Dan Q - The Podcast

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/05/21/wp25-yousuf-karsh/<br><br>Wikipedia is 25 years old this year, and in celebration of that I found my way via a Mercurial crater to the article about Yousuf...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/05/20/wp25-necker-island/<br><br>Today, thanks to Wikipedia, I learned a lot about a miniscule Hawaiian island with an interesting cultural and archaeological...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/05/19/wp25-lake-baikal/<br><br>Today's random Wikipedia article was about a kind of seal that lives only in Lake Baikal in Siberia, which turns out to be a really...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/05/17/wp25-yo-yo/<br><br>This year is Wikipedia's 25th birthday, and as part of the celebrations I learned who Marcus Koh is... but that wasn't remotely as...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/05/15/wp25-rail-in-indonesia/<br><br>Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday, and today I'm celebrating by discovering what the Argo Wilis is, along with a dive...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/05/14/wp25-wesley-merritt/<br><br>Wikipedia is celebrating its 25th birthday, and somehow as a result I ended up reading about Wesley Merritt, who was the...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/01/15/nostalgia-music-and-computers/<br><br>It turns out that I get nostalgic about technology in the same way as I get nostalgic about music. Here's some things...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2026/01/09/why-i-am-so-tired/<br><br>After dusting off and modernising a joke I first read in a chain email from 1996, I can tell you conclusively that the reason that...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/12/18/actually-yes/<br><br>There's a certain kind of person who, upon hearing my unusual name, immediately asks whether that's what's on my birth certificate (with...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/09/04/the-beer-token/<br><br>Thanks to the success of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy, we can never forget quite how much beer you used to be able to get for...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/08/28/hexagonal-cheese-scones/<br><br>A poem about the shape of a scone.<br><br>00:00 Intro<br /> 00:30 Hexagonal Cheese Scones<br /> 01:13 Outro

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/<br><br>When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/03/29/delivery-songs/<br><br>In the UK, ice cream vans are perhaps the only delivery service with their own jingle. Turkey and India are WAY ahead of us in this...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/03/14/work-slippers/<br><br>Last month, the dog ate my slippers, and in the week it took me to replace them my work productivity took a dip. Coincidence? Nope...

Based on an original blog post at: https://danq.me/2025/02/28/ai-vs-the-expert/<br><br>Inspired by an 11-year old comedy sketch, I asked a GenAI to solve an unsolvable programming problem... and (for at least some...