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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Operation: Anticipated Container
To those who remain in Aber:
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to acquire as many cardboard boxes as possible in anticipation of Kit's upcoming mission in Stirling. Boxes selected are to be at the operatives' discretion, and from targets of oppertunity. Suggested primary targets include Somerfield, Safeway, Lidl, and Kwik Save. Suggested … -
Plug ‘N’ Pray
Looking to change your religion using an easy, clean interface? Try Plug 'n' Pray from Holy Corporation.
A site well-worth reading.
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My New Work Computer… Won’t Be Delivered Today…
It turns out that there's been a huge fire in a BT service tunnel, knocking out 130,000 phone lines and numerous data links in the Manchester area.
This, in turn, has caused Microland UK to be unable to process our credit card details and deliver me my new work PC, a swanky-looking Athlon 64 3GHz box.
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Free Parking Jackpot
Am I the only purist here?
I am, of course, referring to Monopoly. Pretty much everybody I know doesn't play Monopoly by the correct rules, as laid down by Waddingtons. And how many arguments does this cause? It's unbelievable!
What's even scarier is the number of people that honestly believe that their particular variation of the rules … -
I’m Still In Aber. Yay.
[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]
I'm still in Aberystwyth, which I thought was a good thing even before people who don't have the same benefit complained [Alec complaining, Ruth complaining, Adam complaining] about it. … -
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Claire wrote:
Well, the clocks have gone forward and the sun has come out. Something tells me there'll be no more snow for a while. Yesterday, Dan, Paul, Bryn and I went up Pen Dinas (large hill south of aber with monument atop it) and had … -
Picnic Time
We're off on a picnic! Bryn, Claire, Paul and I are making sandwiches and we're off up Pen Dinas to scoff them and watch the sunset. Which is nice.
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All We Need Is A Microsoft-Hating US Judge And…
[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]
[further fragments of this post were recovered on 12 October 2018]
First, some info for the non-geeks out there, so you can truly appreciate the irony in what's to come:
Lindows … -
Windows XP Box
This is scary. This guy's managed to build a mini-ITX Windows XP box... inside a Windows XP box (by which I mean one of those boxes in which they ship copies of Windows XP). It's a full working computer (well, it runs Windows, but you know what I mean) inside the box that originally contained …
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Dissertation Poster Session Two
The second poster session for my dissertation is today. This will involve me standing in front of a board in the Llandinam concourse with some pretty pictures and explaining them to people.
This also brings home the realisation that my dissertation needs to be handed in in just a month's time. Still got many, many thousand … -
Hooray! I’m Sexy! Official!
Just got a text message from Liz:
Stay sexy! Lx
Not sure if that's supposed to be for me or not... hmm......
Update (20 March 2012) - Crosslink: Not long after I originally wrote this post, Liz wrote about sending these texts out.
Update (23 March 2019): To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the "Stay sexy!" text, … -
Nightmare!!!
A (1) nightmare and a (2) just-plain-freaky dream last night. My brain's playing up:
1. Claire and I, older, are in a train. She has a heart attack; I try to get and then, failing that, provide, help, but fail to and she dies. Then I woke up.
2. Strange semi-futuristic post-apocalyptic world, reminiscent of The Postman … -
Dan, A Vamp Babe, And A Tarantula
This picture just appeared on the new May Ball site.
Yes; it's me, tied to a wooden board by a vampire babe, stripped of my tux, and being scampered around on by a tarantula.
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PHP 5 RC1
Terribly geeky I know, but I find it awfully exciting: PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 was released today. PHP 5 can now be considered feature-complete, and mostly stable. If only the program I'm writing with it could be considered the same...
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A Week Less Busy
Phew. Survived running the tech. support side of the Student Skills Competition. Winners were mostly what I'd have expected. The technical side all went pretty much to plan, albeit with a lot of stress, mostly caused by teams bring in presentations on CDs etc. at the last miunute, and expecting me to be able to …