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Glastonbury tickets back on sale?

How does this work then? Got this from seetickets.com, buying from ticketmaster would help me out, I didn't think Glastonbury tickets would be publicly available like this:

GLASTONBURY 2008
The biggest and best festival in the world is upon us and tickets are available now! We also have a full range of coach AND train packages on sale, you can even pick your times of departure from one of the many towns available all over the UK. Click below to buy your tickets.
http://www.seetickets.com/g2008/

**REGISTRATION FOR TICKETS HAS NOW RE-OPENED** So if you missed out the first time you can now register to get your hands on the hottest tickets around. Click below to register.
www.glastonburyregistration.co.uk

Also while I'm here, want to play at Radio One's big weekend in Maidstone?

Google / Yahoo MERGER!

Well, no actually, not at all but Google are serving ads on some of Yahoo's pages. What about Yahoo serving ads in Google's "slots" (like the ones on this page)? I want more different ads served up here, so more people are likely to click on them and then I'll make some money!

While I'm doing news, I'm loving all the Olympic disruption, not quite sure why. Not a great fan of the Olympics like the wife is, it does seem a lot of money's being spent there that could be used more usefully elsewhere. It's great that massive corporate effort being put into promoting China is backfiring, it feels like the little guy is benefiting from all the publicity.

Also this new episode of Shameless is not as funny as I'd been led to believe. Can't find much on TV right now that I like, we're still going on with Boston Legal and edumacating ourselves with The World At War.

It's a special day today at work, not one of our "fun days", but we have a load of corporate guests in so we've all been asked to put a clean shirt on and tidy our desks and stuff. There's a huge old marquee in the carpark for a lunch for the guests, so there's no parking, so we have busses running staff to and from the motorway services. Also Kriss Akabusi is in to do an after dinner speech. No, not "awooga", that was John Fashanu on Gladiators you massive racist.

Great Pot Noodle Ad

Just seen it on www.popbitch.com. Go there and click the ads, they need it right now...

RE: Ricky Gervais XFM radio show MP3s

The earliest available recording is indeed from the 10th November 2001 although this has never been on the XFM website. The earliest show they've ever made available was from 12th January 2002.

The Ricky Gervais Show started in September 2001, the first few shows have never been found and are never likely to be.

Gervais did join XFM in 1997 but was fired a year later when the Capital Group took over. In that time he only did a few months worth of shows with Stephen Merchant, Karl Pilkington was not involved at that time.

I have a website where you can listen to more than 80 shows they did between 2001 and 2005. If you wanna check it out click the link below.

The Ricky Gervais Show XFM Vault

Radio Popbitch

There is streaming radio on popbitch today, click on the "radio popbitch" link... The site proper at www.radiopopbitch.com is still admin only right now.

Ah yes we have Edward Windebank born 1820

here he is, click around from there. So are we cousins or WHAT?

And next time you respond to "sadly disappointed with La Tavernetta"

Please click on the subject and edit it, the whole point was to get rid of the phrase sadly disappointed with La Tavernetta from the website...

Photo notes

This aquariam post is using the Flickr style notes, but using PhotoNotes, still seems there's no way of getting your existing notes out of Flickr.

Changing the way I use my images on here, to make sure I'm not breaching Flickr's terms of service, might mean some images missing from here, and that you have to click through, let's see:

Flickr interactive adventure game

I haven't made one, but I was just attaching some notes to this picture (think you have to be logged into Flickr to see them, and using the notes to contextually link to other pictures, and it made me think, couldn't someone write some kind of adventure game based on this principle? Just a game that uses that "click on this bit of the picture to go here" is pretty primitive, but is there anything like this using Flickr already?

You have to view the picture on Flickr's site for the full effect, there's no API to the \"notes\" yet I don't think (I can add a note but not read back the existing notes), and as I say you have to be logged in and possibly have to be one of my Flickr chums too.

[Crystal maze themed headline here]

Got home yesterday to find a new front door being fitted, it's amazing what you miss when you don't go to any of the residents meetings. So firstly, we have the inconvenience of only getting one key with this door, and new ones are fifteen pounds each, bah. Secondly, in a fit of security consciousness one of the neighbours double locked the door, so when Clare was running for her train this morning she SLAMMED into the front door. Well, metaphorically anyway, she didn't actually hit the door but it slowed her right down as she was wekk and truly locked in, had to phone up for me, and I had to run down with the only key. In my pants.

