Our first in-person murder mystery party in a long time was a success, and a great time was had by all. | Continue reading
For the second time, the council removed a footbridge in which I'd hidden a geocache... but this time they didn't warn me first! | Continue reading
Beginning to prepare/test my costume for an upcoming murder mystery party, I glanced into the mirror and briefly didn’t recognise myself. Glasses can do so much to change your face shape! | Continue reading
Hasbro seem to be rolling up a new character. Maybe this’ll help them. | Continue reading
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy. | Continue reading
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal The SMBC comic that came out this weekend was perhaps the best birthday present the Internet could provide. | Continue reading
A quick find by the eldest child on our way to visit the HMS Belfast. TFTC! | Continue reading
A quick morning expedition with the kids on the way to visit HMS Belfast. Took the ghost TB (didn’t see any others); we’ll find it somewhere to live in Oxfordshire next week! TFTC. | Continue reading
My 6-year-old is obsessed with skyscrapers right now, so we added to the itinerary of our visit to London a trip up to the Sky Garden. The weather wasn’t good enough to get out onto the open-air terrace, but the views were still pretty impressive and the boy loved picking out the … | Continue reading
LastPass users are having to cycle their passwords in the light of a recent security incident. That might well include their "security question" answers, which necessarily leads to some amusing conversations. | Continue reading
Taking a dog for a walk up a hill: couldn't be simpler, right? What if there were a flood in the way? | Continue reading
Dropped by while cycling in the vicinity to replace the log book in the cache container. Hopefully this one will survive a little longer! | Continue reading
No, I won't subscribe to your newsletter... except by using my RSS reader (and a clever feature of OpenTrashMail)! | Continue reading
As MP3s took off, early player software looked... weird and ugly. To this day, I can't understand why. | Continue reading
Visited today after the recent log suggesting the container had been removed and the log dumped. Couldn’t find the log hidden anywhere, but the cache container is intact and in place (just missing a log book!). I’ll try to get up and hunt for the hidden log later this week, or el … | Continue reading
Stuart shared his experience of changing mobile network. I have only one tip to add... | Continue reading
A cycle in the dark leads to a hashpoint on a bridleway and the opportunity to improve OpenStreetMap. | Continue reading
In reply to Terence Eden, Dan says that he considers it's morally-acceptable for a personal website to take a reactive approach to the moderation of comments syndicated via WebMentions, and explains why. | Continue reading
This hashpoint looked like it'd be a walk in the park, but it nearly ended up as a battle with bullocks. | Continue reading
A friend of mine used to do railway station announcements and was so good that he could do it from memory. That job now belongs to a computer. And that's fine. | Continue reading
Things The Other Child Did Wrong That Lead To The Fight that I’ve heard so far today: Clapped too loudly Sang too loudly Sang too quietly Sang the wrong words Put their feet too close to the dog Ate the last grape Ate the wrong grape (!?) Finished brushing their teeth first Clapp … | Continue reading
Following feedback, I’ve tweaked the hint. | Continue reading
I've been publishing some of my blog posts over RSS only for a little while. Here's why. | Continue reading
The proxy I implemented to bypass The Far Side's lack of an RSS feed is now unnecessary, because FreshRSS is better than ever. | Continue reading
408: Request Timeout = "You keep saying you'll propose, but you never do", and 18 other HTTP response codes expressed as relationship breakdowns. | Continue reading
I implemented a terrible digital version of a truly stupid board game idea. My excuse is illness, I guess? | Continue reading
Alex Standiford observes that Automattic stand to win from Twitter's losses; I'd like to expand on that a tiny bit. | Continue reading
I was just barely pipped to the post for a FTF by runmc while out walking the dog. | Continue reading
As the sun begins to set on Spring '83, I finally finish implementing my server for the protocol, way too late for anybody to pay attention or notice. | Continue reading
Oxford Geek Night returned this week after an incredibly-long hiatus, and it was amazing. | Continue reading
Finally got around to implementing a super-lightweight (~20 lines of code, 1 dependency) Spring '83 key generator. There are plenty of others; nobody needs this one, but it's free if you want it: https://github.com/Dan-Q/spring83-keygen | Continue reading
Has anybody ever made a Finger-to-WordPress gateway before? No? Can you imagine why that might be? | Continue reading
What do counselling and constellations have in common? They can both be about picking points and drawing lines between them. | Continue reading
Dan replies to Derek Kedziora's blog post, arguing that identity verification on Mastodon is, for the most part, a problem already solved. | Continue reading
Repaired and replaced. Happy hunting! | Continue reading
Tried to replace/repair but muggles were hanging around too close to stealth the cache into position. Going to go find myself some lunch then come back and try again. | Continue reading
Dropped by on the way back from the school run to check in on this cache. All is well. Also deposited travel bug TB831BW on the next leg of its intergalactic adventure. | Continue reading
Had to stand around looking inconspicuous for a while before the geopup and I could retrieve this cache from its hiding place. There’s a lot going on this morning, presumably in anticipation of a Remembrance Sunday service at the church later. The bench across the road provided u … | Continue reading
QEF for the geopup and I while out on a morning walk, although I did get somewhat prickled retrieving the cache from its hiding place. SL, TFTC. | Continue reading
Found the GZ without difficulty and a plethora of great hiding spots, but no luck for me nor the geopup here this morning. The hound enjoyed a quick paddle in the stream at this lovely spot, though, so it’s not a complete failure! | Continue reading
Found with the geopup on a morning walk through the woods. Always appreciate a good-sized container. Took travel bug. TFTC. | Continue reading
Dan's paperless baking gets taken away when he doesn't consent to them tracking when and where he reads their emails. | Continue reading