🆕 [Repost] Setting the width of selects to the width of the selected option 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/22/setting-the-width-of-selects-to-the-width-of-the-selected-option/ Sometimes a new CSS feature comes along and I immediately "get it". Like: that's a cool new feature, I can
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC9P505 Paddington Bear & friends (Leicester Square) 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gc9p505-paddington-bear-friends-leicester-square/ A morning meander around the local (mostly virtual) caches under the guise of checking the condition of the West End Live
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GCB5KK7 Shakespeare Fountain 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gcb5kk7-shakespeare-fountain/ A morning meander around the local (mostly virtual) caches under the guise of checking the condition of the West End Live queue, while the rest of my group enjoyed a lie
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GCBJ704 Seven Dials Sundial 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gcbj704-seven-dials-sundial/ Approaching from the West I was foiled by the glare of the rising sun in my efforts to claim this fascinating monument from afar and eventually had to walk all the way pas
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC38EQ3 Underground 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gc38eq3-underground/ Initially thought I'd be able to find this one without the hint, but when I couldn't get fix to closer than 8m I took a peep at it and was instantly aware of where to search. So
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC240NQ West End 1 – The Beatles 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gc240nq-west-end-1-the-beatles/ Stood around for a bit reading about David Bowie while I waited for the waitstaff -on their pre-work fag break down the alleyway - stopped their muggling and wen
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GC5E4E Catastrophe, Calamity, Cataclysm Part 4 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gc5e4e-catastrophe-calamity-cataclysm-part-4/ Can't do the physical today, but scooping a pic with the virtual during a morning walk around the neighbourhood.
🆕 [Checkin] Dan Q found GCAJJCJ Piccadilly Circus (Virtual Reward 4.0) ツ 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/21/dan-q-found-gcajjcj-piccadilly-circus-virtual-reward-4-0-%e3%83%84/ After nine hours on my feet yesterday queuing for and then attending the first day of West End Live in Trafalgar Square,
🆕 [Note] Bus LAN 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/20/bus-lan/ Star network topologies are more common, but you can still occasionally find these… ×
🆕 [Note] Theatreland Double Takes 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/20/theatreland-double-takes/ Hanging out in London’s theatreland, attracting double-takes (and a handful of thumbs-ups!) for my t-shirt… ×
🆕 [Note] 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/20/29501/ The hours of queuing pays off! Let’s go! ×
🆕 [Note] West End Live queue 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/20/west-end-live-queue/ Back of the queue for West End Live. It’s gonna be a long wait, but hopefully worth it! ×
🆕 [Note] 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/19/29497/ Off to London for a couple of days of musical theatre fun! Don’t wait up! ×
🆕 [Note] F-Day plus 125 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/18/f-day-plus-125/ 125 days since our house flooded, and the damaged furniture fittings, floors, underfloors, and now inner walls have been torn out.Over a third of a year since we had to move out, I’m optimistic that perhaps, at last, recon
🆕 [Note] 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/17/29482/ 🎶 It starts with sausage, A hot dog in a bun. One simple sausage, Put some mustard on one…Is it just me, or are (sinner) Sir Pentious‘s colours reminiscent of a hot dog? ×
🆕 [Note] The chair guardian 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/16/the-chair-guardian/ I guess it’s sweet that the dog has decided that I’m not to leave my home office without her noticing. But when the naps right behind my wheelie chair I worry she’s going to get her paws run over! ×
🆕 [Repost] Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/16/elon-musk-human-ponzi-scheme/ With thanks to Mark Palko for sharing: this seems like a spot-on observation of Musk's career. Wouldn't it be nice if the world's first trillionaire also happened to be the world
🆕 [Repost] Ad Infinitum 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/15/ad-infinitum/ An excellent article by Matthias Ott describes Google's promised AI-first search experience, which dispenses with search results entirely and just uses an LLM (plus sponsored content seamlessly woven in), keeping you enti
🆕 [Repost] New social media restrictions 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/15/new-social-media-restrictions/ Despite being parody, diamond geezer's new age-gating - which e.g. asks for personal information but, obviously, doesn't actually block access to the site - somehow perfectly straddl
🆕 [Note] Tango Two 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/13/tango-two/ Making another attempt at learning to tango, this time at a more-beginner, more-local class. It’s still super hard but he makes me question whether I even know how to walk, let alone dance, but I love it so much!
🆕 [Article] My Polyamory is Boring 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/12/polyamory-is-boring/ A conversation with another openly-polyamorous blogger led us to ask one another why we don't write about our relationship structure more-often. In my case, the answer is simple: my relationships are bor
🆕 [Note] Remembering the 90s Web 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/11/remembering-the-90s-web/ This morning I had a lovely meeting with Andreas Marakis, who's researching the sociological impact of the Web of the 1990s on people who experienced it first-hand. I'm seeing more and more intere
🆕 [Reply] Is midnight in the middle of the night? 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/10/is-midnight-in-the-middle-of-the-night/ Niki wondered whether "midnight" is actually the middle of the night and discovered that it pretty much is. I explain that this is because he's in Berlin, whic
🆕 [Repost] I want my friends to have blogs too 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/09/i-want-my-friends-to-have-blogs-too/ Daniel loves blogs and loves blogging, but wishes that more of the people in his 'real life' blogged too. I get it, Daniel!
🆕 [Note] F-Day plus 115 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/08/f-day-plus-115/ 115 days since our house flood, the beginnings of the very first of the remedial works are taking place. Today, builders will drill through and lift part of a cracked poured-concrete foundation to work out what's beneat
🆕 [Article] F-Day plus 113 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/06/f-day-plus-113/ It's been 113 days since my house flooded and it's almost time for repair work to start! But first, I've got some repair work of my own to do: to a desk that needs moving and to a laptop that's misbehaving.
🆕 [Repost] AI is not a person 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/09/ai-is-not-a-person/ And it's important to remember that. Chris Ferdinandi has some direct words, and I expand upon them.
🆕 [Article] I Hate (Most) Keyboard ‘Fn’ Keys 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/09/fn-keys/ Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and co
🆕 [Note] F-Day plus 109 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/08/f-day-plus-109/ 109 days since our house flood, the beginnings of the very first of the remedial works are taking place. Today, builders will drill through and lift part of a cracked poured-concrete foundation to work out what’s beneath a
🆕 [Article] So Unbelievable it Sounds Like you Googled It 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/06/07/sounds-like-you-googled-it/ DeGoogling is so... 2010s. Let's make the 2020s the decade where we redefine Google as a verb. In the age of AI-first search, "to Google" now ought to give a nod t