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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Answer These With Song Titles…
Alec has a thing going on his blog where he's challenging people to answer questions about themselves in terms of song titles. Go have a look, see my response, and have a go yourself, here.
Went to Booker Cash & Carry this afternoon, and bought just over 3kg of Sherbert Lemons and a little less of … -
Amusing Line From The Python Manual
Attempts to pickle unpicklable objects will raise the PicklingError exception.
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Burger King Love Us
A new-looking manager (young, with a shiny badge) is making Changes at the Burger King around the corner from us. From Monday, the entire restaurant will become No Smoking (yay!), and the old upstairs toilets - once closed owing to vandalism - have been re-opened. Claire and I were in there this evening, discussing our …
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Space Mutiny!
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Not the worst film I've ever seen (fourth worst film in the world, according to the IMDB), and seeing it as the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version only made it funnier in it's stupidity!
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Handles; Life; And Grabbing The Latter By The Former
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Oh yeh - we went to Brum on Saturday, but Bryn tells that story far better than I did, with all of it's visiting Scottish girlfriends, fallen trees (and phone lines), visits to Newtown McDonalds, and enormous … -
Dodge!
Go play this little DHTML game. Can you beat my 'survival time' of 24.593 seconds?
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How To Make Piracy Legal; Nobody Loses; Everybody Gains
The Register brings a report about Harvard University Professor Terry Fisher's plan to make piracy pay for itself. Not by making it yet more illegal, but by stopping it from being immoral. Go read the article. It's great.
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Final Exam, And What I Will Be Answering
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My final exam is in nine and a bit hours time. It's on "Implementing The Information Society", the 'fluffiest' module in the entire Computer Science department. … -
Make It Snow!
It's snowing!!!
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How Would Sian Feel About This?
Here's a conundrum. Based on prior conversations, I've concluded that Sian is against the idea of genetic modification of plants etc. I've never really agreed with her on this - although I can see her reasons.
As a member of Amnesty International, it's safe to assume, then, that she's also not in favour of landmines. I'd … -
Windows For The Welsh
Just as Bryn is making progress with his translations of parts of Linux, Microsoft announce plans to release a Welsh edition on Windows XP [The Reg]. It's a funny old world, isn't it.
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Busy Days
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Yay! I won an eBay auction for a copy of Everyway. For £4! Yay! Winner! Now all I need are some friends, some paper, some pencils, … -
Alone, And With…
People who are in on the Secret Of The Jukebox will be delighted to hear that I've had a good long hack at it tonight (hence it being 4:30am) and I've managed to get heaps done and ready for Paul to break test, including but not limited to the new "Alone, And With..." engine, which …
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And You Thought Adam Was Difficult When He Was Drunk…
Do you remember a few weeks ago, when Strokey Adam came around drunk? Well, it turns out it could have been a lot worse - see this news report about what drunken elephants can get up to [BBC].
My Internet: Architecture And Operation exam went well this morning. I could waffle on about Aggregatable Global Unicast … -
For Sale: Wireless Network Cable
This auction on eBay Germany (you can use Babel Fish to translate it if you like) seems to be trying to sell a Wireless Network Cable.
(and, for the benefit of Adam, who won't 'get' it: a wireless network, being wireless, doesn't have cables - this is geek humour that even you can understand)