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  • Reply to @ADumbGreyHam

    Dan replies to Adam's tweet about Dan's dad's public transport legacy.

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    • posted 15 October, 2019
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    Reply to: Indelible

    Dan's friend Bryn gets a tattoo, and Dan shares his thoughts.

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    • posted 11 October, 2019
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    Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS FontFaceSet.load() method

    Chris Ferdinandi's suggestion of using FontFaceSet.load() to prevent FOIT seems overkill. What's wrong with font-display: swap;?

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    • posted 22 June, 2019
  • Fathom Analytics dashboard

    Goodbye Google Analytics, Hello Fathom

    Big news! This site is no longer using Google Analytics and Iโ€™ve switched to a self-hosted version of brand new analytics product Fathom.



     

    Fathom is very simple. It only tracks 4 things: Unique Visitors, Page Views, Time on Site, and Bounce Rate. It shows me a chart of page views and visitors and then gives me โ€ฆ

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    • posted 17 April, 2019
  • ...you wouldn't believe how often I'm told I'm not allowed to use the letter "Q" in passwords...

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    • posted 30 January, 2019
  • Reply to Hardware Issue - when did hard drive space get like this?

    Hardware Issue (Aquarionics) So, I am a professional system administrator. It says it on my business cards and everything. Every couple of months, when I have to explain to the receptionist at the London office that yes, I do work here, and so Nicholas Avenell (Aquarionics) wrote:
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    (My first hard drive for the Amiga 600 โ€ฆ

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    • posted 7 October, 2018
  • What is a "Bag of Choppy"?



    dobegood posted to Reddit:



    My mum just used the phrase "we'd be in for a bucket of custard." I'm not sure if this is a real phrase or she's having a stroke. Please advise.


    dobegood




    My mother once described her new cat, which was very skinny when she got it, โ€ฆ

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    • posted 7 January, 2018
  • 8 words

    Ruth wrote:



    Coming out to my mother as bisexual was something I thought about for years before finally taking the plunge. Braced for tears and recriminations, I was amazed and pleased to be greeted only with love and support.

    Which was why telling her I was poly remains one of the most difficult things I've โ€ฆ

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    • posted 3 November, 2008
  • strange dream

    Beth wrote:

    Last night I had an utterly bizarre dream in which I was at the Q party, which for some reason was at Dan and Claire's huge sprawling country bungalow. The sun was shining and everyone was running about in the garden. I wish I could remember more, I do remember having a โ€ฆ

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    • posted 1 September, 2007
  • Dumping for Dummies

    Ruth wrote:



    Wow, it's been nearly a month since I put finger to key for the sake of this old thing. In case anyone's wondering, I was feeling hurt and a bit isolated due to the total lack of concern you all showed when I had my first taste of bereavement (with the notable โ€ฆ

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    • posted 13 August, 2007
  • Contraception advice please Claire Q!

    Liz wrote:
    A huge thank you to everyone who posted support last week. I felt alot better knowing that other people believed me.

    Thankfully simon believed me too and the whole thing has made us a lot stronger.

    Could I please ask for some advice from claire. Simon and i are having incredibly bad luck. The second โ€ฆ

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    • posted 8 April, 2007
  • Sian wrote:
    I'm hoping to get a laptop for me birthday, any suggestions people who know about these things? Before I end up buying one just because it's pink or has Hello Kitty on it or something. I just want something basic, but not rubbish. Help?
    Before somebody suggests that I will be the best โ€ฆ

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    • posted 8 March, 2007
  • Open All Night

    Matt R wrote:
    Guys, I really need your support here and I know that it's very last minute.

    There's a comedy open mic night tomorrow in The Angel and, not only am I performing in one of the slots, I'm also the MC. This is a big thing for me so if you could all come โ€ฆ

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    • posted 12 February, 2006
  • scan.co.uk

    Ruth wrote:



    We are in the process of ordering a new computer. Most of the bits are coming from Scan. Now, their range is lovely, and their postage policy is reasonably sensible, but they have a dumb policy on debit cards.

    If you pay with a debit card (instead of a credit card), you can โ€ฆ

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    • posted 18 September, 2005
  • Sian wrote:
    Going to be registering a website thingy tonight to mess around with. Any hints/tips/advice from all you people who know about this stuff would be gratefully received. I am, after all, officially computer illiterate.
    Register your domain name with somebody respectable (won't rip you off or otherwise fuck up) like Easily, who'll give โ€ฆ

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    • posted 23 August, 2005

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