Got to have a word with the neighbour, no-one can lock that door like that, in case there's a fire. Reminds me of the time in Stokey when I got locked in the hallway all afternoon, I must have blogged it, yes there it is.

Here is the new front door:

Ooh, new feature, now getting comments on a picture direct from flickr.com, if I've posted one of my pictures that is hosted on flick. See those comments just above this paragraph. They'll be updated automatically when someone inevitably adds an obscene comment to that picture... Now if only I could get notes for a picture too.

UPDATE: Removed this from the main blog page but if you click through you get the full effect.

RE: Plymouth Pavillion

Hello , for some reason you hsve listed the Folkestone Pavilion as the venue for ceroc classes.. it is highlighted, and when i click on it it is listed as the plymouth pavilion! big difference i am sure you will agree! we visited the folkestone pavilion to attend the ceroc class but it was all closed up and hasnt hosted the ceroc classes for some months!! i then telephoned their sister restaurand in Hythe to be told the same thing. please can you amend your details to stop further ceroc fans travelling to the wrong venue on the wrong evening.
Thank you
dillydaly

Where we walked yesterday

Not very far, but if you click through you can track me yesterday. We got the bus to Canterbury and the GPS was turned off on the bus so the whole route isn't plotted, still playing about with my mapping. Just posted some photos of our walk to Capel the other day, they're all geotagged so I'll get them onto my own maps asap.

Map loading here, where I went with my GPS on 05/01/2008, the last 1000 locations anyway...

Was great to go back again, we even made our first steps towards looking at a house there today, so might do that next Saturday. Had lunch in Wagamama, though for the first time ever I wasn't that impressed. Noodles were a bit firm, but HEY, we had a VOUCHER, so one meal came free.
Waggas was very busy, everyone must have had a voucher.

The Dolphin was also busy, all the tables were taken except the one by the toilet, and (as nice a place as it is) that toilet does hum a bit, so we headed to Simple Simon's instead. This meant no game of Triv for Clare, but luckily in her weakened state she was in no position to argue, so I had a smashing pint of Old Peculiar in the old man-ish surroundings, with the fire roaring and everything.

Didn't buy much, didn't see anything exciting in the sales, and Clare was too ill to shop, she shouldn't have been out really.

Also went to the big new B & Q in Folkestone today too, which is huge and ace. I bought some cable ties, but in my mind I was buying stuff to operate the whole place by remote control.

map test

Map loading here, where I went with my GPS on 28/12/2007, the last 1000 locations anyway...

If you click through that bit of code there will hopefully be translated into a map, with a route showing where I walked that day, and maybe pictures I took along the way. A work in progress, so probably not working yet.

My gigography

Just done some fiddling about on the site, rearranged the gigography a tiny bit. Now, first time you go there the big boring explanation of what it's all about should still appear at the top of the page. BUT, here's the clever bit, if you then click on a year to move around it a bit, this bit stays down the bottom of the page, out of your way, you'll not want to read it again probably.

Do you want to see the code for this? Probably not, but still

var r = document.referrer;
if ( r && r.indexOf( "misc/gigography" ) == -1 ) { 
  // if we came from a page outside of the gigography section
  $('h1.title').after( $('#gigographyExplanation') );
  // move the gigography explanation up to the top just after the title...
}

The formatting of that looks a lot better when you click through.

Still got lots more old popex news pieces to go through, that will give me clues to just where I was between 1998 and the time I started this blog...

I can't find "The Last Golden Arrow"

Can you tell me the link where you saw this?

