Tag Archives: letters

A New Keyboard

The 'keyboard' that Adam had sent.

Dan already owns the best mouse in the world. Maybe it’s time for a new keyboard, too. But what’s this? Not what he expected, that’s for sure… Continue reading

HDMI Virus, or How I Became An Old Person

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HDMI cables are over-marketed at the best of times. But Dan’s just discovered one that goes one step further, claiming to do the fundamentally impossible. And then, like an old person, he writes an irate letter. Continue reading

Poly and the Census – Success! (almost)

After much to-ing and fro-ing, the Freedom of Information Act request that a fellow blogger made to the Office of National Statistics, on the subject of households with individuals in non-monogamous relationships or with non-binary genders, has begun to yield results. Dan comments on the findings. Continue reading

Poly and the Census – Part Four

More fun and games in Zoe’s quest to get meaningful information out of the Office of National Statistics, about how census data reflects non-monogamous and non-heteronormative relationships. Continue reading

Poly and the Census – Part Three

Dan hears back – albeit only via somebody else’s Freedom of Information Act request – to his concerns about the possible treatment of polyamorous households by the Office of National Statistics during this year’s census. And he’s not happy. Continue reading

Poly and the Census – Part Two

Still no reply from the Office of National Statistics… but somebody’s put in a Freedom of Information request now asking a very similar question. Continue reading

Poly and the Census

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Dan engages in a little polyamory activism, writing to the Office of National Statistics to ask for their assurances that the data submitted on the census he shares with the other Earthlings will be correctly recorded and that the fact that his partner has ticked both the “partner” and “husband or wife” boxes (for different people) will not be treated as a mistake. I wonder what they’ll have to say about that… Continue reading

Postcard From Kit And Fi

Received a postcard this morning from Kit & Fi, and it’s as much to many of you lot as it is to me, so I’ll relay it to you here: [CLASSIFIED - OPERATION TROMA // EYES ONLY] Dear Dan, Claire, Paul, Bryn + Ruth, JTA,… Continue reading

Parcel Of Goodies

[this post was lost during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004; it was recovered on 21st March 2012] Woo and indeed hoo. Just when I was about to wander down to Richley’s and take advantage of their sale on jeans (having had a… Continue reading