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[Note] Frogs in a Hollow pt 1
Got the ratio of chipolatas to bacon wrong for your Christmas pigs-in-blankets and now have more cocktail sausages than you know what to do with? No, just me? Here’s my planned solution, anyway – teeny...
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[Note] Frogs in a Hollow pt 2
This evening I used leftover cocktail sausages to make teeny-tiny toads-in-the-hole (my kids say they should be called frogs-in-the-dip). It worked out pretty well. Micro-recipe: 1. Bake cocktail...
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Our family tradition on New Year’s Day is to go to the Rollright Stones. Legend has it that you can’t count the standing stones and get the same answer twice. This year the younger child counted 37,...
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[Article] My Ball
Our beloved-but-slightly-thick dog will sometimes consent to playing fetch, but one of her favourite games to play is My Ball. Which is a bit like fetch, except that she won’t let go of the ball. It’s...
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[Checkin] Dan Q found GC80592 Coffee, Cache and Dash
This checkin to GC80592 Coffee, Cache and Dash reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. QEF while stopped for a confort break on a long journey North from Oxford. The dog...
View Article[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC8TK41 05 – Willow’s Wanders – Eshington Bridge
This checkin to GC8TK41 05 - Willow's Wanders - Eshington Bridge reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. An extended search over two visits today by the eldest child and I...
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I’m staying in a lodge in the Yorkshire Dales National Park to celebrate the eldest kid’s birthday and we’ve just received a huge dump of snow, overnight. What was grass is now a thick white carpet of...
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Compared to the children, the dog is Not So Impressed by the deep snowfall we’ve just received. To be fair, it’s basically up to get armpits! (leg-pits? I don’t know what the right word is for a...
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[Article] Endless SSH Tarpit on Debian
Tarpitting SSH with Endlessh I had a smug moment when I saw security researcher Rob Ricci and friends’ paper empirically analysing brute-force attacks against SSH “in the wild”.1 It turns out that...
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[Article] Entitled by Kate Manne
I just finished reading Kate Manne‘s Entitled. I can’t remember where I first heard about it or why I opted to buy a copy, but it had been sitting in my to-read pile for a while and so I picked it up...
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[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC8KR7D Motorway Mayhem (another one)
This checkin to GC8KR7D Motorway Mayhem (another one) reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The geohound and I braved an explore of this litter-filled GZ but couldn’t spot...
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[Note] Caddy
I’m pretty impressed with running WordPress on Caddy so far. It took a little jiggerypokery to configure it with an equivalent of the Nginx configuration I use for DanQ.me. But off the back of it I get...
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[Note] Lego: Zero Dawn
Except to children, I don’t really give Christmas presents to (or expect to receive them from) others any more. But that didn’t stop my buying myself a gift of a particularly fun Lego set to build over...
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My 12:55 flight is, according to this departure board, delayed to… 12:55!? Either it’s running a full 24 hours late, or this board is untrustworthy. 🕵️ Subscribing to DanQ.me's RSS feeds means that...
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Just visited the Logos Hope, an ocean-going, volunteer-staffed floating book fair (run by a Christian charity, but it’s not-TOO-religiousy inside, if that’s not your jam) that’s coincidentally docked...
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A couple of hours into our ferry journey, we just got our first glimpse of the island of Tobago, where we’ll be staying for the next few days. 💖 RSS is fantastic, and so are you for using it. 🎆
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[Article] James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes
On the flight over to Trinidad I finished reading James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes by James Acaster, which I received as part of our family’s traditional Christmas Eve book exchange. I’m a big fan of...
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[Checkin] Dan Q did not find GC3PJYY Paradise
This checkin to GC3PJYY Paradise reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Found the location and the hint object, but a thorough search did not reveal the cache. I think it...
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[Repost] Dark Patterns Detective
This was fun. A simple interactive demonstration of ten different dark patterns you’ve probably experienced online. I might use it as a vehicle for talking about such deceptive tactics with our eldest...
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Came half way around the world to find a surprising boat with a non-English name I understand. (“Cariad” is Welsh for “love”) 🧡 I love RSS feeds. And I love you for using them. 💙
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