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Fresher’s Week Aberystwyth
If you were in The Glen on Saturday 23rd September, you'll probably have seen an odd chap in a very loud shirt, inflating balloons and giving out "Hot Wet Sex" posters! The whole thing became a huge party - everybody bouncing balloons across the dance floor and waving posters in the air! (I wonder how …
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Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #24:
Take a pillow to a lecture. =o)
The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at which my "friends back home" could read them, during the first few months of my time at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, … -
Aberystwyth Admission
Dan starts his academic career at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
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Swimathon 1999
This image was shared here in hindsight, on 25 May 2019.
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Avatar Diary
Got up late, and had lunch with my mum before returning to my dad's house. Made a chicken stir-fry for tea (one of my few culinary skills) while my dad repaired his bike... I wasn't actually being considerate of others needs: I was just hungry. Watched "Gattaca" on video in the evening, followed by Channel …
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Avatar Diary
Didn't go in to college. Virtually all my lessons have been cancelled anyway. Instead - spend the morning catching up on sleep lost over the last few weeks, and took the afternoon as a chance to deal with my backlog of e-mail in my InBox...
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Placeholder for Dan's First Blog Post
Dan's first blog post was made on this date. Its existence and the date of its publication can be derived from other sources, but its contents have been lost. It didn't have a title. It will have been available at http://castle.onza.net/ (and then later http://castle.onza.net/diary/) from the date of its publication through 1 October 1999.
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MOVE IN PROGRESS
Castle of the Four Winds is currently in the process of moving to it's new location at castle.onza.net. Please alter your bookmarks and links, then check out the NEW-AND-IMPROVED-SITE!
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My GeekCode
This page was posted to one of my first websites, on 25 March 1998 (as well as appearing in my email/usenet signatures etc.). It was republished here on 22 March 2021.
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Version: 3.1 (www.geekcode.com)
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PGP(-)t-(--)5X-R+@tv>-b+++DI@D+++>++G++e>+++++h!*@r!z+
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Declaration of Hardware
This declaration was posted to one of my first websites, on 22 April 1997; I'm not certain why. From the sounds of things I was using a school computer at the time. It was republished here on 22 March 2021.
I am using an RM PC-433S Accelerator on a 486 Nimbus Network, operating a Brother M-1824L …