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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IXUS 5 Repair Guide
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: IXUS 5 Repair Guide.
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Paul Mann Categorises The Wiki World
Paul seems to be celebrating finishing his hand-ins by categorising the entire RockMonkey wiki. Go see the newly-improved RockMonkey category structure, starting your explorations at category root...
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Geek Night
Last night's Geek Night was fab: thanks to everybody who came. I didn't win a single game, but that's not what it's about at all, really, is it. Kings & Things was fab, and it was great to get to play Tigris & Euphrates again (and lose for a change, damnit, at it). It was …
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Hollywood Pizza
Hey, I was just looking at Troma Night's last Hollywood Pizza receipt, and I've noticed that they've stopped writing the full address at the top of the receipt for the delivery driver. Now they just write "Cambrian Place".
After 75+ Troma Nights, we've finally managed:
To be their only customer in Cambrian Place: or, at least, … -
Dan’s Dingbats Challenge II - Results
Great turnout for Dan's Dingbats Challenge II. Thanks for playing, all of you who did! Here's the scoreboard:
Position Player Time Taken Right Answers Total Time 1 The Amazing WonkoBest score, great time to boot... beat Jimmy by just three seconds. 3mins, 42secs 13.5 4mins, 2secs 2 JimmyFastest overall time and a very good … -
Lib Dems In Ceredigion
Lib Dems win in Ceredigion over Plaid Cymru, by 219 votes, after a recount. Our little election party just took off...
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A Diversion From The Election
Looking for a diversion from the fun of tonight's vote-counting? Here's Wikipedia's "List Of Frivolous Political Parties.
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Dan’s Dingbats Challenge II
Hot on the heels (that'd make a good dingbat!) of Dan's Dingbats Challenge I (results and answers here) comes Dan's Dingbats Challenge II! The dingbats are, on average, a little easier (and a little more logical), but the penalty for skipping one or getting it wrong has been increased to 40 seconds added to your …
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Paul Is The Most Fucking Random Person In The World
Paul M: fucking nutter. The most random person you're ever likely to meet. But you've got to love his sincerity.
This morning, I'm happily sat at my workstation, staring, as I do, at program code and pausing from time to time to check the RSS feeds of the usual crew, when the phone rings: Matt answers … -
Geek Night This Week Is Sunday
On account of Bryn being a pest, Geek Night this week will be on Sunday, not Friday. Would people who read this ensure that people like Binky and Fatty get told, 'cos I'm not sure they read my blog. Thanks.
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Some Pictures From My Phone
Some pictures I just extracted from my phone:
ASSA are branching out. Not just (experi)mental music, they do locks, too!
This sticker was found in the ladies toilets underneath the library on Llanbadarn Campus. I think it might be a little out of date... look at the phone number!
Paul & his dragon. I'm not sure whether or … -
Dan’s Dingbats Challenge I - Results
I'm glad to see so many people took part in Dan's Dingbats Challenge I; hope you all had fun. As promised, here are the results (and the answers). Don't forget, the total time is the time taken plus a 30 second penalty for every wrong answer or skipped question. I did award a number of …
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Dan’s Dingbats Challenge I
Think you can think laterally: think again!
Remember Dingbats, that board game with the cards with the phrases on them, expressed through cleverly laid-out words and pictures (a bit like Catch Phrase, that old TV show [is that still running]). Well, anyway, it involves pictures a bit like this:
The picture shows the word "somewhere" mysteriously suspended … -
Troma Night
Apologies to those I "disappeared" on last night - I was feeling quite horribly unwell and went to bed.
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KnightmareWikiGame
My upcoming RockMonkey WikiGame is set to impress, I hope: I'm aiming for the most adventurous WikiGame ever created. There's a screenshot available of the kind of thing I've got working so far. Probably a few weeks from completion, though.