anyway. Regardless: here's the long-awaited catchup of my whereabouts and doings of the last week (as all I'd previously said is that I'd left and that I'd got back again.
Claire and I went to Preston a week last Thursday evening, for … -
Meatball Wiki: SoftSecurity
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O what a beautiful moooooorniiiiing...
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Ruth wrote:
So, after raining for both my days off, it's now sunny again. I don't mind though. Friday I got rained on, had lunch at MGs, got rained on some more, did laundry, went for a bike ride and got rained on. In the evening … -
Naruto Night II
Tonight at 8, if anybody's interested. "Future Boy" and "Ghiblies" are on the cards, as is "Naruto" if either (a) Paul brings some, (b) Not-Gay Gareth brings some, or (c) I acquire some by then. See you later!