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 least the map is all working again now.

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 existing georss feeds. I say possibly, because at the moment I'm not sure these even work, and look, see the georss versions support tags and things. AND OBVIOUSLY, it's just XML, and what do you care about that? Not a great deal. You could plug them straight into google maps or something, but they're not a great thing in their own right, like any feeds, they're just snippets of information that will be used by some other application, not directly by you, but I thought I'd throw them out there. This is the sort of thing I'm doing, it's all of the format

www.folkestonegerald.com/v/ Place / thing you are looking for .kml

They might be a bit slow

Food in Folkestone

Pubs in Folkestone

Vegetarian food in Folkestone

Pubs with gardens in Folkestone

Food in Sandgate

Pubs in Sandgate

Vegetarian food in Sandgate

Pubs with gardens in Sandgate

Food in Hythe

Pubs in Hythe

Vegetarian food in Hythe

Pubs with gardens in Hythe

Food in Canterbury

Pubs in Canterbury

Vegetarian food in Canterbury

Pubs with gardens in Canterbury

Food in Dover

Pubs in Dover

Vegetarian food in Dover

Pubs with gardens in Dover

Food in Fareham

Pubs in Fareham

Vegetarian food in Fareham

Pubs with gardens in Fareham

In the interest of being able to read back on this in years to come and reminisce about what was going on, I should have said something about the weather recently I think. But, I blinked, and it's gone now. Got a barbecue lined up for this Saturday, but I think that's going to be eaten indoors now. Hopefully today's rain is just a blip and a real summer will come back some time next month. A table tennis table appeared just outside my office window at some point while we were in Key West for staff to relieve tension on, but that's had to be hastily dragged under cover today when the rain started. We've not had any of the storms that were promised for the rest of the country yet though, have you?

Very busy with stuff at work right now, have been since we had this reshuffle a couple of weeks back really, lots of meetings and things, but just TONNES of work to do to. Have lots of interesting things that we want to do, but now the development team (all the teams in fact) have been split in two each team seems to have less than half the resources we had as a combined team. Maybe just an illusion though.

We are recruiting! If you are a development type in Kent, or are happy to work in Kent, please leave a message or drop me an email. We particularly want some PHP skills, but as long as you are professional we are flexible, there is more than one vacancy. A proper job ad will be going out soon but if you want to jump the queue get in touch.

Nice one Bruce!

These all sound a bit high to me, found an auction of rock memorabilia:

Soundproofing from Abbey Road GBP850+, signed KISS album, GBP3-400. Madonna platinum album GBP500+, these things are so common, our old office was stuffed with them. Guess if you have a particularly good album it's interesting, or one that you worked on, but otherwise there's no way I'd buy one of these.

No I'm not just bitter because lots of people are seeing Madonna today in Maidstone , for free, lots of people from work too. Hope you had a great time if you were there. Bah.

Oof Frank Zappa's guitar, GBP70,000+... Happy bidding!

Meanwhile the PLANS for "My Exciting Life In ROCK", our Edinburgh Fringe Show, are moving along. I think I've pretty much worked out which songs and which stories will be featured, as well as how it's all going to hang together. I've not tried it out properly yet though!

If you fancy coming along, it'll be at the Medina, August 4th-9th - I'm hoping to do some previews beforehand too, but I'll let you know about them when I know myself!