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Easter Egg Hunting, Gravity Hooking, and Geocachers You Might Know
This afternoon, like last year, we took the opportunity to spend Easter Sunday hiding one another's Easter eggs in the woods and then running around looking for them.
For some reason, this year Rory didn't want me to be responsible for hiding his egg (something to do with his eventually being found up a tree, last … -
The 17 Blog Posts That Weren't
It may come as a surprise to you that the stuff I write about on my blog - whether about technology, dreams, food, film, games, relationships, or my life in general - isn't actually always written off-the-cuff. To the contrary, sometimes a post is edited and re-edited over the course of weeks or months before …
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Dan's April Fools' Jokes This Year
After JTA and I's monster plan for a great April Fools' joke got rained-off this year (maybe another year), I just had to go ahead with two smaller April Fools' gags this year.
The Photocopier Prank
A nice simple joke at the expense of the people in the office building I work in (and far less complex … -
Nostalgia Isn't What It Used To Be
It's been a bit of a day for nostalgia. It started even before I woke up, when I was dreaming about an argument that could have marked the end of Claire and I's relationship, if it weren't for the fact that it didn't even slighly represent the actual circumstances of our seperation (I'll spare you …
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Dave!!! Highlights From Robin's Birthday
Right now, I'm out in Oxfordshire for this a "code week" - a get-together for the purpose of hacking some code together - for the Three Rings project. That's got nothing to do with this post, but helps to offer a framing device by which I can explain why I was in such proximity to …
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Water
My house is full of it. This isn't good.
Much thanks to Welsh Water, where a friendly man talked me through the quirks in my stop tap (who'd have thought that it would be so hard to turn a tap off and drain a system). Now I suppose I ought to start mopping. Then I suppose … -
Macclesfield
Last weekend, I found myself in Macclesfield to celebrate the engagement of Liz and Simon. Highlights in brief included:
Board games with the happy couple and their friends, as well as the Aberites who were present. Just like old-school Geek Nights.
Liz & Simon's awesome new house. Also, their cats, one of whom … -
"I'm sure we've got the budget for a copy of Firefox."
Today, I had to explain to somebody that Mozilla Firefox is free*.
Let me elaborate slightly. Today, I had to explain to an IT professional that Mozilla Firefox is free.
Let me go a tiny bit further. Today, I had to explain to an IT professional with decades of experience, working for an very large government-funded body, … -
One-Time Pad In Javascript
A few months ago, I spent one lunchtime writing a One-Time Pad Encryption/Decryption Engine in Javascript. I'd meant to blog about it at the time, but I forgot, but I came across it again today and thought it was cool enough to share with you all.
If you already appreciate why that's cool, go play with … -
Geocaching
Kit and Fiona came down to Aberystwyth to visit the other week for the first time in ages, and - as Paul already wrote - they made the mistake of introducing everybody down here to the phenomenon known as geocaching.
For those who've not heard about it before, geocaching is often described as "a global game … -
Murder... In Space!
Friday night was Murder... In Space!, our most recent murder mystery party. This is the second of our murder mystery nights that I've been the author of (the first one was Murder In The Reign Of Terror), and I took a lot of what I learned from the experience of writing and co-hosting of that …
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SuperGenPass In MicroB On The Nokia N900/Maemo
In the unlikely event that I'm not the only person who uses SuperGenPass to manage my passwords and MicroB on Maemo on my Nokia N900, here's a few tips that I thought I'd share (they're also valid on the N800 and N810 and "hacker edition" N770s, too, I expect):
You don't have a Bookmarks … -
Late For The Altar
Yesterday, I didn't go to a wedding.
Act One - Not Going To A Wedding
The wedding was Andy and Siâns, of course, and they got married yesterday in Cardiff. Unfortunately, Ruth, JTA and I's plans to go down there were conspired against by the combined forces of all of the worst luck imaginable. Allow me to … -
Smell Of Gas
The other evening, I was woken (yes, I was asleep at 6pm, might blog about why that was on a later date) by a man from one of the energy companies trying to get me to consider changing my gas supply to them. I'm not keen on door-to-door sales at the best of times, which, …
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Nokia N900
I've just got myself a new mobile phone, and I thought I'd spend a moment to gloat about some of it's more awesome features (and mutter under my breath about a few of the things that are less-fabulous about it).
So, my new phone is a Nokia N900. You're not likely to have seen many of …