Kind: Articles
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Rearing Of The Ugly Head, And Apache’s Dirty Secrets
Thank you to Faye for pointing out that Reb (you know, the girl I was going out with for a couple of years a few years back) has posted a comment to my blog. That's cool - I didn't know she read Scatmania...
...hang on, wait a minute - she probably doesn't read Scatmania... hmm... <checks … -
Software Projects In The Context Of Swings
Eons old, but I rediscovered it today while tidying up my hard drive, so I thought I'd share it with you all:
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Parallel Parking For Dummies
Have a go at the parallel parking game - let's so how good you lot are. I've managed to beat the rest of the folks at work with a stunning score of 87.72, parking in 5.7 seconds flat... not bad for the only non-driver!
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Scaring Creditors
Following up my earlier post on my financial situation and the various stresses it was causing me, comes better news. I had a conversation today with Direct Legal & Collections - one of my happy little creditors, which I'd been dreading, but it actually went far better than I'd have hoped... I think I scared …
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Money, Money, Money (Or The Lack Thereof)
A thought for current undergrads - do not underestimate the size of your debt. As a newly-graduate, I've had the oppertunity to step back and look at the size of my debt... or; to put it another way - the amount my income will be sapped for the next quarter of my life.
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God Violates Intel Trademark
It's all news, today! Lots of fascinating little stories and nothing about me. I mean, who's blog is it anyway?
According to The Register, the authoritive source on such matters, God may have infringed upon Intel's intellectual property. Only moderately funny, but nice and geeky.
In other news, I hear that AMD are planning to release a … -
Singing Flowers
Remember those silly plastic flowers that danced? Well, here's the next inevitable step: a Japanese inventor has developed a device that can be buried in a plant pot and uses vibration to cause the leaves of plant therein to oscillate as speakers.
Grow your own speakers. Yay.
Personally, I'd have far too much fun burying such a … -
Reb, Hell, And Unreal Tournament 2004
After I saw Faye's weblog post about her own design for hell, I couldn't help but leave an anonymous comment. If you've ever met Reb, my ex-girlfriend from a few years back, perhaps you'll appreciate.
In other news, I spent far too much of the weekend playing the demo of Unreal Tournament 2004. I haven't had … -
Scatmania, Version 2
Welcome to Scatmania, Version 2!
After my disasterous data loss the other day, I decided to take the oppertunity to redesign Scatmania into something altogether better-suited to the purpose (i.e. doesn't use a silly flat-file system). And here it is (well; unless you're reading this through LiveJournal).
I'll be graduating this afternoon, which will mostly involve standing … -
Scatmania.org Coming Back
Yay!
However, working from backups, I have no record of posts ocurring between Sat 29th Nov 2003 at 4:08 pm, and Tue 2nd Jan 2004 at 01:33 pm, when my blog started posting duplicates LiveJournal, too. Even there, I don't have a backup of anything but what LiveJournal has.
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Suz. And Naivety.
Just been having on online chat with Suz:
(15:53:41) Dan: It [an online weather forecast on a web site I run] says we should expect a wet weekend, clearing up for an overcast week.
(15:53:54) Suz: and who puts it on the web site?
(15:53:59) Dan: The BBC.
(15:53:59) Suz: i always thought it was paul
(15:54:02) Suz: oh
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Photos From Malawi
[this post was lost during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004]
[an image in this post was recovered on Thursday 30th December 2004]
Here's some photos of my trip to Malawi, as the group have now started uploading photos to me at last!
Dan looks down on Lake Malawi.
Dan on the descent.
Two baboons, at Vwasa National … -
Live Music, Anyone?
Sounds like an excuse to lounge on soggy grass and drink real ale if ever I heard one. Yay....
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How To Make Invisibility Paint
(shamelessly stolen from http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/sbos18.htm)
How To Make Invisibility Paint
If you put invisibility paint on anything, it turns it invisible. Here's how to make invisibility paint:
Start by taking a large tin, which must be able to hold enough paint to fill it. Take one ordinary apple (or, if you don't have an ordinary apple, a doughnut-shaped one). … -
Lariam Dream The Fifth
[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]
[more of this post was recovered on Friday 24 November 2017]
Wierder than all the rest, this dream's insane. Perhaps it's time to be thankful that I only remember fragments …