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  • Off to Cape Town. Don't wait up! โœˆ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 28 October, 2019
  • Makerspace at Oxford Library

    Arrived early for @indiewebcamp #oxford at @oxonlibraries. @garrettc still filling up on coffee.

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    • 5 comments
    • posted 28 September, 2019
  • Aus Artikel von H. Coupin (Different ways of whistling with the fingers), Le Monde 1983

    Prior to the invention of nose-picking by Dr. Edwin Snotter in 1893, a variety of less-effective techniques for the removal of dried nasal mucus were widely practised.

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 10 September, 2019
  • Natalie and Alice at work.

    Can we fix it it? Yes we can! Yet more unusual work by the @BodleianLibs web/digital team (featuring @olearyalice).



     

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    • posted 6 September, 2019
  • Do Not Disturb sign with reasons: Sleeping, Working, Saving the World.

    These three explanations collectively describe quite well what @3RingsCIC and I are doing at @FairlawnsHotel today. ๐Ÿ˜Š

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 1 September, 2019
  • Exhibit of early transatlantic telegraph cable with message implying that it enabled "speed of light" communications.

    My hardware engineering is a little rusty, @ComputerHistory, but wouldn't signals propogate along this copper cable at "only" somewhere between 0.64c and 0.95c, not 1c as you claim?

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    • posted 18 August, 2019
  • Facebook cookies

    Just accepted @Facebook's new cookie policy. ๐Ÿ˜‹ @USENIXSecurity #usesec19

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 15 August, 2019
  • Norwegian Air Boing 787-9 Dreamliner

    My last 36 hours: riding, flying, meeting, queuing, driving, drinking, sleeping...

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 14 August, 2019
  • Annabel and John playing vets

    The 5 year-old and the 2 year-old are playing at running a veterinary surgery (the 5 year-old's department) and animal shelter (the 2 year-old's department)...

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    • posted 3 August, 2019
  • The twins, excited, in the hot tub.

    Heading back by train from a holiday in Derbyshire with @bornvulcan, @Crusty_Twobags, @fleeblewidget, @TheGodzillaGirl, @LadyJemma_, @Andrewsean85, and others. This trip must have been under some kind of curse...

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 31 July, 2019
  • Annabel repairing her mother's computer.

    Dan instructs a 5 year-old in diagnosing and replacing a blown PSU in her mother's computer.

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 18 July, 2019
  • Annabel stomps a rocket launcher.

    Dan helps a 5 year-old launch stomp rockets to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch.

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 16 July, 2019
  • DanQ.me scoring 100/100 in all four Lighthouse categories

    #TodayILearned that if you get a perfect 100-100-100-100 + #PWA score from @Google's site performance/accessibility/best practice/SEO tool "@____lighthouse" then you're treated to an animated fireworks display alongside your scores. (Yes, this is for danq.me.)

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 6 July, 2019
  • A hundred zucks

    In the remote chance that @Facebook's #LibraCoin takes off, I suggest that the appropriate slang term for the currency shall be zucks. As in: "I'll bet you a hundred zucks that this new #cryptocurrency will be barely more-successful than Dogecoin, and far less-cute."

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    • posted 21 June, 2019
  • We Will Rock . EU

    Remember NonStopHammerTi.me? By order of the Queen, Dan will Remain committed to an idea.

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    • posted 17 June, 2019

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