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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Last Night’s Dream
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[further fragments of this post were recovered on 13 October 2018]
Last night's dream was somewhat weird. Like so many of mine:
I'm travelling by train with Claire. We're going to … -
Futurama’s Coming Back
Okay, it's not certain yet, but Wired News reports that it, and Family Guy (also killed by Fox) will make a comeback on Cartoon Network, with new episodes sponsored by the channel.
Yay. And, indeed, hey.
And in other news, to celebrate the change of name from Lindows to Linspire, Lindows.com are giving away copies of Linspire. … -
Whatever Happened To The Ship & Castle?
This is a disaster! According to The Cambrian News, the Ship & Castle has been closed down as a result of failing to pay it's license fees. Now where am I supposed to waste money on good real ale and pickled eggs?
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A Demonstration Of The Next Generation Of ‘Phishing’ Attacks
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If you've been on the internet for any length of time at all, you'll probably have come across the concept of a … -
TGFPC Script Read-Through
Dan and friends do a read-through of a film script they've put together.
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Words Not To Use When You Don’t Want To Scare People
I hate it when I have to re-write a document to prevent it from scaring people. I've needed to remove the words 'hypnotise', 'malleable', and 'ordeal' from a document before I've been allowed to publish it. Just because people don't like thinking of things in terms of how much probing-within-your-head it involves...
My workmates and I … -
Dead Badger Linux
Anyone with a pair of pliers can install Red Hat on a toaster or a motorcycle... it takes a real (sick) geek to install Linux on a dead badger.
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Two Men, Two Bikes, One Wall
After the success of yesterday's run, today I was exhausted. The weather was horrific, and we found ourselves having to pedal hard to get DOWNhill.
On my account, we had to take several extended breaks, which had us arrive in Stornoway, isle of Lewis, half an hour outside of our target window. I just collasped into … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, One Wall
You get to your third day of an exercise that your body isn't used to and you hit the wall: the point at which your body runs out of all it's immediate sources of energy and has to start the complicated chemical reactions that break down fat into sugars.
You know this has happened because suddenly … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, Six Islands
Farmer at Berneray warned us that Stornoway, where we'd be tomorrow night, was a bed of sin, with young people drinking at taking drugs (this is a town barely larger, and more isolated, than Aberystwyth). He'd lived his entire life on this tiny island, and knew everybody on it, and it therefore stood to reason …
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Two Men, Two Bikes, Six Islands
Just wrote a fantastic piece about the islands we visited on our second day's cycling only to have this shitty device eat it. So here's a summarry:
Barra - small. Cycled over mountain, took ferry North.
Eriskay - tiny fishing community.
South Uist - long, flat, full of highland cattle and sheep. Heavily Catholic.
Benbecula - picturesque.
North Uist - … -
Girl, 15, Charged With Child Porn Offences And Sexual Abuse Of Childen
Not the usual kind of story I link from my 'blog, but this particular case is of interest because the girl in question is both the perpetrator and the victim, so to speak: she posted pictures of herself online, performing sexual acts. From what we can gather, she did this of her own free will …
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Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mission
The keyboard on this tacky little GPRS device is crap, and I just lost this entire entry to bad user interface design (if you press the biggest button on the device, it throws it all away):
My dad and I drove to Glasgow, arriving this morning at about 2am. Then, up at 8am for the first … -
And I’m Off
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[additional fragments were recovered on 13 October 2018]
Off to Scotland, that is, where I'll be spending a long weekend cycling and island-hopping. I've got a brief stop in Preston … -
Chicken-Heated Atomic Weapons, And Quake [TM] For Those Who Miss Text-Based Adventures
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[further fragments were recovered on 13 October 2018]
Two fantastic bits of funny news for you this April Fool's morning:
1. A seven-ton atomic landmine, designed to prevent Soviet advance through …