Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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A New Keyboard
Dan already owns the best mouse in the world. Maybe it's time for a new keyboard, too. But what's this? Not what he expected, that's for sure...
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Ageism, Nightline, and Counselling
As a trainee counsellor, I've had plenty of opportunity of late for self-analysis and reflection. Sometimes revelations come at unexpected times, as I discovered recently.
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On This Day In 2004
On this day in 2004, Dan finally handed in his dissertation on the subject of Three Rings. Since then, Three Rings has become the de facto standard for University Nightlines, and has also become the most popular rota management system for Samaritans branches and a variety of other helpline charities, too.
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Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
A technique for abusing HTTP 301 redirects and random numbers to uniquely track users; even those who have cookies disabled in their web browsers.
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Star Wars - Machete Order
Ruth, JTA, and Dan watch the Star Wars series in Machete Order - that is, episodes IV, V, II, III, then VI.
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One Hundred And Sixty
Dan reminisces about old mobile phones, text messages, and those 160-character limits we learned to work around. Twitter could learn from this...
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Moving Things Around With CSS Transitions
The "pop-up head" in the top-left hand corner of the page is powered entirely by CSS: no Javascript is used at all. Dan explains how.
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Top of the World
This weekend, Dan's father finally made it to the North Pole, as part of his charity trek, albeit in the form of his cremated ashes being carried by another member of his polar team.
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A New Look
Dan redesigns the theme for scatmania.org, returning to sans-serif fonts and shades of blue... plus a few modern CSS features that he'd wanted to play with...
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Personal Effects
Dan's been working on sorting out his late father's estate and his personal effects. Some people have been helpful; others, less so.
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The Meats I Miss
After a year and a bit of being vegetarian, Dan looks back and considers the things that he misses more or less than he expected from eating meat.
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On This Day in 2040
On this day in 2040, Dan built the Internet Time Portal, and - connecting backwards in time through the Internet - made this one-of-a-kind blog post. Wait, what?
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8-Bit Google Maps
Google Maps have started providing an "8-Bit Edition", with retro-RPG-style map graphics, Dan observes.
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Fetch Quest
Dan muses on the nature of the "fetch quest" in video game RPGs, and how we as a culture may be shaped by them to such a point that they will one day become acceptable in the real world, not just on computer screens. And he plans to take advantage of that fact, when the day comes.
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Searching For A Virgin
GMail's Contacts search surprises Dan by returning an unexpected result. Also, Dan is a beautiful person: his mobile phone says so.