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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Hide & Seek
Following the success of our last game of hide & seek in the Castle, Paul, Bryn, Claire and I went for another game last night. Ah; the simple joys of childish fun - legging it around a darkened ruin at night. Right up until silly screaming girls filled the area. Then we left.
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Arriva And The Bus Route Of Doom
Missed my bug this morning. It seems that Arriva carried out some changes to the local bus timetables at the weekend. This much I knew about. I also know that my bus would now be leaving the bus station at 0740 (rather than the 0750 I'm used to), so I arrived ten minutes earlier than …
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Amazon Pre-Order For Half-Life 2
I can't believe that it's been 13 and a half months since I pre-ordered Half-Life 2 on Amazon. I went to check on my order earlier today:
It seems that my delivery estimate hasn't been fixed - I can still (apparently) expect to receive my copy of this long-awaited game by 2nd October... 2003. Hmm. -
Bryn - Afro Man!
Picture removed. The joke's gotten old. - Dan, 5 June 2007
Picture reinstated. The joke's so old that it's now dead, and this page can serve as a permanent archive to what once was. - Dan, 7 October 2018
Picture removed again. I'd misunderstood a conversation in which I believed Bryn had approved of its reinstating. - … -
The Internet As An Art Form - The Infinite Cat Project
Just came across the Infinite Cat Project. The premise is simple: take a picture of your cat looking at the current picture on the web site, and send it in, and it will become the current picture. The first cat is Frankie: just click Next Cat to get to the next one.
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Troma Night Website Integrates With Abnib
Woo and indeed hoo! I'm really starting to enjoy programming RSS feeds into my web sites now. I've just done a little bit of recoding of the Troma Night website to allow the newly-relaunched Aberystwyth weblog aggregator, Abnib, to syndicate it. Now, Abnib will show the details of the next upcoming Troma Night... and not …
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How Am I Coding?
AltHow am I coding?
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Abnib’s Back!
(much thanks due to Gareth)
Abnib, the Aberystwyth Weblog Aggregator (bringing you niblets of the best of Aber's weblogs) is back online, after months of absence. Take a look and see who you recognise.
Haven't quite gotten around to putting everybody's 'mugshots' in there (as I'm having some difficulty with semitransparent PNGs), but Gareth's made a good … -
Belt Buckle Shows Highlights Of Crazy Search Results
This is just crazy. Some mad geeks have adapted a Pocket PC into a hip 80s-esque belt buckle, such that it displays a scrolling list of popular web search terms of the last 24 hours, live... at your crotch.
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Thunderbirds Are… NO!
I saw Thunderbirds at the cinema last night. Jeez; was that awful. Unlike Bryn (who's complained at length about the film already), I'm not a long-standing fan of the original TV series, and so the film didn't 'ruin' it for me (although I did notice several major inconsistencies). Nonetheless, I still found the film to …
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How Google Could De-Throne AIM, And Other Geeky News
There's an article on how Google could overthrow AIM/ICQ (link removed; apple-x.net now seems to be occupied by domain squatters), and perhaps even MSN Messenger, from their dominant positions in the instant messenger market, and improve internet standards usage and accessibility, by releasing their own instant messenger tool powered by the (wonderful) Jabber protocol. It's …
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A.I. For Deluded Nutcases
Some goon (sorry: Californian counsellor) has patented Inductive Inference Affective Language Analyzer Simulating Artificial Intelligence (including the Ten Ethical Laws Of Robotics). It's nothing but unintelligible babble, interspersed by (inaccurate) references to artificial intelligence theory. The author (who also writes a book on family values with a distinct evangelic slant, from which most of the …
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Burny Burny Firey Goodness
Gareth came over this weekend, and he, Bryn, Paul, Claire and I decided to have a bonfire and a barbeque on the beach. Sadly, Matt - who's in town for resits - couldn't join us, as he's busy revising (best of luck to you, Matt!).
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What If Windows 98 Had Activation?
Or: Yet Another Reason Why 'Activation' Is Bad
There are already loads of articles out there explaining why 'product activation', which made it's first appearance in a piece of Microsoft software in their release of Windows XP, is a bad thing. Product activation, which you may already have experienced, works by making a 'fingerprint' of the … -
Troma Night Becomes Locally Famous
While doing a few errands around town, Bryn and I stepped into Pier Video to check whether Paul had already rented the three videos we're planning to watch at this evening's themed Troma Night: Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, and - …