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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SiteFinder: Mark Two
[this post was damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has not been possible to recover it]
[further fragments of this post were recovered on 12 October 2018]
If you've been reading this blog since September-ish, you'll remember when I had about a week of ranting about the VeriSign/SiteFinder lark: this was … -
I Love Orange; Orange Love Me; We’re Like A Happy Family
Orange phoned me up today and told me that they'd like to give me £4/month off my bill for the next 12 months. Nice.
The lovely lady on the other end of the phone then helped redefine my contract to something far better suited to my actual usage pattern, in a move that ought to save … -
CV Of George Bush
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This one's doing the rounds of the internet, but it made me smile so I'm posting it here...
RESUME - GEORGE W. BUSH
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
LAW ENFORCEMENT:
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The Internet Is A World Of Ends
Got a spare quarter hour? I think you should go and read WorldOfEnds.com. It's a fascinating and concise analysis of what is the nature of internet, and why why should stop making mistakes with it.
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Like A Sheep; Following My Friends
My friend Jen has done one of those god-awful survey thingies where you supposedly reveal yourself better to your friends, on her blog. Not one to miss out, I'm going to do it, too... I'll be skipping a few of the more boring questions and adding a couple more...
1. BASICS:
FULL NAME: Daniel Huntley
SEX: Male
BIRTHDAY: 8th … -
Safer Internet Day
Today is European Safer Internet Day.
Does that mean that all those idiots who fell for the MyDoom virus (which, of course, required you to open a ZIP file inside the infected e-mail, the run the program inside it - yet still became the fastest-spreading e-mail virus to date) are going to actually plug their brains … -
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!
[this post was lost during a server failure on 11 July 2004; it was partially recovered on 13 October 2018]
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!
Here's a brief … -
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!!!