message query for .xml

My RSS feed

My RSS feed is now here, and up to date, thanks Muddyfunkster for the tip off that it had not been updating... if you have the bookmark for the old feed you should be forwarded automatically...48 subscribers? Really?...

Google mapping cars in Folkestone?

Tesselate says google mapping cars (that they're using to do the street view on google maps) are "about", not sure if that means Folkestone. Just wondered if she was a Google employee, as we have the google mapping cars about now, and I guess it woul...

Lovely wedding!

Went to a wedding at the weekend, and it was lovely. Got out of work early Friday, trained up to meet Clare at Auberge, then a step around the corner to The Wellington at Waterloo to get a real ale, then another step around another corner to a pub th...

Folkestone pub mapplet

Heard of Mapplets? No? Used Google maps though haven't you? Wouldn't you like to add the Folkestone pub map without having to visit this site? You can! add it to your map. Now you can find a local pub (or in lots of other towns actually) from with Go...

ouch

Limited updates from me today, just shut my finger in the car door, so only my left hand is in action.Not broken, but can't type so well. Oh dear, can't do the housework either.Made my first mapplet on Friday. Going to investigate more, mapplets and ...

Today I invented a brilliant new thing, called "podcasts"

Was surfing for news of Kid Rock yesterday, as a friend has been working with him and I was wondering if she'd show up in any paparazzi shots of him stumbling out of nightclubs or anything. No joy there, but he was interviewed by the Guardian yesterd...

everything is json these days

I can remember the day I first heard of it and didn't see the benefit of it at all but now I use it for everything (like the folkestone map), I have a feed of absolutely everything on the site as json... Think I might need to change my neat urls to a...

Never mind the KML

All that talk of KML yesterday got me looking at my maps again, they've not worked for ages, not since I added more tagging to all my Folkestone venues... so, not actually using the new kml version of the data, rather old georss xml versions, but at ...

KML

Created some kml files from my pub / restaurant data on Folkestone Gerald, part of my plan to clean up my maps and things, kml is a standard that's been adopted by google for google earth and maps and things, and is possibly better suited than my exi...

Some popbitch updates

Had a quiet night in last night, while Clare was out down Chambers with her bro, putting the world to rights. So, did some coding that I'd meant to do for ages, and put a new "new" feature on the popbitch board; posts that are new since your last vis...

popbitch redesign and contest!

See the contest on the homepage, don't enter it though, I want to win! If you really want a Gibson Les Paul, make a video and win a Slash limited edition.Everyone hates the new design. It's not my design, it's not really anyone's any more, bits have ...

Weather report part two

Ferocious rain woke us both up in the night, a proper downpour again. Clare got the fear that the weather might have resulted in our pilot light going out (it happened before), which would mean waking up to cold showers, so I got up to check on it. W...

RE: the text entry box is just something I was trying out at work

No-one reads the blog in situ any more, do they? It's all RSS and things isn't it? Actually that would mean that the maps and things don't even work, and AFAIK you do have to come here to post a message, so ignore me.Ten years, that's a long time, th...

New JSON feed of my blog

Oh that'll come in handy for all those mashups based around me you've been planning... Not a straight feed of what I post every day, it searches the content of the site, probably seven or eight years worth of postings now. JSON is "javascript object ...

Programming is a poetry for our time

A fairly new song up on MJ Hibbett's youtube channel, not actually a new song, nor actually even new to youtube as it's been up there for a few days already, but hey I've not seen it and you probably haven't either, so let's pretend it's all new and ...

Why is MJ Hibbett not showing up on my "blogroll"?

I've been using social bookmarking site del.icio.us to handle my links to other sites forever, getting (for example) a feed of my links tagged "blogs" and then filtering out just links I've given a rating too. I've saved MJ Hibbett so why's it not sh...

Oh yes, I just noticed an enormous traffic spike

I must have submit my rss to podcast.com a while ago when I posted some mp3's... you want to be filtering out the feeds you use, looking to see if they really do have enclosures of the right type.Or maybe I should look at my feed, I think I probably ...

Ouch!

Bit my lip this morning eating my breakfast in a hurry, drew blood and everything, and also the work I did at the weekend fixing my xml namespaces in jquery doesn't work now I've transferred it to work...Great weekend though, did our usual lunch at W...

RE: xml namespaces in jquery

i dont have an answer to your q (sorry) but was wondering what you make of jquery? i've just started a new project for upmystreet and we're using prototype/scriptaculous but just had a look at the jquery site and it looks quite neat. when are we goin...

xml namespaces in jquery

How do I access xml tags in other namespaces using jquery? If I have some xml like: hey yeah woo I can easily get any of the elements with something like $('thing')but how do I get them if the elements are namespaced, like hey yea...

I'm not filtering google's own "local" info

I have my own database of bars and restaurants and things, and an xml interface to it, see:

www.folkestonegerald.com/php/xml.php?table=venue

A big feature on Roger DeHaan and Folkestone in today's paper

Here in the Telegraph, written by Country Life's editor at large...

RE: Up to our HIPs (geddit?!?!?)

Surely stopping the wife from scoring a perfect 10 simply out of spite is a sackable offence?Back from Rome now, and knee deep in javacript and xml driven menus. Soul destroying stuff.....bring on the weekend and Taste!www.channel4.com/life/microsite...

What a Hampton Wick

Oh dear, be careful with your sat nav (particularly if you are visiting me from Fareham this weekend) and don't make the same mistake as this Fareham coach driver. Instead of taking a party of school children to Hampton Court, he ended up round the b...

Folkestone is no longer simply a ferry terminal and is poised to become a desirable seaside town

So says The Telegraph, have a look round quite a swanky pad here...

Sleep easy families of South London

This gun crime problem among your children is surely close to resolution - BBC Breakfast today had the UK's least famous man Richard Blackwood in to give his point of view. I can only assume they had a real guest lined up who pulled out at the last m...

Working!

Great weekend visiting family and friends, more on which later, I am pressed for time now I'm back working full time! Started yesterday, am learning all the systems, mostly PHP and XML no problems at all. It's a great place to work, huge and modern b...

Rated 6.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Radio drama

Here's that radio drama I mentioned last week, it's a 7meg download. It's rubbish, but if you're subscribed to here via the medium of RSS, you might get it downloaded automatically podcast stylee.I'm still having trouble getting this working on vario...

Thursday morning roundup

Just caught the end of something on BBC Breakfast, advice on blogging and work, or why not to blog about work, something like that. A few sites / posts were held up as bad examples, I wasn't one of them, it was all fairly basic stuff:* Don't be posti...

some xsl links

Just moving between one computer and another where I can't access my email!Intro to XSLXSL quick reference PDFXSLT standard library, at SourceForgeXSLT terminologyTree view XML node explainicatorNice XSLT primer...