Tag: nostalgia
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One Hundred And Sixty
Dan reminisces about old mobile phones, text messages, and those 160-character limits we learned to work around. Twitter could learn from this...
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Remembering December 2003
Back in July 2004, Dan lost a lot of his older blog posts during a server malfunction. Now and then, he finds time to recover some of this deleted posts; like today, when he managed to get back everything he wrote in December 2003.
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Northern Radio
While standing in the shower and listening to a local radio station, in Lancashire, Dan considers the impact of moving around the country on his perception of different dialects.
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The Old Asylum
Dan explains how he came to love abandoned buildings and forgotten places, by telling the story of how he and some school friends explored a the hollow remains of what was once Britain's largest mental hospital.
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Making Time
Finally at the end of a mammoth development stretch for the Three Rings project, Dan finally gets a little free time in which to play some video games.
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On This Day In 1999
It's 12 years to the day since Dan first downloaded a copy of The Matrix, whose massive 1.4GB bulk ate up virtually all of his spare hard drive space. How quickly these things become obsolete.
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On This Day In 2003
Dan looks back on the very first time he juggled flaming clubs, and wraps this up in the story of how he learned to juggle in the first place.
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Hash Abnib
Abnib Chat didn't catch on this time around. Dan is unsurprised, but tries to understand the reasons anyway.
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On This Day In 2003
Today is the ninth birthday of Dan's blog on scatmania.org. Okay, okay, so he's actually been blogging in some form or another for almost four years longer than this, but it's still cool, however you look at it.
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On This Day in 2002 (New Job!)
Dan looks back to 2002, when he began working for SmartData. Now, nine years on, he's planning to move on to his next job, with the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford!
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On This Day In 2004
Dan looks back to six years ago, when he and Paul argued about the usability of the Steam digital distribution platform.
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On This Day In 2009
Looking Back
On this day in 2009 I'd just announced that Claire and I had broken up after our seven year relationship. I attacked Virgil's omnia vincit amor (love conquers all), countering that our love for one another was not sufficient to prevent the difficulties we'd been having. That the breakup was among the most structured, … -
It is Windy in Aberystwyth
We don't get wind in Oxford: not wind like this, anyway. The air is passionate and angry, full of bitter sea salt and wild energy. It smells like Aberystwyth... and still a little like "home".
But this time I'm here as a visitor, of course. Just another tourist: and that's a very strange and alien feeling, … -
On This Day In 1999
Looking Back
On this day in 1999 I sent out the fourth of my Cool Thing Of The Day To Do In Aberystwyth e-mails. I wasn't blogging at the time (although I did have a blog previously), but I felt that it would be nice to do something to help keep in touch with my friends and … -
Troma Night Adventure
Because I promised you some Aber-nostalgia.
Do you remember the RockMonkey Wiki? Many years ago, Ruth bought the domain name rockmonkey.org.uk as a gift for Andy K, who'd been nicknamed "Rock Monkey" for longer than anybody could remember. He decided that what he wanted to host there was a wiki engine, and I helped him get …