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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Making Progress
Claire's at work this Saturday morning, so I'm taking advantage of the oppertunity to finish the web site I'm developing for my dad - almost got a deployable version ready, which is nice, because I could do with getting his feedback on it and (assuming all's well with design and whatnot) deploying it "live" on …
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A Win For A Sensible Web Browser
I'm making progress with the people I work with. I've now got six of the eight folks in our office using Opera (they were formerly using Microsoft Internet Explorer, and some of them have tried Mozilla Firefox. Perhaps my recent spate of 'blog posts criticising Microsoft's browser - combined with the various hacks I've been …
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Warning - Severe Risk Of Death-By-Cuteness
Warning: the picture you are about to see is seriously cute. You have been warned. Brace yourself:
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Dadadodo Poetry
Decided to have Dadadodo, which I used yesterday, to generate some poetry based on my vanity pages from the old version of AvAngel.com, my perpetually-under-redevelopment web site. Take a look at this:
My body, of the religion,
That of seeing myself in a moment,
Stares ahead.
Always been an existential touch,
And I banish this.
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Damn My Buggy Code!
Whoops! As a result of some buggy code I'd written, my recent 'blog entries didn't get cross-posted to LiveJournal, as they usually do - it turns out that the cross-posting code I wrote only works if I write my entire blog entry at once... and my recent entries have been quite long and so I've …
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Dadadodo: Exterminate All Rational Thought
Downloaded a copy of Dadadodo, a syntax-capable word disassociator. Simply put, word disassociation programs tend to work by taking a body of text and randomly shuffling chunks of it around. Dadadodo instead builds a probability tree based on the frequency at which words occur in sequencial relationships with one another, and uses this as it's …
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Dreams Within Dreams Within Dreams
Last night I had a very odd dream, with references to previous (recurring) dreams, interspersed with appearances from people I've met since:
The dream begins in rough marshy ground. There is a dredger visible in the distance, but only one of it's two pumps appears to be working. I'm there with Claire, and we're trying … -
Things I Don’t Have Time For At Work
No, contrary to my co-worker's assumptions, I don't really have time to re-draw a set of web buttons in a different shade of green just because he's indecisive about the last three shades of green were 'wrong', but he didn't know by which direction and wasn't able to give any indication of what colour they …
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Something Cheery
I see that Slate, a magazine run by MSN (and owned entirely by Microsoft), recently published an article promoting the idea of not using Internet Explorer. Whoopsie, say Microsoft. Better yet, the article suggests using Mozilla Firefox, their main competitor in the browser market, instead.
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Rearing Of The Ugly Head, And Apache’s Dirty Secrets
Thank you to Faye for pointing out that Reb (you know, the girl I was going out with for a couple of years a few years back) has posted a comment to my blog. That's cool - I didn't know she read Scatmania...
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Software Projects In The Context Of Swings
Eons old, but I rediscovered it today while tidying up my hard drive, so I thought I'd share it with you all:
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Parallel Parking For Dummies
Have a go at the parallel parking game - let's so how good you lot are. I've managed to beat the rest of the folks at work with a stunning score of 87.72, parking in 5.7 seconds flat... not bad for the only non-driver!
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Scaring Creditors
Following up my earlier post on my financial situation and the various stresses it was causing me, comes better news. I had a conversation today with Direct Legal & Collections - one of my happy little creditors, which I'd been dreading, but it actually went far better than I'd have hoped... I think I scared …
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Money, Money, Money (Or The Lack Thereof)
A thought for current undergrads - do not underestimate the size of your debt. As a newly-graduate, I've had the oppertunity to step back and look at the size of my debt... or; to put it another way - the amount my income will be sapped for the next quarter of my life.
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God Violates Intel Trademark
It's all news, today! Lots of fascinating little stories and nothing about me. I mean, who's blog is it anyway?
According to The Register, the authoritive source on such matters, God may have infringed upon Intel's intellectual property. Only moderately funny, but nice and geeky.
In other news, I hear that AMD are planning to release a …