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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Rat Brain Flies Jet
Here's a scary little news story: Rat Brain Flies Jet, from The Register.
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Hayley’s LiveJournal
You know, there've been several occassions on which I'd have really loved to have left a comment on Hayley's LiveJournal, but she's set it so that only people she's listed as "friends" can post comments to it, and she hasn't listed anybody as friends!
But hey; now that I've mentioned this on my blog, everybody who … -
ATOM Feed Of Your GMail Inbox?
Checking my GMail account this morning, I noticed an unusual icon in the lower-right corner of the browser window:
It turns out that Google's GMail service seems to be testing an ATOM feed - a kind of syndication feed (similar to those used by weblogs and news sites - see Scatmania's ATOM feed) that can be … -
Security Engineering
A secure password does not make a system secure. No password - in fact, no authentication system - is entirely bulletproof. The key when designing a password-based access system, and choosing passwords, is to balance an equation. You must make the effort required to crack the password more valuable than the data the password protects. …
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TromaNightAdventure!
I've finished TromaNightAdventure, a WikiGame on RockMonkey. It's at version 0.9, so far, because there's still a few things I'd like to do with it (like add a "hints" page, for example!). But nonetheless, if you're a Troma Night fan, you ought to go play it!
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Windows XP SP1 Honeypot Breached In 200 Seconds
The internet is becoming a scarier and scarier place.
In a recent "honeypot" study, a Windows XP computer with Service Pack 1 was infiltrated in just 200 seconds, without even opening a web browser.
For the less techie-minded, a "honeypot" study involves setting up a new PC with a new operating system (in this case, a Windows … -
Blogspam A Problem… No More
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've been getting more than my fair share of blogspam of late. I've been spending about twenty minutes every three or so days clearing out the 'moderation' queue and updating my keyword lists. Worse still, some spam has been getting through nonetheless (hopefully I've always been quick to remove …
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More Letters After My Name
News of the day: (here I go, flooding you all with lots of small posts), I'm now Daniel Huntley BEng(Hons) MBCS, 'cos I'm now a member of the British Computer Society. Not quite sure whether or not this is a good thing, yet, but hey.
Hmm... they'll be sending me my membership card seperately from my … -
Forehead Protector?
Strangest thing I've seen all week.
Perhaps it'd help if I'd seen this Uzumaki thing... hmm... -
Popularity Of The Welsh Language
<ROFLMAO>
Want a giggle? Go to Google and type "old dead language" into the search box (with or without the quotes... either way), and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky!".
This is the follow-up to my experimental googlebomb the other week. I've had my fun, now, and I actually believe it's possible (I was skeptical when I first read … -
Somebody Writes Of Half-Life 2
Somebody on slashdot writes of Half-Life 2:
Doom 3 tried to generate atmosphere through the lack of light and the monster placement that was obviously designed to scare you. After a while it degenerated into one big black scare job to me, and wasn't very interesting as a result.
On the other hand, I felt that … -
Another Wonderful Dudley
Another fantastic Dudley's Dungeon today. For NetHack fans only.
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Quote Of The Day
Heard this today:
"There's something the Student's Union don't want: a silent, invisible, anonymous army of disgruntled students."
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Smash My Phone
For $12.99, you can have a model smash your phone and publish the video to the internet for you to enjoy again and again. Fucking weird.
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Tell Me About Your Heterosexuality
Rediscovered this online - some questions for the heterosexual:
What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
When and how did you first decide that you were a heterosexual?
Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase that you will grow out of?
Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems …