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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC892N8 Galata Tower
This checkin to GC892N8 Galata Tower reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My second visit of the day to the tower, has I didn’t have a working pen with me on the first....
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[Note] Geocaching Convex Hull now includes Turkey
Thanks to finding a couple of geocaches here in Istanbul, my geocaching “2D convex hull” (the smallest possible convex polygon that covers an area), which I wrote some code to draw last year, just...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6VTEG Galata Bridge #3
This checkin to GC6VTEG Galata Bridge #3 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. After lunch with my work team in a delightful restaurant overlooking the bridge (which I’m...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAJG5P The Two Mosques Virtual Reward 4.0
This checkin to GCAJG5P The Two Mosques Virtual Reward 4.0 reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Here with worth colleagues on our “day off” from meetings and code...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GCAJHQ1 The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III
This checkin to GCAJHQ1 The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Two virtual caches in such close proximity! And what a beautiful fountain....
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC7B79C Kız Kulesi/Maiden’s Tower- Virtual Reward
This checkin to GC7B79C Kız Kulesi/Maiden's Tower- Virtual Reward reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Went over on the ferry. Using my phone as my GPSr and also my...
View Article[Reply] Reply to: Is Not Answering the Thing Now?
Marc Thiele asked, in a post titled “Is Not Answering the Thing Now?”: Maybe I am just seeing this wrong, but I experience that a lot of people simply don’t reply to emails/messages these days any...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC6JQAX Rainbow Stairs
This checkin to GC6JQAX Rainbow Stairs reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I’d hoped not to need the spoiler image but after an extended hunt I gave up and used it. Soon...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC7B9C6 Heykel&Boğaz/Sculpture & Bosphorus- Virtual Reward
This checkin to GC7B9C6 Heykel&Boğaz/Sculpture & Bosphorus- Virtual Reward reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. As others have observed, this is a bit challenging...
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[Article] Delivery Songs
Here in the UK, ice cream vans will usually play a tune to let you know they’re set up and selling1. So when you hear Greensleeves (or, occasionally, Waltzing Matilda), you know it’s time to go and...
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[Note] Istanbul decompression
It wasn’t until I made time for myself to get out into the countryside near my home and take the dog for a walk that I realised how much stress I’d been putting myself under during my team meetup, this...
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For a little while I got to lie in the sunshine and read my book in quiet solitude. But before long I found I was sharing it with a small child and his noisy games console. Still delightful, though,...
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[Note] To-go pint
Sometimes the kids need to leave your pub dinner before you finish your drink, and you need to take a “to-go” pint. 🎗️ Using RSS feeds is a great way to keep up-to-date with my blog. Thanks for...
View Article[Repost] Bored of it
… Every article glorifying it. Every article vilifying it. Every pub conversation winding up talking about it. People incessantly telling you how they use it. I feel dirty using it. You know what I’m...
View Article[Note] Unacceptable language
8-year-old, angry: Give me that fucking thing right now! Me: [Child’s name]! That’s not an acceptable way to ask for something! 8-year-old, calmer: Sorry. PLEASE can you give me that fucking thing? 🪄...
View Article[Repost] My on-again-off-again relationship with AI assistants
Sean McPherson, whom I’ve been following ever since he introduced me to the Five-Room Dungeons concept, said: … There is a lot of smoke in the work-productivity AI space. I believe there is (probably)...
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[Article] Change Your Star Sign
My star sign is Aquarius. Aquarians are, according to tradition: deep, imaginative, original, and uncompromising. That sounds like a pretty good description of me, right? You can tell that I’m an...
View Article[Note] Redundant
Apparently Automattic are laying off around one in six of their workforce. And I’m one of the unlucky ones. Anybody remote hiring for a UK-based full-stack web developer (in a world that doesn’t seem...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q found GC97N3H Lodge Hill C & D
This checkin to GC97N3H Lodge Hill C & D reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF as a cache-and-dash. This afternoon, owing to Some Plot, I needed to go speak to a...
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[Note] 3Camp 2025
I’m off for a week of full-time volunteering with Three Rings at 3Camp, our annual volunteer hack week: bringing together our distributed team for some intensive in-person time, working to make life...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC1DH7W Knipe Scar – On the Edge
This checkin to GC1DH7W Knipe Scar - On the Edge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A swift uphill scramble for my friend and fellow volunteer John and I, before...
View Article[Repost] Scots Fire Brigade Union demand new legal protections for people...
In the fight for equal representation for polyamorous relationships, polyamorists may have a strange and unlikely ally in… the Scottish Fire Brigade Union: Scotland’s Fire Brigade Union (FBU) has been...
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The phone signal is so shit at this year’s 3Camp venue that I’ve had to climb a hill to take a call from a lawyer (whom I’m speaking to about my recent redundancy). Nice to be outdoors, though! 🥰...
View Article[Note] A Surprisingly Shit Bathroom
This bathroom at the holiday home where some fellow volunteers and I are doing some Three Rings work, this week, has a few unusual quirks, including this surprisingly-shit bathroom: The door has a...
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[Note] Rosgill Crossroads
I’m in an extremely rural area and I needed a phone call with my lawyer about my recent redundancy. Phone signal was very bad, so I resolved to climb a nearby hill and call him back. “I’m at a...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC1DH2A Knipe Scar – Haweswater View
This checkin to GC1DH2A Knipe Scar - Haweswater View reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. How delightful to find such a well-sized and well-placed geocache, and in such a...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC47GDB Kiln Crag – Knipescar
This checkin to GC47GDB Kiln Crag - Knipescar reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. A bit of an adventure! Coming directly from the next nearest cache on this pasture I...
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“I know that losing your job was hard,” my 8-year-old said to me this evening, “So you can borrow this.” He handed me his newest soft toy. “It’ll help you feel better when you’re sad. Keep him for the...
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[Note] Lake District art lesson
Brought the kids up Knipe Scar with limited and challenging art materials (huge sheets of paper and thick marker pens) for a lesson in drawing what a landscape makes you feel, rather than focusing on...
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While adding an entry to OpenBenches (openbenches.org/bench/36677), I was struck by how much of an impact this woman – Jane Gregg – must have made on her local community. In this community garden in...
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