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I’m looking at a listing for a ¼” to ⅝” screw adapter, for which the seller warns that I should “please allow 1-3cm error”.

A 3cm error would mean that a ⅝” screw could result in a screw thread anywhere between 1⅘” and… minus half an inch, I guess? (I don’t even know how to make the concept of negative lengths fit into my brain.)

I suppose this seller could send me an empty envelope and declare that it contained an infinitesimally small adapter. At which point… I’d be the one that was screwed!

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Notes – Dan Q

01 Oct 2025 at 16:44

[Note] Egencia Mailing List Accessibility

A special level of accessibility failure on Egencia‘s mailing list subscription management page: the labels for choosing which individual mailing lists to subscribe to are properly-configured, but the “unsubscribe all” one isn’t. Click the words “unsubscribe all” and… nothing happens.

But it gets better: try keyboard-navigating through the form, and it’s hard not to unsubscribe from everything, even if you didn’t want to! As soon as the “unsubscribe all” checkbox gets focus, you get instantly unsubscribed: no interaction necessary.

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Notes – Dan Q

01 Oct 2025 at 09:06

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We made it to the end of another Bleptember, with a photo every day of my especially-bleppy young doggo.

Thanks for coming along for the ride. See you next year!

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Notes – Dan Q

30 Sep 2025 at 11:15

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Somehow, even when she’s alert and focussed, our dog’s bleppy tongue makes her look at least a little bit dopey.

It’s the Twenty-Ninth of Bleptember; we’re almost done for another year!

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Notes – Dan Q

29 Sep 2025 at 10:03

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It’s a little wet and miserable this Twenty-Eighth of Bleptember, but what really perturbed this bleppy doggo was somebody she didn’t recognise moving a wheelie-bin outside their house. What could they want? Can they be trusted? Might they have ham? 🐶

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Notes – Dan Q

28 Sep 2025 at 08:49

[Note] Q, Like…

Sometimes people connect my unusual name to popular culture. They say things like “Oh, Q like James Bond?” or “Oh, Q like Star Trek?”.

I think their choice of franchise tells me more about them than they learn from my answer, which is usually “No, Q like the set of rational numbers.”

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Notes – Dan Q

28 Sep 2025 at 08:36

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Sometimes you’re Just Tired. It’s been a long week. Happy Twenty-Seventh of Bleptember.

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Notes – Dan Q

27 Sep 2025 at 16:00

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Just a mini-blep this Twenty-Sixth of Bleptember, from a certain attention-seeking doggo who insisted on a cuddle from me while I sat in a Zoom meeting.

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Notes – Dan Q

26 Sep 2025 at 10:57