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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Geek Night: Diplomacy
After last Sunday's Geek Night, I've observed that there are a fair number of us (well: Claire, JTA, Ruth and I, at least) who would be interested in an online, one-day-per-turn game of Diplomacy, an entirely skill-based strategy game made in 1959 and based on World War 1. It's a really, really simple game, but …
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Freedom Sport And Surf
There's a lesson here for any business with a web site:
I'm sure that you may be familiar with Freedom Sport & Surf, the sports goods shop on Alexandra Road (opposite the carpet shop formerly known as Rumbletums Cafe). Well; they had a website - FreedomSportAndSurf.com. But they let the domain name expire, and it's been … -
Urgent Message For Paul!
This is an urgent message for Paul M:
Some of us in Aber are concerned that your original travel plans had you returning to Aberystwyth on Monday 17th January. It is our understanding that you have an exam on the morning of Monday 17th January, and we're not sure you're aware of this. We have tried … -
Geeky Humour - The Concatenator
String c = a.concat(b); has never been so violent. -
Bill Gates Is Dead
Have you seen the tribute site to the life and death of Bill Gates: Bill Gates Is Dead.
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War Of The Chrononauts
This post is almost entirely about board games. If you're not interested, stop here.
As some of you will no doubt realise already, I have at long last gotten Chrononauts and War Of The Ring, two board games I've been trying to get my hands on for some time. Not being ones to want to wait … -
Bryn’s Challenge - Update
Here's the update on Claire and my progress with Bryn's Challenge - his happy little Un-Supersize-Me goal of avoiding fast food for a month:
All's good. We're also taking advantage of the opportunity to explore with cooking things we wouldn't normally, and I'll be sharing, here, some of the things we've tried. Starting with last night's … -
More Old Blogposts Recovered
I achieved another success this morning in my effort to recover as much as possible of my personal life online into one place - I've managed to rediscover five 'lost' (and previously unread) weblog posts from April 2003. Folks who really want to might care to go back and read:
April Fools Day (1st April … -
The Ad Graveyard
The Ad Graveyard collects some of the best and funniest rejected and cancelled advertisements in the world.
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Wet And Wild
There's a notice out today not to park on Marine Terrace... and with good reason. From the superior viewpoint offered from my office, it's crazy to watch the sea coming over the harbour bar in a way I've never seen before: I'm familiar with stormy days where the waves are crashing over the wall, but …
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Bryn’s “Un-Supersize-Me” Challenge
Claire and I have decided to take on Bryn's Fast-Food Challenge, in order to try to reduce the amount of fast food and other excessively unhealthy and pre-processed foods we eat (and in order to save a little money). I've no lack of confidence about this - until I was living with Claire, I was …
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Build Your Own Tin Foil Hat
StopAbductions.com has a guide to building your own "Thought Screen Helmet". From the website:
The thought screen helmet blocks telepathic communication between aliens and humans. Aliens cannot immobilize people wearing thought screens nor can they control their minds or communicate with them using their telepathy. When aliens can't communicate or control humans, they do not … -
Happy Birthday To Me
Thanks to everybody who came to Troma Night to celebrate my birthday on Saturday: that was fab. And special thanks to Hayley for baking a cake, and Jon for suggesting the decoration.
Troma Night was fun, and so was Geek Night (despite being just Andy, Claire and I) - a three-player game of Munchkin is actually … -
More Geeky Fun - Hack Security Cameras
This was one of my most-popular articles in 2005. If you enjoyed it, you might also enjoy:
The Ten Weirdest Sex Toys I've ever seen (2009)!
A dirty-looking calendar I found at work (2011).
My beliefs about why it's wrong to lie to children about Santa (2009), complete with pictures of naughty elves. … -
Three More “Extremely Critical” Internet Explorer 6 Vulnerabilities
Three more "extremely critical" Internet Explorer vulnerabilities are being reported today. Secunia's advice - Use another product.