Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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My Name Is Me
Dan goes by his full name online, and has a few issues (mostly related to the length and uncommonness of his name). But these are nothing compared to the issued faced by whistleblowers, political activists, transgendered people, teachers and those who work with children, survivors of abuse, authors with pen names, and more, as the world's social networking sites start to implement "real name" policies.
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How Can You Have Any Pudding If You Don't Eat Your Meat?
To those of you that don't know already, I have a confession to make. After years of picking holes in and finding flaws in their various ethical or other arguments and of mocking their dietary choices, I've become... a vegetarian.
Okay, this probably wasn't actually a shock to anybody. Between the observations of the barbeque food … -
A New Sensation
Dan's phone breaks, and even though the damage is minor and repairable, he gets a new one, simply because (a) he loves to get new geeky toys and (b) he thinks that the Universe talks to him through the medium of technical faults. Here's his review of the HTC Sensation, his new phone.
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Instead Of Blogging...
In a declaration of 'blog bankruptcy', Dan lists all of the topics that he'd hoped to have blogged about during the last (very busy!) month, and gets on with writing about other things. He's been busy!
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On This Day In 2003
Dan looks back on the very first time he juggled flaming clubs, and wraps this up in the story of how he learned to juggle in the first place.
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Halloumi & Mushroom Skewers
After trying them at a barbeque the previous week, Dan raves about halloumi and mushroom skewers, which might well now be his favourite barbeque foodstuff.
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First Class Film
Dan watches X-Men: First Class, and spots his office in the background during a part of the film. No; not the part with the battle between the jetfighter and the levitating submarine.
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Spirit of the Century
Dan and the other Earthlings play "Spirit of the Century", a roleplaying game set in the style of the pulp novels of the early 20th century.
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Hash Abnib
Abnib Chat didn't catch on this time around. Dan is unsurprised, but tries to understand the reasons anyway.
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Fonts of the Ancients
Dan adds UTF-8 support to the CMS that powers the Bodleian Libraries' websites, and ponders how he'd justify the scope of Unicode to a (hypothetical) time-traveling scribe from ancient Egypt.
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Seriously? A Scientologist?
In a surprising twist, Dan turns out to be a Scientologist. No, not really. But in a scary conclusion, the Belief-O-Matic thought that it was a possibility.
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Poly and the Census – Part Four
More fun and games in Zoe's quest to get meaningful information out of the Office of National Statistics, about how census data reflects non-monogamous and non-heteronormative relationships.
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My New Pet Hate, part II
Dan shares a screenshot of a screenshot within a screenshot.
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Showing Some Pride
Dan, Paul, and Ruth take part in Oxford Pride, and Dan and Paul are caught at the parade by a reporter and photographer for the Oxford Mail.
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On This Day In 2003
Today is the ninth birthday of Dan's blog on scatmania.org. Okay, okay, so he's actually been blogging in some form or another for almost four years longer than this, but it's still cool, however you look at it.