UPDATE:

NEW! Saturday 19th January 2008 - 'THE GOLDEN ARROW' to Folkestone and Canterbury
Departing from: Coventry (06.40/23.30) Leamington Spa (07.20/23.10) Banbury (07.45/22.50) Bicester North (08.05/22.35) Haddenham & Thame (08.20/22.25) Princes Risborough (08.30/22.15) High Wycombe (08.45/22.00) Ealing Broadway (09.20/21.15)
This is a train with a real �wow� factor that any steam enthusiast would not want to miss as we take a circular tour of over 200 miles hauled by Southern Railway Battle of Britain Pacific 34067 �Tangmere� complete with the Golden Arrow flags & regalia. Features include an enchanting winter journey through the picturesque garden of England and along the White Cliffs of Dover � with a stopover of around two hours to discover medieval Canterbury, the highlight of this tour being the 1 in 30 steam hauled climb up the soon to be closed branch from Folkestone Harbour. During the time in Folkestone we have arranged an additional photographic run up the fearsome incline enabling passengers the rare opportunity to view this historic event from the harbour side.
click for full details and secure online booking >>>

www.kingfisherrailtours.co.uk/

RE: These are 'official' petitions

Its good. Click on info' and comms'.I have signed quite a few

10 myths about vegans

www.bboheme.com (who I once bought some shoes from) emailed me today to tell me it's world vegan day and to share with me an advert for their shoes and things, cunningly wrapped in a "10 Myths about Vegans" list. They know bloggers love lists like free London papers like made up opinion polls, and will republish them at every opportunity, so here goes:

1. Vegans are the pale anemic bunch

No way Jose! Get yourself a bucket of cold water before you click into Vegan bodybuilders. Olympic champion Carl Lewis, gorgeous Alicia Silverstone and hot Joaquin Phoenix are amongst famous vegan hotties. You may find the list of vegan celebs at www.goveg.com.

2. If you want to know what�s in fashion, don�t bother asking a vegan

The best fashion accessory for Vegans is the one matching their beliefs. The mainstream has now caught on that "Green is the new Black" and compassion in fashion is in vogue. Stella McCartney is one among many designers who refuses to use fur or leather in any of her pret-a-porter collections.

3. Vegans are Fruit loops

There may be a few fruit loops amongst them but there are a few rather brilliant minds too. Mr Janez Drnovsek, president of Slovenia, is vegan, and just to name few revered veggie brains - Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, Albert Einstein and Leonardo Da Vinci. Maybe tofu is the next brain food �

4. Vegans live on rabbit food

Vegans love their rabbit food but they also love to tantilise their taste buds with scrumptious cuisines from around the world. Does the sound of Brazil Nut Choc Temptation sound too good to be vegan? Go to www.veginity.com for this recipe and more. For delectable ice cream, try B'Nice Rice Cream.

5. Vegan = Stylish footwear = Oxymoron �.. not any more!

Happy Vegan feet can now step out in style with stores like Bourgeois Boheme, www.bboheme.com. Footwear and accessories for both men and women are ethically sourced from around the world. Look out for the new collection under their own label coming out in the vegan month of November.

6. Vegans love animals more than people

The furry, scaly and warty ones are their passion but high on their priorities too is the welfare of their fellow 2-legged Homo sapiens variety too. Wherever possible, vegans look out for fair trade produce; see The Fair Trade Foundation for further information.

7. Vegans will not rest until they convert the entire world into Vegans

They would love everyone to be vegan of course but they do understand that this is the real world. Another way around is to set up a little country of vegans! One group hopes to purchase an island to establish their very own vegan island community.

8. Vegans are all crazy animal rights activists

There are many passive ways to be the voice for animals and to have fun at the same time. One such "cheeky" way is getting for them to get their gear off and run nude along the streets of Pamplona. Intrigued? Go to PETA's (People for the Ethical treatment of Animals) www.runningofthenudes.com for more details.

9. Vegans are tree huggers

Indeed they are and they love hugging lots of other things too! Actually, veganism and environmentalism go hand in hand. Did you know that farmed animals, cow�s flatulence for one, produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world�s entire transport system (13.5%)? Go to the Vegan Society for further interesting facts.

10. Vegans have a chip on their shoulders

"Let�s say you were stranded on a deserted island and your only food source was a turtle, would you eat it..?"

Vegans are bombarded with such absurd scenarios everyday; it�s not surprising that they may snap back! If you really want to know what vegetarian ethics is about go to Vegetarians International Voice for Animals website.

