Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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Best Bug Ever
On behalf of a client of a client of SmartData, I was responsible this weekend for moving a website over from one server to another. It's a monolithic old custom-written content management system, in Perl, which over the last four or five years has been passed from developer to developer and has begun to look …
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Aw Shit
I have a mountain of stuff to do in the next 52 hours, and my PC just kicked the bucket.
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Valentine’s Day
None of the four of us (JTA, Ruth, Claire and I) had planned to make anything special out of Valentine's Day, which is why I was quite surprised last night to come home from work and find The Cottage kitted out with candles as part of Ruth's last-minute secret plan to cook a romantic meal …
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And The Rest Of Bulgaria
Oh yeah, suppose I ought to finish writing about Bulgaria now that we've been back a couple of days.
MORE SKIING: Aced The Wall in the end, and damn it's a good run - long and fast and challenging, even when you think you know it. Coming back up on the chairlift I met a couple … -
Peter Huntley Sings "Dancing Queen"
Peter Huntley sings "Dancing Queen" at a karaoke night.
Also available on YouTube.
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News From The Slopes
Fresh from the slopes, over GPRS (at charging rates starting at "two limbs"), comes this report from the Bulgarian Holiday Team (Claire and I, along with my dad and my sisters).
JOURNEY: Uneventful, but tedious - three and a bit hours on a plane followed by a five hour bus journey is pretty mind-numbing, although we … -
In Bulgaria
Having a great time. Only seconds left on this internet cafe connection, though.
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Off To Bulgaria
Back in Aber a week on Sunday.
Apologies to everybody/thing (including this blog) that I've neglected this last fortnight. Will catch up with my inbox and voicemail when I'm back in the UK.
Right, time to go offline before I get branded a terrorist for using a phone on a 'plane or something. -
Scotch Pete
He's in town. I've just seen him from the car.
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Stairwell At West Blockhouse
Walking up the stairwell from the basement to the roof at West Blockhouse, Dale, Pembrokeshire.
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John Melton On The Piano
...John Melton plays the piano and grins a lot. Don't let him know that you've realised he's just pressed the "demo" button.
Also available on YouTube.
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A Very Very Short Post
I'm in a fort in Pembrokeshire. There is not much signal. But I'm having fun. And I'm 27.
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So That Was 2007
2007's drawing to a close, so I thought I'd better say a few words to mark it's passing, and what's it's meant to me. In convenient bullet-point form, here's what I've been up to this year:
January
I was a headline act at Gorilla Monsoon, Aber's now-dead alternative comedy "scene" event. … -
Out And About
Just to keep people posted aboutour whereabouts, here's Claire and I's travel plans for the next few days:
Friday (Today) evening: travel from Aberystwyth to Norfolk.
Saturday: Norfolk (well, Lincolnshire) with Claire's dad and his wife.
Sunday: travel from Norfolk to Preson.
Monday: Preston with Dan's family.
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Further Disturbances From Dan’s Sleepy Head
Two more particularly strange dreams last night, probably owing at least slightly by the amount I drank at the SmartData Christmas meal, beforehand... and perhaps owing more to the phase I've been going though of consistently remembering what are usually quite trippy dreams. I've not been blogging them all (I had a dream the night …