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Just Plain Weird; And Other Observations About The World
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[more of this post was recovered on Friday 24 November 2017]
This is just plain weird. How to perform a fecalectomy on a keyring.
I've got some damn cool new board … -
Dissertation Hand-In
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I handed in my dissertation yesterday. What a farce. Here's the approximate order of things.
08:30 - Get up. Compile a postscript (.ps) copy of my dissertation, and upload both … -
Wargames As Public Acceptance
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There's a lot of defence for wargames, as Command & Conquer: Generals to see how far this can be … -
MY DISSERTATION IS DONE!
At long last, after many nights (and days) slog, my dissertation is done. Enormous thanks to everybody who provided feedback to the developmental copies (don't make any more comments now, 'cos I've "gone gold" with it). Tomorrow I hand it in and I'm rid of it forever, yay!!!
I'm actually not as happy with it as … -
Dissertation Proofreaders Needed
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I'm looking for help proofreading my dissertation. If you've been invited to, or you'd like to help, please go to https://danq.me/diss/, download the latest version, and post any comments … -
Oh! You’re Going To Malawi? While You’re There, Pick Me Up Some AA Batteries…
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As most of my readers will probably be aware, I'll later this year be cycling around Malawi as a sponsored stunt with Cycle Tracks: "A Truly Charitable Bike Ride … -
More Celebrations
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[chez geek card]
Yay. Now I'm in a fab bouncey mood and ready to crack on with the next 10,000 words of my dissertation.
People have kindly been offering to proof-read … -
Last Night’s Dream
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Last night's dream was somewhat weird. Like so many of mine:
I'm travelling by train with Claire. We're going to … -
Futurama’s Coming Back
Okay, it's not certain yet, but Wired News reports that it, and Family Guy (also killed by Fox) will make a comeback on Cartoon Network, with new episodes sponsored by the channel.
Yay. And, indeed, hey.
And in other news, to celebrate the change of name from Lindows to Linspire, Lindows.com are giving away copies of Linspire. … -
A Demonstration Of The Next Generation Of ‘Phishing’ Attacks
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If you've been on the internet for any length of time at all, you'll probably have come across the concept of a … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, One Wall
After the success of yesterday's run, today I was exhausted. The weather was horrific, and we found ourselves having to pedal hard to get DOWNhill.
On my account, we had to take several extended breaks, which had us arrive in Stornoway, isle of Lewis, half an hour outside of our target window. I just collasped into … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, One Wall
You get to your third day of an exercise that your body isn't used to and you hit the wall: the point at which your body runs out of all it's immediate sources of energy and has to start the complicated chemical reactions that break down fat into sugars.
You know this has happened because suddenly … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, Six Islands
Farmer at Berneray warned us that Stornoway, where we'd be tomorrow night, was a bed of sin, with young people drinking at taking drugs (this is a town barely larger, and more isolated, than Aberystwyth). He'd lived his entire life on this tiny island, and knew everybody on it, and it therefore stood to reason …
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Two Men, Two Bikes, Six Islands
Just wrote a fantastic piece about the islands we visited on our second day's cycling only to have this shitty device eat it. So here's a summarry:
Barra - small. Cycled over mountain, took ferry North.
Eriskay - tiny fishing community.
South Uist - long, flat, full of highland cattle and sheep. Heavily Catholic.
Benbecula - picturesque.
North Uist - … -
Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mission
The keyboard on this tacky little GPRS device is crap, and I just lost this entire entry to bad user interface design (if you press the biggest button on the device, it throws it all away):
My dad and I drove to Glasgow, arriving this morning at about 2am. Then, up at 8am for the first …