Tag: bodleian
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Found GLEJ3XFQ Oxford Medical History #2: Grey matter
This checkin to GLEJ3XFQ Oxford Medical History #2: Grey matter reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An easy enough find made easier by the fact that I helped find the hiding spot for the owner! Came by on the way home from work to drop off a Georgian. TFTC!
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Dressing Up at the Story Museum
Dan and his co-workers play dress-up at The Story Museum.
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Behind the Scenes: Weston Library time-lapse
If the different land uses of the UK were divided up into their percentage-ratio blocks, what would a 100-second tour of the country (with each second covering a single percent of the land usage) look like?
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Rave Reviews for Your Password Sucks
After running a breakout session entitled "Your password: how bad guys will steal your identity" at the 2012 UAS Conference, Dan gets rave reviews. Nice.
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Quiet On Set
When you watch The Quiet Ones, listen out for Dan cycling past, complaining the whole way about the film crew that have taken up camp between him and his office.
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A Surprise Christmas Gift
A surprise package arrives outside Dan's office door. What's inside? A whole heap of goodness, that's what.
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QR Codes of the Bodleian
For the Bodleian Libraries' latest exhibition, Treasures of the Bodleian, Dan's produced some unusual QR codes to sit alongside the exhibits.
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Time
Some people are goldfish, and some people are midgets. Dan's a goldfish. What are you?
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Work Calendar [NSFW?]
Dan is momentarily alarmed by an abstract art piece - supposedly inspired by a flower - that appears in his office's calendar. Might be NSFW?
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Instead Of Blogging...
In a declaration of 'blog bankruptcy', Dan lists all of the topics that he'd hoped to have blogged about during the last (very busy!) month, and gets on with writing about other things. He's been busy!
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First Class Film
Dan watches X-Men: First Class, and spots his office in the background during a part of the film. No; not the part with the battle between the jetfighter and the levitating submarine.
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Fonts of the Ancients
Dan adds UTF-8 support to the CMS that powers the Bodleian Libraries' websites, and ponders how he'd justify the scope of Unicode to a (hypothetical) time-traveling scribe from ancient Egypt.
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My New Pet Hate, part II
Dan shares a screenshot of a screenshot within a screenshot.
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Idiocy Repeats Itself
Dan rushes down three flights of stairs to the meeting room where there's free food left over, slips on the stairs, and... hang on: haven't we seen this blog post before, back in 2009?
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Content Freeze
After a significant blow to the head, Dan loses the ability to write to his long-term memory for several hours. Hilarity ensues.