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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Dan and Alex - Just Another Webcomic
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Fresh Ground Café
Hot on the heels of the news that the café below us is for sale, a new café has opened just across the road, where Serendipity (a restaurant I never got the chance to go to) used to be.
Fresh Ground Café can now be found at number 14 Cambrian Place. Claire thinks it's name is … -
Hello Shit; I’d Like You To Meet Fan… Fan, Shit…
Can't say too much on here, but I can't help but feel like I might need re-think my career options from this point. That is all.
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Gents Toilets Mystery
The gents toilets on the first floor of the building where I work is a complete mystery to me.
That's not strictly true. I know where the stalls and the urinals are. I know how to make the taps - little push-button ones - work. I know that the hand dryer to the right typically warms … -
All Ready For NaNoWriMo
Well, here goes nothing.
Words written: 0 / target: 50000
As many of you already know, I'm participating this November in NaNoWriMo, the National Novel Writing Month contest. The aim is to write, from a standing start, 50,000 words in 30 days. So... about 1,700 words a day. There were days that my dissertation got … -
Soup On Your Head
There are some very strange tags on Flickr, the photo sharing service, such as this one which was revealed to me today: Soup On Your Head. It's pictures of people... with soup on their heads. And that's it. Damn weird.
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Baba Yetu
Go on, JTA, tease yourself a little longer with a copy of the menu theme from Civilization IV.
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Paul's 100th Duty
AltPaul and friends with cake in the lodge.
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Another Stunning Error Message
This time from Corel:
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Dan and Alex
Dan and Alex now has it's own subdomain, so you don't have to read it if you don't want to. Yeah, right. There's a new episode up, and you can even subscribe to the new RSS feed (or just pick it up on Abnib).
Expect to see more of Dan and Alex in the near future.
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Genius Filmmaking
This is just a piece of genius filmmaking. 5 friends in Machynlleth made huge chipboard letters akin to the ones famously on the hills above Hollywood did so secretly, deploying the letters the night before Mach's weekend-long film festival started.
But better than that, they filmed themselves doing it and entered their short movie into the … -
Who’s My Daddy?
I've seen some pretty stupid test memes. So I've made one of my own:
Who's My Daddy?
Peter Huntley is my daddy.
Generated by the "Who's Your Daddy?" Test Meme
In other news, "Hook" by Blues Traveler (lyrics) is a spectacular song.
I have an unbelievable amount of work to … -
eBay Context Advertising
You've probably seen eBay's context-sensitive advertising on Google: you search for, say, "children's toys", and one of the Google ads on the right-hand side of the page tells you how you can buy and sell children's toys on eBay. I've always thought that this system was probably just waiting to be abused, so I had …
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Balloon Fetish Porn
Perhaps the strangest site I've seen all day: Loonerz.com.
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E-Mail Server Configuration For Dummies
Well; I feel like a wally.
SmartData's taking on a new client for a content-managed web site, web and e-mail hosting. In anticipation of the domain transfer going through without a hitch, I reconfigured our web and e-mail servers to already be ready to accept connections to their "new" web site and for e-mails to come …