Kind: Articles
Traditional long form content: a post with an explicit title and body.
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Remember Go Ape?
When we went to Go Ape at the tail end of Ruth & JTA's Stag/Hen Weekend party, we had no idea that we'd have such an impact on one little girl as we evidently did. Maybe we should dress as superheroes when we go to Go Ape next time (in March!), too...
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The Week of Balls
Dan says the word "balls" a lot, statistically speaking, as he deals with a broken boiler (at home) and a disfunctional server (at work).
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Finding my Geographic Centre
What do you get if you take the average location between all of the places you've ever lived? Dan tried this, and it turns out that his geographical centre point is only a quarter hour's drive away from where his parents live, even without weighting. How will it be affected by his house move, later this year?
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Roadspotters
Dan learns about the way that road numbers are organised around the UK and speculates about the existence of a new kind of nerd, the "roadspotter". And then, a short Internet search later, realises that this unusually hobby actually exists...
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Free Deed Poll Generator
Generate yourself a legally-valid UK deed poll to change your name... completely free! A new, open-source project by Dan makes and a web site that anybody can use makes it easy to change your legal name.
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Mr. Smith's Robbery
Dan shares a story about a man who's robbed at gunpoint, and then speaks his mind about the recent case of a false accusation of rape by a schoolgirl in Cheltenham.
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Fox News on IPv6
Journalists continue to misrepresent and generally fuck up the public's understanding of the future of the Internet, and Dan simply can't help himself but to try to put them right.
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Puppy Eating Time
Dan puts his foot in his mouth, and makes it sound like he was considering putting his boss's new pet puppy in there, too. But then everything turns out better than expected.
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Argh, It Burns! Night
The Earthlings celebrate Burns Night in their own special way, with readings of the worst fan fiction they could find in a competition to find the worst examples of the genre to exist anywhere.
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Mobile One-Time-Passwords in Ruby
A Ruby-based implementation of the Mobile One-Time-Password system, providing two-factor authentication for Rails applications, among other things.
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Copy-Pasting Passwords into Steam
Valve are running a security theatre by pretending that a "feature" in Steam provides protection, when in actual fact it simply makes things harder for users with good security sense. Here's how to circumvent the feature, as well as some tips on great password safe programs.
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New Look, New Protocols
This website's been updated with a shiny new theme and an exciting (well, if you're a geek) new IPv6 address. Read more about the changes here and let Dan know what you think by leaving a comment.
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Ask for What You Want
There's a psychological concept called the anchoring effect. If you apply it to successful polyamorous relationship strategies, you get an unpleasant result. Dan justifies how he ignores that result.
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They Say that Programmers Never Die
Dan writes poetry using programming languages, and wonders whether or not any of the code he's written in his life, thus far, will outlive him.
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As an Aquarius, I'm shocked...
In the wake of Facebook and the rest of the Internet going crazy over a possible discrepancy in the interpretation of star signs, Dan is glad that his self-made certificate still shows that he's an Aquarius.