So there you go, that's what all vegans think and what all vegans are like and that's A FACT!

(Also, just for the record, as it has been proved above that all vegans are high achieving and intelligent and attractive, don't even think about coming back at me with "Hitler was a vegetarian", no he wasn't)

Mulled wine! And BEER!

This one's mostly for Dean, I know he likes to hear about how hard we're working at work. We're having another one of our fun days tomorrow, one last barbecue to celebrate a big deal working out, and everyone working hard to make it happen. Also, you would have to say that it's pretty much the end of the summer now. It's dark outside now but I'm sure it was quite a nice day, but hey just the fact that it's DARK at this time tells you that not even global warming can stop us slipping into winter. We were already told that there would be mulled wine tomorrow at the barbie, and an excess of puddings, but even better I just saw someone wheeling a barrel of beer through the office. Happy halloween everyone.

This one's not so much for Dean, it is an annoying programming thing that I've just sort of worked out. Been having an issue today where a really simple javascript thing was failing, on Safari only. I just wanted to trigger an onclick event on a link, make as if someone had clicked a link if something happened. I'm using jQuery so I ought to be able to do just

$(this).click()

and that works fine, but not in Safari (the shit Mac browser that people use by default at work)... This is how I'm getting around it, but I shouldn't have to do this, should I?

if ( $.browser.safari ) { eval( $( this ).attr( 'onclick' )) } else { $( this ).click() }

We have Tribes

See our Tribes here and search this site there have been lots of other posts from people unrelated to me but called Tribe (just click on the name Tribe or Tribe family or Tribe tree or Tribe Surrey to search).

Good luck!

RE: Fullsome weekender

Just a thought, so bare with me on this one.

Reading your most recent post, I got to thinking about comments. Now someone may have already done this, but I got to thinking about the process of having to go to a comments page to make a tiny comment. Then I thought about how people comment on picture sites such as Flickr - where they highlight an area and put words to the picture.

So the concept of inline comments started to form. What if I just wanted to comment on a small part of your post, such as the Irish people singing? I could just highlight your text, right click, select "Comment" and type in a small comment. Then you could have a transparent box over that text that shows the comment as a tooltip when the user puts the mouse over it.

Now you're much better than I would be at bashing together some cheeky JavaScript, so I'll leave that to you. It was just a thought....

Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

See this ebay auction, loads of really good scans of Harry Clarke illustrations there, worth checking out out just for those, even if you don't bid... In fact, please don't bid, because I might.

There is a much later reprint available, that's too high a starting price though I think.

The sister-in-law's waters have just broken

This is a medical term that is related in some way to having a baby apparently. This means we're likely to have a new niece this afternoon, we'll call in to see her on our way to Canterbury for lunch tomorrow, I think she's in Ashford. This new niece is on Clare's side, but also today, it's my nephew Jack's birthday, happy birthday mate.

Speaking of place name links like Canterbury, Folkestone, Ashford, etc, I just added a tonne more pubs and things for London and for Fareham, and for Portsmouth. If you've been to any of those places and fancy clicking on the stars to rate them, please feel free, help me build the site up a bit...

Today we're having a Life On Mars / 1970s themed day at work, fancy dress and stuff, and there's a '70s quiz where I could win a telly. Here are the questions:

