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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.well-known/feeds
.well-known/feeds is a draft standard by which a site can publicise an OPML-based list of feeds (or other metadata) associated with it, that I literally dreamed-up last night. What do you think?
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Batman's World
I do not claim to have a good explanation nor excuse.
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Posted a note for GC3D6J8 The Leap Year Club
This checkin to GC3D6J8 The Leap Year Club reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Enjoyed solving this puzzle, although possibly not 100% in the way the author intended (I spotted some mathematical quirks that gave me a shortcut/cut down the number of possibilities for matching first and surnames!). Now I …
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Couldn't find GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica
This checkin to GC7Z2J6 Pinsley Wood by Olivia and Jessica reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. No luck here this morning for the geopup and I. The undergrowth has come through incredibly thick your summer, and we had to work hard to hunt in likely locations. (The hint didn't help …
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Found GC5J1PP Badger's First Sett
This checkin to GC5J1PP Badger's First Sett reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Easy find while out on a dog walk. Not been out this side of the wood before! Might have struggled to find the GZ were it not for the remnants of a "geo trail" through the dense …
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Found GC340EG Leslie
This checkin to GC340EG Leslie reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I find myself in Cropredy but once a year, at most, and for the obvious reason. The festival atmosphere, not to mention the hordes of revellers, does not in general bode well for a successful geocaching expedition! But I've …
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Found GC340FP Sanders
This checkin to GC340FP Sanders reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I managed to log most of the local geocaches during last year's Fairport by getting up early each morning (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7), while the other revellers were still nursing their hangovers, but I wasn't able …
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Bottomings
TomSka says sauce and toppings should go under hot dogs. After my initial reaction of shock and horror, I think he might actually be on to something.
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512kb.club
Proud to say that danq.me is the newest site to be admitted into Kev Quirk's 512kb club. Let's keep the web lean!
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RSS Zero isn't the path to RSS Joy
There’s nothing special about reaching Inbox Zero in your feed reader.
It’s not noble nor enlightened to get to the bottom of your “unread” list.
Your 👏 feed 👏 reader 👏 is 👏 not 👏 an 👏 email 👏 client. 👏 -
Better WordPress RSS Feeds
I've been adding bonus features to my blog's RSS feeds for a while now. Wanna hear about them?
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Not the Isle of Man
Ruth and I celebrated our anniversary this week by going to the Isle of Man. Except we never got there and instead Ruth lost her job and I got sick.
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Geohashing expedition 2023-07-27 51 -1
Ruth dropped the dog and I off for a walk to a hashpoint while she collected some shopping.
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Found GCXWEX Villa View
This checkin to GCXWEX Villa View reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found with Ruth after coming out to explore the spectacular Roman villa. We'd supposed to have been out of the Isle of Man celebrating our anniversary, but our 'plane got cancelled, so we've opted for staying at home …
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Short-Term Blogging
Next time you've got something to share or a personal project, why not start a blog?