[Reply] Ship sizes and Pillaging / Flag-o-poly
Nemo wrote: Ursela is her own, walking, talking, swashbuckling example of the monopoly flag argument. I see the flag distribution happening along almost the same lines as the current crew situation....
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Sian wrote: Amazon book recommendations have just recommended me the book ‘A Hand in the Bush: The Fine Art of Vaginal Fisting’. Their reasoning for this is that I have ‘Amelie’ on my WishList. There...
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Sian wrote: People are funny. I get to look at the accounts of people who have signed up for Children First newsletter updates, and their passwords make me laugh. The number of people who’s password...
View Article[Reply] Yay, my underwear from Figleaves turned up today, I have new bras…
Ruth wrote: Yay, my underwear from Figleaves turned up today, I have new bras which fit. Now my breasts look enormous, which is a bit scary… Let me see, let me see! (awaits slap)
View Article[Reply] Reflections
Ruth wrote: Something surprised me today. I was looking through the various blog-posts relating to the nastiness with the Union, and I was quite shocked to realise how many of the people that I...
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Sian wrote: Going to be registering a website thingy tonight to mess around with. Any hints/tips/advice from all you people who know about this stuff would be gratefully received. I am, after all,...
View Article[Reply] scan.co.uk
Ruth wrote: We are in the process of ordering a new computer. Most of the bits are coming from Scan. Now, their range is lovely, and their postage policy is reasonably sensible, but they have a dumb...
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Matt R wrote: Guys, I really need your support here and I know that it’s very last minute. There’s a comedy open mic night tomorrow in The Angel and, not only am I performing in one of the slots, I’m...
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Sian wrote: I’m hoping to get a laptop for me birthday, any suggestions people who know about these things? Before I end up buying one just because it’s pink or has Hello Kitty on it or something. I...
View Article[Reply] Contraception advice please Claire Q!
Liz wrote: A huge thank you to everyone who posted support last week. I felt alot better knowing that other people believed me. Thankfully simon believed me too and the whole thing has made us a lot...
View Article[Reply] Dumping for Dummies
Ruth wrote: Wow, it’s been nearly a month since I put finger to key for the sake of this old thing. In case anyone’s wondering, I was feeling hurt and a bit isolated due to the total lack of concern...
View Article[Reply] strange dream
Beth wrote: Last night I had an utterly bizarre dream in which I was at the Q party, which for some reason was at Dan and Claire’s huge sprawling country bungalow. The sun was shining and everyone was...
View Article[Reply] 8 words
Ruth wrote: Coming out to my mother as bisexual was something I thought about for years before finally taking the plunge. Braced for tears and recriminations, I was amazed and pleased to be greeted...
View Article[Reply] What is a “Bag of Choppy”?
dobegood posted to Reddit: My mum just used the phrase “we’d be in for a bucket of custard.” I’m not sure if this is a real phrase or she’s having a stroke. Please advise. dobegood My mother once...
View Article[Reply] Reply to Hardware Issue – when did hard drive space get like this?
Hardware Issue (Aquarionics) So, I am a professional system administrator. It says it on my business cards and everything. Every couple of months, when I have to explain to the receptionist at the...
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a kind of synth bagpipe on Twitter (Twitter) “the local part of my email address is just the letter 'd' by itself, which means microsoft has imposed the interesting restriction that my randomly...
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[Reply] Goodbye Google Analytics, Hello Fathom
Big news! This site is no longer using Google Analytics and I’ve switched to a self-hosted version of brand new analytics product Fathom. Fathom is very simple. It only tracks 4 things: Unique...
View Article[Reply] Reply to: A modern font loading strategy with the vanilla JS...
Chris Ferdinandi‘s daily tip for yesterday addressed a common familiar to Web developers using custom fonts (i.e. basically all of them): In many browsers, if a custom typeface is declared but hasn’t...
View Article[Reply] Reply to: Indelible
Bryn wrote: … The surgery had happened at a weirdly transitional point in my life. Only a few days earlier I’d performed improv on stage for the first time (see “Yes And” and “Memory Lane“), I’d...
View Article[Reply] Reply to @ADumbGreyHam
Adam Graham tweeted: @scatmandan I’ve just been in a meeting with with some people who were saying some very positive things about the legacy of work your dad (I think) did with buses in the North...
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Jeremy posted a note to say: Levelled up my blood donation game! You can challenge my score here: https://www.blood.co.uk Jeremy Keith This looks like a perfect use for the “donation” post type. I’m...
View Article[Reply] Reply to “I was permanently banned by Facebook”
Donncha Ó Caoimh said: My Facebook account was permanently banned on Wednesday along with all the people who take care of the Cork Skeptics page. We’re still not sure why but it might have something...
View Article[Reply] Reply to An Accidentally ‘Anti-January’ January
Siobhan said: I fell off the blogging bandwagon just as everyone else was hopping onto it. … Siobhan Bamber I was just thinking the same! It felt like everybody and their dog did Bloganuary last...
View Article[Reply] Reply to OpenID for WP
On 14 April 2006, Matt Mullenweg said: OpenID for WordPress plugin This weekend I was experimentally reimplenting how my blog displays comments. For testing I needed to find an old post with both...
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[Reply] How to date a recording using background electrical noise
We’re going to use ENF matching to answer the question “here’s a recording, when was it was (probably) taken?” I say “probably” because all that ENF matching can give us is a statistical best guess,...
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[Reply] Reply to Decentralization and verification
In “Decentralization and verification”, Derek Kedziora said: …Mastodon by its very nature as a decentralized service can’t verify accounts. We’d still need some trusted third party to do offline...
View Article[Reply] Reply to The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions
In his blog post “The ethics of syndicating comments using WebMentions”, Terence Eden said: … I want to see what people are writing in public about my posts. I also want to direct people to the...
View Article[Reply] Reply to: Mobile writing, part 2
Clayton Errington wrote: After a first attempt at mobile blogging, I found a process that works better for my work flow. Throughout the day, I have ideas and need to write them down. This could be a...
View Article[Reply] If you’ve ever found yourself missing the “good old days” of the web,...
Jason Weill said: Molly White said: If you’ve ever found yourself missing the “good old days” of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret “it” broadly: specific websites? types of activities?...
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[Reply] SkiFreeeeeeee
Rob Vincent said: COME PLAY SOLITAIRE WITH US. Rob Vincent I always preferred SkiFree!
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