1: What were Starsky and Hutch's First Names?
2: What issue forced President Nixon to resign?
3: Which video/arcade game became a hit in 1973?
4: Actor Roy Scheider appeared in the 1975 blockbuster "Jaws". What hit 1970's cop film did he also star in with Gene Hackman?
5: Which of the following characters was NOT in the Village People? Construction Worker; Biker/Leatherman; Policeman; Fireman
6: Eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were murdered by terrorists in which city?
7: Which colour does NOT appear on a standard Rubik's Cube? Orange; White; Purple; Green
8: What was the top selling single in Britain in 1975?
9: Which year did Margaret Thatcher become Prime Minister?
10: Name 2 IHG hotels at Heathrow which can take Park & Fly and Legoland bookings.
11: Name 3 hotels who are featured in the Show & Stay programme who are attending today.
12: When was the break-up of The Beatles officially announced? (Date & Year)
13: Who won the English Cup League at Wembley in 1973?
14: Which actor played Dr Who in the late 1970's?
15: What year did Disney World open in Buena Park, Florida?
16: What is the car registration of the car featured in Life On Mars
17: Which significant celebrity died on August 16th 1977?
18: What year was the first supercomputer produced and by whom?
19: Name 2 airport hotels (APART from Heathrow) attending today.
20: Name any other IHG hotel in London featured in the Holiday Extras programme. (Be as accurate as possible!)
21: Brian Blessed appeared as Frank Kemble in the first ever episode of which 1970's TV cop show?
22: What were the initials of the crime fighting organisation The Professionals were members of and what do they stand for?
23: What is always appearing on Sam Tyler's TV screen in the BBC's Life on Mars?
24: What is DCI Gene Hunt looking forward to for dinner when he first meets Sam Tyler in Life on Mars?
25: What year did the final episode of Dixon of Dock green air?

I need 100% to go into the draw apparently, and I've just spotted those questions from the quiz sponsor, IHG, and I need to get my answers in right now, not sure I will bother with this then...

UPDATE: Baby Poppy Mahon has been born already, and should be home tomorrow, so we're off to see them all then. Also, I did not win anything in the quiz, not even joint third place half bottle of wine. Being able to answer the sponsored questions was quite important in the end.

RE: You can click on the subject / title to edit it

I've re-savd my log-in details in Opera but I think it's saved the subject again. Oh, and it's gone and saved the CAPTCHA code as well this time. Damn, I guess that means I'll just have to commit my password to memory.

RE: You can click on the subject / title to edit it

No, when I saved my login info in Opera it saved the subject field, too. I'm going to try saving it again and hopefully it'll leave that field alone this time.

You can click on the subject / title to edit it

ooh, errors galore in internet explorer here! I'm rubbish at internets.

I found the sidebar stuff quite tricky actually

I can't remember how I did it right now, I can only suggest looking in the source, it's all integral.

I'll try and update my source code with some comments when I get time... Or, having looked at it again, completely rewrite it, it's rubbish... This looks like the bit you wan though:

var marker = new GMarker( new GLatLng( lat, lon ));
GEvent.addListener( marker, "click", function() {
marker.openInfoWindowTabsHtml( tabs );
} );
marker.lat = lat;
marker.lon = lon;
marker.guid = guid;
var li = document.createElement("li");
li.name = li.id = guid;
var a = document.createElement("a");
a.innerHTML = content;
addEvent( a, "click", function() {
d( "Got a click on link " + guid );
marker.openInfoWindowTabsHtml( tabs );
} );
li.appendChild(a);
myGmap.panel.appendChild(li);
// d( li.innerHTML );

when i click on it

it opens in a new window though... go here, it's cool...

wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicely

Everything was good until I upgraded to the newer "Feisty Fawn" version of ubuntu, now we're back to the drawing board. I have no wifi and sometimes I have no keyboard or mouse either. If any of the following instructions (which I'm copying and pasting here for convenience) mean anything to you then you have my sympathy:

lsusb | grep NetGear

The output will show one of two devices: 0846:4240 is the v2. If you're using v1, you can follow the same steps, but the driver you install will be different.

STEP: Blacklist the existing drivers:
Code:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Copy and paste the following to the bottom of the file. Save it. Close it.
Code:

#wg111v2 conflicting drivers
blacklist islsm_pci
blacklist islsm
blacklist islsm_usb
blacklist prism2_usb
blacklist rtl8187
blacklist r8187b
blacklist r8187

STEP: Download the driver from Netgear
Select version 1.3 (if you're using v2). Download wg111v2_1_3_0.zip to your desktop. Right-click on the file and extract it to your desktop. For ease of use, rename the extracted folder to: "NetgearV2".

STEP: Configure NDISWRAPPER. Edit path as necessary. One command at a time.

sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/NetgearV2/Driver/WIN98/net111v2.inf
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo ndiswrapper -m

STEP: Add the module to /etc/modules

sudo gedit /etc/modules

Copy and paste the following to the bottom of the file. Save it. Close it.

ndiswrapper

STEP: Reboot your machine. Insert your wg111v2. Confirm proper installation:

ndiswrapper -l

Now I'm on the new version I'm getting the same old "Error inserting ndiswrapper... Invalid argument" when I try to modprobe my ndiswrapper (mrs)... how on earth is a user who's less technical than me (and there must be some out there) meant to cope with this?

