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Category: Personal

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    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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    • posted 21 November, 2012
  • Long-tongued cow.

    Long tongue! [x-post /r/funny]

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    • posted 16 November, 2012
  • Checking the timetable while I wait for inspiration to strike me about what to say about the "engagement" responsibilities of a Three Rings Administrator.

    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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    • posted 15 November, 2012
  • Maybe I'm just being a whole-wit, but I don't understand this Double Earth thing. ELI10.

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    • posted 14 November, 2012
  • It's that time of year again when I like to decorate eggs. Because fuck you, calendar.

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    • posted 13 November, 2012
  • @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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    • posted 7 November, 2012
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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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    • posted 6 November, 2012
  • 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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    • posted 5 November, 2012
  • A close-up of my dad's Will, showing where it was clearly re-stapled.

    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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    • posted 4 November, 2012
  • 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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    • posted 2 November, 2012
  • STD cupcakes

    STD Cupcakes: diagnose yourself while you eat!

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    • posted 27 October, 2012
  • You are a target. Your password is weak. Attacks are on the rise. You can protect yourself.

    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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    • 1 comment
    • posted 26 October, 2012
  • Looper.

    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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    • posted 17 October, 2012
  • Lucy 173's birthday is in 13/1 days.

    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.

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 9 October, 2012
  • Review of FTL: Faster Than Light

    This review originally appeared on Steam. See more reviews by Dan. FTL: Faster Than Light Rating: ๐Ÿ‘ This game is just pure fun. It's not easy, and there's a lot of learning to be done, but it sort-of reminds me of playing NetHack for the first time, if NetHack were set in the Battlestar Galactica โ€ฆ

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    • posted 6 October, 2012

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