Blog
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Living In The Future
Google+ Hangouts makes multi-user video conferencing so easy that even Dan's mother can do it. It's like living in the future.
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Webcomics With Puzzles
Dan shares two webcomics that you might like to see, if you enjoy a good puzzle from time to time.
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KeePass for Opera
Dan develops a browser plugin for Opera to allow the KeePass Password Safe to work with Opera 12+, after the Opera team remove the feature upon which many KeePass users depended.
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Domain Name Hacks of 2013
With a plethora of new top-level domains planned to hit the Internet in 2013, Dan proposes a handful of new domain names, then feels sad that this new era might spell the end of "domain hacks", by making them too easy.
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In Europe? Here's the trick I used when Civ 5 was first released to get it a few days early... it'll probably work for Gods & Kings, too.
I've just tried this and it works; thought I'd share my results with you so that any fellow Europeans can give it a go too.
Pre-order the game in your own country (I'm in the UK and bought my copy months and months ago; paid in £)
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Cardless Cashpoints
RBS Group banks now offer the ability to withdraw cash from ATMs without using a bank card, by making the withdrawal request from their mobile app. Dan gives it a go, and shares his thoughts on the process.
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Internetland
In Internetland, everybody has prosopagnosia. That's why it's so important that the people who live there treat their passwords with care. Dan tells a story about Alice, Bob, Eve, and an antiques store.
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Spee Kin Dork Weans Anguish
Darn desk covers eh Anguish languish, you sing eat toucan fusion Hanoi owl office fronds.
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The Signal and the Noise
Dan says nice things about Andy's new album, The Signal and the Noise, and offers to post his "spare" copy to you. Want it?
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AltGeegee!
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TIL that in 1970, British Rail patented the design of fusion-powered interstellar spaceship
British Rail flying saucer
The British Rail flying saucer, officially known simply as space vehicle, was a proposed spacecraft designed by Charles Osmond Frederick.
Purpose
The flying saucer originally started as a proposal for a lifting platform. However, the project was revised and edited, and by the time the patent was filed had become … -
I worry that Facebook is killing meaningful communication.
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Oxford [UK], I am disappoint.
Last year, I saw at least one other person, proudly wearing their towel. This year? Nothing. I even made sure to take a walk out in the glorious sunshine on my lunch break, and didn't find even a single other towel-wearer. What is the world coming to, when you can't even rely on a … -
I'll never be good enough.
I've got chests full of diamonds and a huge fortress of solitude in my singleplayer world. I've found the End Portal and I've got enough eyes to activate it. But why bother? Alone, I don't stand a chance against the Ender Dragon anyway: I'm just not that good a player. And it doesn't matter … -
Alcohol may only be consumed... in a parallel dimension?
AltAlcohol purchased in this motorway service area can not be consumed inside or outside the premises.