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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Banks
It seems that NatWest now only open during the hours at which I am at work. Yet somehow I'm expected to deposit my paycheque. This makes no sense.
Mostly, I've been watching Futurama and drinking good beer. On Saturday, Claire and I went up to a forest North of Dolgellau and ate sandwiches and failed to … -
Science Graduates Earn More, Live Longer, Smoke Less
This report by the BBC, published yesterday, gives evidence that we science/engineering graduates live longer than our artsy opposite numbers. Made my day.
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Helpless - Post Script
Yawny morning.
Got to sleep eventually. Basically, my friend's problems can't be solved by anybody but themselves. I'm going to offer to be there, be supportive, and to help them in any way they can, but in the end, what's troubling them can't be solved by anybody else. Will try to get a chance to speak … -
Helpless
I can't sleep.
For the last week or so, I've talked a little every day or two with a really good friend of mine who is, unfortunately, going through some problems at the moment. They'd been quite understating and evasive about talking about them at length until yesterday, when they suddenly revealed to me quite how … -
Grindstone
Claire called me up at work to taunt me about the fact that I'm working late. Well; okay, she didn't, but she night as well have, because I'm still at the office, slogging away at a chunk of Bovini for a deadline tomorrow, not making much progress, and I only spoke to the client earlier …
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Idea Of The Day From Alex And Dan I
Wouldn't the world be so much better a place if Brits had to go through some kind of vetting procedure - a test of sorts - before they were permitted to go on holiday to Ibiza?
An example extract from an interview might be:
Interviewer : Question twelve: if you were to be granted passage to go … -
Andy’s Party And Other Happenings Up North
This is my third and final attempt to write this journal entry without something terrible happing that causes me to lose it in it's entirety.
Spent a long weekend (Friday to Tuesday) in the North-West of England, firstly at Andy's party, then later visiting my folks in Preston, with Claire. Details follow...
ANDY'S PARTY
The weekend started at … -
Safe Road Use Of Elephants
Aside from the main point of this article, I found it most amusing to find that state-run Indian elephants are fitted with reflectors 'in an attempt to prevent road accidents'. What does it take to accidentally crash into an elephant?
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Thursday Afternoon
Good progress at work today, easily catching up on the things I didn't get done yesterday on account of having been at the Royal Welsh Show.
AbNib is proving itself popular, but I'm still not happy with it: there are a load of really cool features I'd like to add, yet. But that's a job for … -
Royal Welsh Show
I'm writing this from the (badly-protected: just had to go to a page with a particularly funky JavaScript to break out of their front-end browser) BBC Wales bus at the Royal Welsh Show, where Alex and I are working on behalf of SmartData.
Suppose I'd better get back to work and let these kiddies have the … -
AbNib
I'm almost ready to launch AbNib (main site may be down during development, but try the temporary mirror), a site dedicated to the weblogs of Aberites: people who live in or love Aberystwyth.
There are some funky new and cool features to come. But this is a weblog-community in the making.
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AbNib
As this article from the BBC and this article on icWales states,Aberystwyth is getting a sex shop (you can confirm it for yourselves by checking the pink banner at the top of the official web site.
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De Funk?
I've been celebrating my new-found freedom [removed link] by letting myself post to De's forums. For those of you who aren't following this little campaign, I really hurt him about a year ago, and he decided to hate me but not tell me why, and asked me not to contact him. So I didn't, until …
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Uninteresting Blogging
I really hate uninteresting blogs. The kind which consists of a single entry every week or two, and every time it states "Sorry I haven't made any updates recently. (insert excuse here) I've not been up to much recently anyway." Every week! Sad but true.
That rant aside, here's a fantastic example of exactly what I'm … -
Dark Side Of The Moon
Spent last night in a dark room with Paul, Kit and Claire, listening to a DTS-encoded 5.1 surround sound version of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon". It was the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long while. The sound quality was unbelievable - the patterns moved and shifted around and through us. …