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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Google Wants Your DIY Porn Videos
Got home videos? Send them to Google! That's the message that Google co-founder Larry Page is trying to put out.
In anticipation of launching a "video search" system, Google wants a stack of material on which they can test their "video spider" - a program which will hunt for keywords (spoken, or on-screen) in video material, … -
Black Holes “Almost Certainly Don’t Exist”
A brave physicist claims that black holes don't exist at all, but what we are interpreting as the existence of black holes - where stars have collapsed into tiny, superdense masses with an event horizon within which matter/energy escape is almost impossible - are actually... dark energy! (yes, yet another dark-matter/dark-energy claim)
It's a good one, … -
English Usage, And Colourblind Humour
I did the Commonly Confused Words Test (hey; shouldn't that be the Frequently Confused Words Test): here's my score -
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 93% Expert! You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to … -
A Social Weekend; Script Improvements, Too
Things are making progress re: the film - JTA's made a few script changes that actually make a couple of the relationships in the story make sense, to which Paul said "These changes make the story work... I don't like them..."
In other news, my parents have each agreed to lend us their respective video cameras, … -
For Sale: Pope - One Previous Owner
Seen this eBay auction?
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Lunch And Screenplays
I had lunch today at the cafe with Paul, Claire, Andy R, Sian, Bryn, Ruth, JTA, Liz, Hayley, and Jon, for the first public scrutiny of the script for The Film. As Production Coordinator (and Assistant Director), I'll be keeping Paul and The Cast from killing one another. Or, at least, keep the former from …
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Ceefax On Scatmania
Do you remember Ceefax, that wonderful service from the BBC that seemed so cool until you discovered the internet? Well I do. And so does a Dutch consultant who set up a system, on the web, for searching Ceefax pages.
Well; in any case; I thought that his site was fun (in a nostalgic kind-of way) … -
Aarne-Thompson Folktale Classification System
Would you know it: there's an "opposite number" to the Dewey Decimal System (introduction to the system [PDF]) - which for the most part of a centurey has been used to categorise books according to their topic and content - for categorising folk tales: the Aarne-Thompson Classification System.
It's horrendously difficult to find information on it … -
Tesco Delivery Service
I originally tried to post this message from my mobile phone, on the journey back from Norfolk, but fucked it up and failed miserabley. So here's a second attempt:
On the way back, in accordance with The Tradition, Claire and I visited Tesco in Wisbech (The Tradition dictates that any Aberite who leaves Aberysywth to visit … -
Great Melton and Little Melton
Thought I'd share with you all some pictures of Claire and her dad that we took with his camera while out and about in Norfolk. Click for larger images.
We'll be back with you Aberites tomorrow evening. I assume that Andy's blog post relates to Paul's inability (or discomfort) with writing lesbian sex scenes for the … -
Norfolk
Claire and I's grand tour of the United Kingdom brought us yesterday to Terrington St. Clement, near Kings' Lynn, in Norfolk, where Claire's dad lives.
As I anticipated, this has resulted in me here, too, helping to repair computers. Claire's dad's PC was a mess - Ad-Aware reported 183 malware/adware programs, Norton Anti-Virus reported 10 threats … -
Preston
Things achieved so far:
Got to Preston in three hours, which is pretty good going. We got stuck behind some idiots who seemed to think that "national speed limit" meant 30mph for awhile, but by the time we got to the big roads it was plain sailing. Without sails. Or a boat.
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All The Fun Of Aberystwyth
Aber's great this time of year - late enough that the weather becomes favourable, but early enough that the tourists haven't arrived. Alec came down the day before yesterday for an interview for the PGCE course he wants to get onto, which was cool, 'cos I haven't seen him in a long while, and we …
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RFC 2812 - Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: RFC 2812 - Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol.
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TinyApps.org
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: TinyApps.org.
Really tiny, really useful applications