Scatmania

This weekend, my sister Sarah challenged me to define the difference between Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. And the more I talked about the differences between them, the more I realised that I don't have a concrete definition, and I don't think that anybody else does either.



After

https://danq.me/2020/02/24/xr/

I last handed in a dissertation almost 16 years ago; that one marked the cumulation of my academic work at Aberystwyth University, then the "University of Wales, Aberystwyth". Since then I've studied programming, pentesting and psychology (the P-subject Triathalon?)... before returning to

https://danq.me/2020/02/09/dissertation-hand-in-2/

I keep my life pretty busy and don't get as much "outside" as I'd like, but when I do I like to get out on an occasional geohashing expedition (like these ones). I (somewhat badly) explained geohashing in the vlog attached to my expedition 2018-08-07 51 -1, but the short version is this: an xkcd

https://danq.me/2020/02/06/geohashing/

Last week I built Fox, the newest addition to our home network. Fox, whose specification called for not one, not two, not three but four 12 terabyte hard disk drives was built principally as a souped-up NAS device - a central place for us all to safely hold and control access to important files

https://danq.me/2020/01/23/fox/

A recent observation by Phil Gyford reminded me of a recurring thought I've had. He wrote:
While being driven around England it struck me that humans are currently like the filling in a sandwich between one slice of machine — the satnav — and another — the car. Before the invention of sandwiches t

https://danq.me/2020/01/13/sandwichware/

Since I reported last summer that I’d accepted a job offer with Automattic I've been writing about my experience of joining and working with Automattic on a nice, round 128-day schedule.

My first post covered the first 128 days: starting from the day I decided (after 15 years of w

https://danq.me/2020/01/05/automattic-01/

This is part of a series of posts on computer terminology whose popular meaning - determined by surveying my friends - has significantly diverged from its original/technical one. Read more evolving words...

The language we use is always changing, like how the word "cute" was originally a

https://danq.me/2019/11/12/gif/

This is part of a series of posts on computer terminology whose popular meaning - determined by surveying my friends - has significantly diverged from its original/technical one. Read more evolving words...

Until the 17th century, to "fathom" something was to embrace it. Nowadays, it's more

https://danq.me/2019/11/05/broadband/

I now have no doubt that from the summit of Table Mountain is an absolutely unparalleled place from which to watch the sunset. 🇿🇦🌅😍



Original: https://danq.me/2019/11/03/16034/

This is part of a series of posts on computer terminology whose popular meaning - determined by surveying my friends - has significantly diverged from its original/technical one. Read more evolving words...

A few hundred years ago, the words "awesome" and "awful" were synonyms. From their

https://danq.me/2019/10/31/virus/