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Wed, Feb. 25th, 2026, 08:31 pm
F-Day plus 12
It's now twelve days since a flood struck my house, causing the ground floor to be submerged under a couple of feet of water and ultimately leading us to kick off an insurance claim process. And man, a home insurance claim seems to be... slow. For instance, we originally couldn't even get https://danq.me/2026/02/25/f-day-plus-12/
What can I make it do? It's been said that when faced with a new piece of technology, a normal person asks "what does it do?", but a hacker asks "what can I make it do?". This kind of curiosity is integral to a hacker mindset. I can trace my hacker roots back further than my first https://danq.me/2026/01/30/rm-nimbus/
The younger child and I were talking about maths on the school run this morning, and today's topic was geometry. I was pleased to discover that he's already got a reasonable comprehension of the Pythagorean Theorem: I was telling him that I was about his age when I first came across it, but in my https://danq.me/2025/11/13/pythagorean-theorem/
To: ****@fulwoodacademy.co.uk From: "Dan Q" <***@danq.me> Subject: Subject Access Request - Dan Q, pupil Sep 1992 - Jun 1997 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:18:07 +0100 To Whom It May Concern, Please supply the personal data you hold about me, per data protection law. https://danq.me/2024/08/02/permanent-record/
Politics and pundits The UK's Conservative government, having realised that their mandate is worthless, seems to be in a panicked rush to try to get the voters to ignore any of the real issues. Instead, they say, we should be focussed on things like ludicrously-expensive and ineffective ways to https://danq.me/2024/05/15/dont-ask-dont-teach/
This post is part of my attempt at Bloganuary 2024. Today's prompt is: What colleges have you attended? I feel like this question might be a little US-centric? Or at least, not UK-friendly! The question doesn't translate well because of transatlantic differences in our higher education systems https://danq.me/2024/01/03/bloganuary-2024-3/
Sat, Jul. 1st, 2023, 12:26 pm
Local Expert
At school, our 9-year-old is currently studying the hsitory of human civilization from the late stone age through to the bronze age. The other week, the class was split into three groups, each of which was tasked with researching a different piece of megalithic architecture: One group https://danq.me/2023/07/01/local-expert/
Tue, Mar. 24th, 2020, 03:38 pm
Gratitude
In these challenging times, and especially because my work and social circles have me communicate regularly with people in many different countries and with many different backgrounds, I'm especially grateful for the following: My partner, her husband, and I each have jobs that we can do https://danq.me/2020/03/24/gratitude/
Our eldest, 4, started school this year and this week saw her first parents' evening. This provided an opportunity for we, her parents, to "come out" to her teacher about our slightly-unconventional relationship structure. And everything was fine, which is nice. I'm sure the first few https://danq.me/2018/12/07/poly-parents-evening/
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