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Tag: passport

  • Screenshot showing a web form with Dan Q and three other passengers on the outbound leg of a journey. Personal details appear to be blurred, but are actually spoofed AND blurred, per Dan's tradition. A 'Return passenger information is the same' checkbox is checked.

    The secret API I used to tell LeShuttle about different outbound and return passengers

    Channel Tunnel operator LeShuttle's website wouldn't provide a working UI to specify that I'd have different passengers in my car for the outbound and return journeys. So, obviously, I reverse-engineered their API and pushed the information to their database directly.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1012 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 16 July, 2026
  • World map showing the locations of Dan, his immediate team, and its parent team. There's a cluster of nine pins Europe, a few pins further East in Russia and Indonesia, one in Cape Town, two in North America, and one in Central America.

    Automattic Privilege

    Dan's thinks about the geographic/cultural privileges he enjoys within his international workplace.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (664 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 7 February, 2022
  • Image representing post: Passport Photos

    Passport Photos

    Passport photo rules make self-expression impossible. Or do they?

    Read more (235 words)

    • Repost
    • posted 23 August, 2019
  • Image representing post: The Queen's Passport

    The Queen's Passport

    Inside the front cover of Dan's passport is a note from the Queen, demanding that he be allowed to travel freely in her name. But what's written inside the Queen's passport? And where do these little booklets come from to begin with?

    Read more (364 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 27 September, 2011
  • Image representing post: A Note From The Passport Office

    A Note From The Passport Office

    This morning I received my new passport, following my name change last month. In the envelope with the new passport and the usual collection of leaflets about safe travelling, I found the following compliments slip:
    AltA compliments slip from Identity and Passport Service, Home Office.
    The slip reads:

    Mr. Q,
    โ€ฆ

    Read more (94 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 28 April, 2007
  • Off To Malawi!

    I'm off to Malawi!

    I've found my bus ticket (stupid train strikes), my passport (stupid immigration laws), my juggling balls (stupid... no, wait... juggling is good)... I guess I'm ready to go.

    Contrary to my assumption that my bus would be leaving from the bus station, it's apparently leaving from Plascrug... which is... somewhere... hmm...

    Anyway, y'all, take โ€ฆ

    Read more (112 words)

    • Article
    • posted 16 June, 2004

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