Blog
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Elemental haiku
Chlorine
Low road or high road?
World War I. Gas in trenches.
Or salt shared, tears shed.
Science Magazine
A haiku for every element on the periodic table up to atomic weight 103, and also one for the as-yet-unsynthesised ununennium, I especially like magnesium's. -
Ending on a High
Dan marks the New Year by climbing Ben Nevis.
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2004 called, @virginmedia. They asked me to remind you that maximum password lengths and prohibiting pasting makes your security worse, not better.
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"All #boardgames can be legacy games if you want it enough!" - @fleeblewidget, after drunkenly stumbling upon @thegodzillagirl's label maker. -
Fixing Social Media
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Summit of Ben Nevis with Robin (on almost the shortest day of the year) to finish off his 52 Reflect project. -
Found GCG6XD Britain's highest Geocache
This checkin to GCG6XD Britain's highest Geocache reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found today at 11:30 with Robin, whose ascent marked his final expedition this year as part of his 52reflect.com project. I've been up here many, many times before since this cache was placed (and some before) but …
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Making single color SVG icons work in dark mode
In a project I work on, we had a couple of buttons that consisted of just icons (with visually hidden help text). The awesome QA engineer I worked with, found some of those did not show up in dark mode, which rendered the buttons unusable for users of that mode. Using inline SVGs with currentColor …
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So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today...
So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.
They were in a cardboard box. And … -
How did our parents cope with just I-spy and 99 green bottles on -hour journeys? This is definitely the way to hypnotise kids in the car! -
Additional Processors
Computerphile
Computerphile at its best, here tackling the topic of additional (supplementary) processors, like FPUs, GPUs, sound processors, etc., to which CPUs outsource some of their work under specific circumstances. Even speaking as somebody who's upgraded a 386/SX to a 386/DX through the addition of a "math co-processor" (an FPU) and seeing the benefit … -
An Honest Stock Market Update
NEW YORK -- Stocks gained momentum on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up 48 points, reversing losses from last week's decline.
Experts hailed both moves as a "remarkable, textbook example of pure statistical chance," chalking up Monday's gains to a couple random marginal buyers being slightly more motivated than a few random marginal sellers.
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100 Years of Periods
Allure (YouTube)
Bitesize introduction to the (mostly-unspoken) history of the last century of sanitary products. It wasn't so long ago - still within living memory! - that doctors' advice was not to exercise during your period and that sanitary products had to be packaged in plain containers so as not to embarrass buyers nor … -
Brixton To Brighton By Boris Bike
The Boris bike is a magical creature – aptly named after the former mayor of London ‘Boris Johnson’. I say aptly because the bikes are heavy, chunky, provide the absolute bear minimum service and they are expensive to the public.
At £2 per half hour and with 55 miles ahead of us this was ultimately a … -
No, @NetflixUK, I don't want you to WhatsApp me. I never want you WhatsApp me. Why do you ask me every time? No means no.