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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Timewasting
Look what I found while I was wasting time on the 'net this morning.
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Pathetic Motorways
I kid you not - there's a web site dedicated to the pathetic motorways of the United Kingdom, with reasons why they've been nominated as pathetic, photographs, maps, and the history of each road. Perhaps the oddest site you'll see all day.
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Edge of darkness
This repost was published in hindsight, on 22 March 2019.
Kit wrote:
A day of energy and focus. Paul and I hacking through stuff, fixing, tweaking, making work, prodding, pushing.
Its a slick operation. Paul and I discuss bugs and problems, mark them up on a whiteboard on the wall (installed for the purpose) and clear off … -
Fiona
It's been a long time since I've seen Kit so happy.
I've never seen Kit so loved-up.
Aren't humans interesting?
This blog post was later featured in an On This Day revisit, in a blog post in 2010. -
Caffienation
A week of no more than 5½ hours sleep a night led me to caffeination as an aid to get any work done, this week. It's kept me awake to work, but has made me feel weird and unwell, and last night, OD'd, had me get excessively paranoid and curl up into a crying lump …
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The Most Terrifying Thing A Web Developer Will Ever See
Want to see something quite terrifying: DHTML Lemmings. I kid you not - this is scary shit, particularly when you realise that it's all being done client-side, using script, over the web: no Flash, no Applets, no ActiveX <spits> - just pure unadulterated CSS and JavaScript. I got scared.
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Beach Party Gone Bad
We walked back over the dunes from Ynyslas beach. I lead the way, planning to reach the car, drop off my bags, then go back and help Kit and Paul, who were struggling with most of the remaining barbeque gear. A few minutes behind me was Claire, and a few minutes behind her, Fiona, a …
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Online Banking
NatWest phoned me today in response to my complaint the other day that their online banking service refused to support Opera, my web browser of choice, seemingly for no good reason. I threatened to take my account elsewhere. Regardless, they've promised to look into it and try to make the site Opera-compatible, and I've said …
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Sand and seawater
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Claire wrote:
Got up late, and spent the day on Ynyslas beach (A small town North of Aberystwyth, on the coast) with Paul, Kit, Fiona (Kit's new girlfriend, as I'm sure he will relate in his next entry) and Dan. The water was warm, if a … -
Chilli!
As Kit relates, too, we made a fab chilli con carne (and, using Quorn mince, a 'chilli non carne' for Paul). Recipe as below (feel free to steal, adapt etc.):
AUGUST CHILLI
serves 8
1 225g tin chopped tomato
1 5-portion bottle "sundried tomato" pasta sauce
4 medium tomatoes, thinly sliced
1 tube double concentrate tomato paste
1 tube chilli paste
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Reb Leaves The Country!
It turns out that Reb (my ex-) was trying to get in touch with me to tell me that she was leaving the country: she'd decided on Saturday night that she wanted to tell me that today (Tuesday) she'd be leaving the UK to go and work for six months in Benidorm, returning for a …
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Eventful
Been excessively busy this last week: lots and lots of work. Pulled a 16-and-a-half hour work day on Wednesday, fixing the entire network where my co-workers were unable to. It's a lot nicer now. In other news, I won an eBay auction for a copy of the 1974 edition of Parker Games "Careers" board game, …
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A Vasectospectacular Mistake
So this Brazillian man with a ear infection goes in for surgery, and, as a result of his sore ear, mis-hears the name announced in the doctor's waiting room, and accidentality gets a vasectomy.
What? Didn't he think anything of it when the doctor applied a local anaesthetic to the area under his balls and produced … -
Dating Agency Stupidity
I saw this dating site today (don't ask how I came across that in my daily webtrawl)... the page in question has two major flaws:
1. Why would a dating company offer a "lifetime membership"? If they were truly any good at what they did - i.e. matchmaking - then shouldn't you not-need to be a … -
Plague
It's contagious! I have a dull ache in my head and a mild nausea.
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