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TIL that minutes before the Halifax Explosion (the largest ever non-nuclear, man-made explosion), a dispatcher named Vince Coleman returned to his station to send a warning telegram, saving 300 lives at the cost of his own.
Patrick Vincent Coleman
Patrick Vincent Coleman (13 March 1872 – 6 December 1917) was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways (formerly the ICR, Intercolonial Railway of Canada) who was killed in the Halifax Explosion, but not before he sent a message to an incoming passenger train to stop out of range of the explosion. Today … -
Days Like Weeks
Dan keeps himself busy with the latest Three Rings release, the Three Rings 10th Birthday Conference, a counselling exam, and the UK Bus Awards. Phew!
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Long tongue! [x-post /r/funny]
AltLong-tongued cow.
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Conference Preparations
Dan is swamped with Three Rings work: even though he's finished working on Milestone: Jethrik, he's being kept busy with preparing for this weekend's Three Rings Conference.
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Maybe I'm just being a whole-wit, but I don't understand this Double Earth thing. ELI10.
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It's that time of year again when I like to decorate eggs. Because fuck you, calendar.
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@ajphillips After last week's #Zonomi DDoS, @3RingsLtd started using Route 53 on @AWSCloud as 'extra' DNS servers. Still up: must've worked!
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Craziest Internet Explorer Bug Ever?
Dan discovers a crazy little bug in Internet Explorer 8 and below, and complains loudly about it. Bloody IE.
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On This Day In 1999
In today's On This Day, Dan looks back on bonfire night of 1999, the crushes of his younger years, and the excitement of a rambling adventure!
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A Broken Oath
You wouldn't have thought it possible to incorrectly witness an oath or affirmation, would you? But somehow, a solicitor that Dan paid did exactly that.
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2 of 4 @rimuhosting #zonomi DNS servers back online (ns2 & ns3). Meanwhile, I'm setting up a manual slave system on @awscloud Route 53.
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STD Cupcakes: diagnose yourself while you eat!
AltSTD cupcakes
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Rave Reviews for Your Password Sucks
After running a breakout session entitled "Your password: how bad guys will steal your identity" at the 2012 UAS Conference, Dan gets rave reviews. Nice.
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A Three-Sentence Review Of Looper
A three-sentence review of Looper, the second-best of the three films in which Bruce Willis travels back in time and encounters a younger version of himself.
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Lucy's Birthday
Dan's ended up really busy again, but he's found time to share a bug in a development version of Three Rings with you.