There is a hack out there that I used on an earlier version of the operating system, where there was an error with the version of ndiswrapper that was installed by default (1.1), and by deleting that and replacing it with ndiswrapper-1.8 everything was OK. The only searches I can find for my current problem lead me back to this same hack, BUT the newer distribution already comes with ndiswrapper-1.9, so this is no help at all.

UPDATE: even worse, now I am fast becoming the top result when searching for this error, and I have no solution still! There are still no up to date solutions on ubuntuforums.org as far as I can see, my specific error message regarding Error inserting ndiswrapper... Invalid argument still brings me back to a solution involving updating to a version of ndiswrapper that's older than the one I have.

Despite itchypaws' best efforts, this is giving me a headache.

Boom shake the room!

Well I suspect you've all been frantically refreshing wondering when I'd report from this morning's earthquake! Amazingly it was three and a half hours ago now, the power was off until just recently so there wasn't a lot I could do, no internets, and no mobile phone network. The landline was working but that was it. Nothing I could do... except, record a video message on the camera for later. Be good to document this, just in case it's the end of the world. Hi, I'm Kent Brockman:

That was after pulling some clothes on and before racing out of the house. The building was shaking, at about 8.15, and that's what woke us up. Very hard to believe that we didn't dream it at first, things like this just don't happen here. It only lasted about ten seconds, but it wsa still quite an experience. Next impression was that maybe a chimney had toppled, or maybe someone's boiler had blown up. I grabbed some rubbish valuables that I had to hand in my bag (IPOD, little computer, work laptop, what was I thinking?) and went outside where the neighbours were congregating. Nice to see and speak to so many of them, this never happens unless something's up.

General consensus was it was an earthquake, I have to say no-one here really thought it was a proper nucular bomb type explosion or terror attack. We have some cracks in the wall, mirror and pictures shaken free, and cupboard doors popped open and a neighbour had similar. We went back in the house, got more properly dressed, made a couple of phone calls. Still nothing on the national news at this point, though a few minutes later my sister called to say it was breaking news on Sky, and I should phone in. Instead, we headed downtown, expection scenes of devastation.

Town was quite busy, mostly with people who should have been in the shops and banks and things all evacuated onto the high street. Most places were closed, but a few market stalls were doing a roaring trade in tea and bacon sandwiches and the like. Django's cafe was open, though only doing cold drinks I think. A fair proportion of it's customers were drinking beer, at about a quarter to ten. Probably medicinal. This burger van had a queue right up the street:

OK, it's not just the East side of Folkestone that can look a bit rough in a certain light, the town centre is nothing to write home about either. Apart from that though, it's lovely.

TV and radio reports say it was a gas mark 4.7 on the richter scale, which might seem a bit feeble to any international viewers, but it's quite something for here. There's naturally been some overexcitement among those who've phoned the local radio station, one woman said she lives near the channel tunnel and she DEFINITELY heard a big explosion, hmm. TV news reports are a bit annoying really. Luckily only one person's been injured in all of this, but all of the damage seems to be over the east side of town. I'm not saying this is the worst part of town or anything like that, but all the teenagers with prams and baseball caps that you see gurning in the background of the news reports are not representative of the town as a whole, honest. Here's a nice house across the street that seems to have taken a bad hit. Click on the photo to zoom in to the cracks:

Luckily the power is back on, so just popped back in to post this, and then we're heading out of town to somewhere the businesses are not disrupted, so we can get some lunch and that.

Bit of excitement eh? This distracted me from my cold that's been building up all week, but now I'm relaxed again it's creeping back, bah.

RE: Cheers, I fixed it now I think

Oh yeah, a load of new stuff just appeared. I guess I was wrong.

I posted a blank reply earlier by mistake when I click the button to auto-complete all my details. As well as my username and password, Opera must have saved that subject heading as well!