Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Hello 2013: Goodbye 2012
In a belated blog post, Dan looks back on 2012, and describes it as one of the hardest years of his life.
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Counterfeit Monkey
Earlier this year, Dan played Emily Short's latest interactive fiction game, Counterfeit Monkey, and decided that it was among the best games of its type that he's played in years. You should play it, too.
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Phone Security == Computer Security
Dan gets paranoid and despairs about the ease with which mobile devices can be stolen, the wealth of personal information stored on them, and the under-use of readily-available encryption tools.
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The Snip, Part 2
Dan is rendered sterile, and takes a picture of the removed parts of his vas deferens to share with you, along with his write-up of the entire procedure. Aren't you lucky.
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Oxford Under Water
Parts of Oxford have flooded, making it difficult for Dan to cycle to work. Difficult... but not impossible! Wellies on, Dan sets out into the disaster zone.
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The Snip, Part 1
It's been a long time coming, but next week, after years of promising, Dan is finally going to put his genitals where his mouth is and get himself a vasectomy. Here's why...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Three Films I'd Watch (if anybody made them)
Dan pitches three movie ideas: "Knights of the Living Dead" (a twisted form of the Arthurian legends, with zombies), "My Daughter's Hand" (a story of love, homophobia, and family), and "The Bone Wars" (a dramatisation of the real-life rivalry of two of the Victorian era's most-famous palaeontologists).