Category: Personal
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From the Collection: Blissymbolics
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Blissymbolics was conceived by Austro-Hungarian expatriate Charles K. Bliss (1897–1985), born Karl Kasiel Blitz to a Jewish family in the town of Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi in modern-day Ukraine). He was introduced to signs and symbols at an early age in the form of circuit diagrams – his father’s many occupations included mechanic and electrician – … -
Still Blogging in 2017
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On a blog, I can write about blogging and whimsically toss in self-indulgent pictures of May’s budding azaleas.
I can end my career, right here, in a flash. I can rant about the perfidy and corruption of my local governing party, who I devoutly hope are about to be turfed … -
Lingering
Invisible Bread
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20 Years Of Blogging
Come next week, Dan will have been blogging for 20 years. A lightweight retrospective.
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Reply to Hardware Issue - when did hard drive space get like this?
Hardware Issue (Aquarionics) So, I am a professional system administrator. It says it on my business cards and everything. Every couple of months, when I have to explain to the receptionist at the London office that yes, I do work here, and so Nicholas Avenell (Aquarionics) wrote:
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@adactio: The ampersand in https://adactio.com/notes/14395 isn't being properly escaped in your RSS feed...
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The Scrotum Is Nuts
Why are testicles kept in a vulnerable dangling sac? It’s not why you think.
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Some of you may be thinking that there is a simple answer: temperature. This arrangement evolved to keep them cool. I thought so, too, and assumed that a quick glimpse at the scientific literature would reveal the biological reasons and I’d move … -
Story: Trophy
Another monologue… This time from a suggestion of “Trophy”:
It’s weird, right? Stressing over something so small. I mean, it shouldn’t be that big a deal, but it is. It’s my trophy. I won it. I put in the hours and effort, I sacrificed for it, it’s mine.
I mean, she doesn’t even want it. She said … -
Digest for September 2018
Summary
This month's blog activity was mostly dominated by 360° photos taken with my new camera, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. I also had to archive two geocaches, Oxford's Wild Wolf One and Two, as they'd been getting muggled/vandalised. I also shared a fabulous reinterpretation of Who's On First? for the post-post-modern society.
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Once you're doing with adding #indieweb awesome to your website, @henrahmagix, you might like to add an RSS feed so people like me can subscribe! In the meantime, I made you a temporary one at https://rssey.danq.me/henryblyth powered by my RSSey tool ( like this: https://github.com/Dan-Q/rssey/blob/master/feeds/henryblyth.js ).
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Oh, go on, one more 360° photo: view from @NuffieldCollege's (library) tower, ten stories above the #Oxford castle quarter.
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One last @NuffieldCollege 360° photo on my lunchtime walk. Cool archway!
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Walking around @NuffieldCollege at lunchtime: love this long pond.
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Lunchtime at @NuffieldCollege gave me another excuse to snap some 360° photos; this one's part of the quad.
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The @bodleianlibs Comms Team Away Day at @NuffieldCollege provides yet another excuse to play with 360° photography.