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Hello 2013: My Birthday
5 March, 2013Dan managed to spend the afternoon of his birthday away from his computer and in the pub... but only...
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A Surprise Christmas Gift
1 December, 2011A 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
30 September, 2011For the Bodleian Libraries' latest exhibition, Treasures of the Bodleian, Dan's produced some unusual QR codes to sit alongside...
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Time
22 August, 2011Some people are goldfish, and some people are midgets. Dan's a goldfish. What are you?
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Work Calendar [NSFW?]
13 August, 2011Dan is momentarily alarmed by an abstract art piece - supposedly inspired by a flower - that appears in...
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First Class Film
29 June, 2011Dan watches X-Men: First Class, and spots his office in the background during a part of the film. No;...
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Fonts of the Ancients
23 June, 2011Dan adds UTF-8 support to the CMS that powers the Bodleian Libraries' websites, and ponders how he'd justify the...
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My New Pet Hate, part II
15 June, 2011Dan shares a screenshot of a screenshot within a screenshot. I N C E P T I O N.
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A Small World Conspiracy
19 April, 2011Dan is contacted by somebody he met many years ago in a chance meeting, which quickly goes on to...
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The Final Hours
8 April, 2011It's Dan's final day working for SmartData: on Monday, he starts his new job at the Bodleian Library. As...
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On This Day in 2002 (New Job!)
4 March, 2011Dan looks back to 2002, when he began working for SmartData. Now, nine years on, he's planning to move...
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The Week of Balls
16 February, 2011Dan says the word "balls" a lot, statistically speaking, as he deals with a broken boiler (at home) and...
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Hectic (so let’s look at Paul, instead of writing a proper blog post)
17 November, 2010Between SmartData work, Three Rings work, freelance work, strange new bits of voluntary work, and the rapidly-looming wedding between...
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Roman Typesetters
27 September, 2010When ancient Roman typesetters or web designers were showcasing a design, and didn’t want the content of the (dummy)...
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Right Feature, Wrong Project
17 September, 2010Since I’ve been working from home, things with my “day job” at SmartData have ticked along pretty much the...
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There Is Such A Thing As Working Too Hard
25 May, 2009And while I’ve failed at hitting it, having scooped up my laptop and gone down to the beach only...
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What Does This Bug Report Mean?
2 January, 2009A bug report just came in from a client I’m responsible for at work. It reads: …Main menu –...
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Swimming To Work
12 August, 2008I turned up to work this morning, bright and early, and the first thing I noticed was that my...
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Paul Is The Most Fucking Random Person In The World
5 May, 2005Paul M: fucking nutter. The most random person you’re ever likely to meet. But you’ve got to love his...
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I’m Still In Aber. Yay.
30 March, 2004[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been...
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Out Of Place
18 December, 2003[this post was lost during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004; it was recovered on 21st March...
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Frustrating
16 December, 2003[this post was lost during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004; it was recovered on 21st March...
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Royal Welsh Show
23 July, 2003I’m writing this from the (badly-protected: just had to go to a page with a particularly funky JavaScript to...
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Dark Side Of The Moon
21 July, 2003Spent last night in a dark room with Paul, Kit and Claire, listening to a DTS-encoded 5.1 surround sound...
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Injured
16 July, 2003Spent last night on the beach with Andy, Alec, Paul, Claire, and others last night. Folks like Andy and...
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Butterfingers
14 July, 2003Butterfingers gave me a courtesy call at work this morning to tell me that my juggling gear will be...
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Monday Morning
7 July, 2003Another new week. I’m surprisingly jolly about it. Spent the morning so far discussing corporate image with my boss....
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Late
2 July, 2003Running late for work. Was supposed to get up and take laptop to Daton as part of an insurance...
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LiveJournals
1 July, 2003Many of my friends here in Aber seem to have thier own weblogs on LiveJournal. I’m almost tempted to...
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Back From Lancashire, Continued
30 June, 2003Spent the last four days in Lancashire and elsewhere in the North of England, visiting my folks (among other...
