2008-10-15UTC01:03:17Great weekend (belated weeekend-o-blog)Great as in really good and great as in just enormous, fitted quite a lot in. Clare was out in London Friday night, and had got a hotel so I was planning to meet her later and we'd stay over so as to have a nice Saturday there too. Work is busy as ev... 2008-09-15UTC07:07:11AF&RM CAMRA says Gate 28 is reopening as a pizza restaurantNot sure if that info is more up to date than what I read on Facebook. This is from the September issue of Marsh Mash, the newsletter of Ashford, Folkestone and Romney Marsh branch of CAMRA: The bad news, The Fox Willesborough was firmly closed when ... <br /><a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/11574/AF%26RM+CAMRA+says+Gate+28+is+reopening+as+a+pizza+restaurant"><img alt="AF&amp;RM CAMRA says Gate 28 is reopening as a pizza restaurant" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2725960260_6eba34a516_m.jpg" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/11574/AF%26RM+CAMRA+says+Gate+28+is+reopening+as+a+pizza+restaurant">Rated 5.03/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-09-04UTC06:01:55Hectic day at work todayI think it's all going well though. Still playing with Google Chrome, not sure I will choose it over Firefox though, where is the "home" button? Also I like all the plugins in Firefox, how long before Google Chrome introduces something like that? The... 2008-09-02UTC11:39:48Google's browser is released TONIGHT!They've made a new browser called Google Chrome, a rival to Firefox! To explain what they've done and why they've done it, they've made a google chrome comic...... 2008-07-13UTC10:59:19Gone ApeWent to Go Ape at Leeds Castle on Friday, bit of a work jolly. None of the pictures or video really came out that well, but here is me on a zip line / death slide / flying fox.It was great! Some pictures to come too.As a reward for watching my video... 2008-06-18UTC02:58:31Upgrade to Firefox 3Everything should be quicker, even this old crate of a site, <a title="Firefox 3" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/">get it here</a>... Say goodbye to some of your old extensions before you do though.2008-03-05UTC09:41:03RE: Ever feel lacking in skills?That's crazy talk, and quite an arrogant viewpoint for Wired - screw building a clock out of voltmeters. I've got a degree in electronics but there is no way I'd open up your iPaq to see why it wasn't working. Gadgets are sold as black boxes, and are... 2007-12-28UTC10:48:23A festive update from HibbettHmm, this newsletter is called "The Last Working Day Of The Month" (from one of his songs), but he's practically a civil servant and finished work for the year a week ago at least, I'm still working...welcome to this SUPER CHRISTMASSY edition of our ... 2007-11-18UTC06:21:59Particularly fulsome weekend, with curries.Splendid weekend, a bit different this time, starting off with a half day on Friday. I headed to Winchester to meet up with some friends, and really needed the extra time to make the most of the night. Clare stayed home watching Children in Need afte... 2007-10-18UTC12:46:31HmmmWell, maybe my internets are wonky ! I always seem to have some problem or other.. Firefox sez<br /><br />Server not found<br />Firefox can't find the server at www.show-and-stay.co.uk.<br /><br />What's the IP ? 2007-08-28UTC06:11:16Buffy, BACK!ROCK \m/ OK not actually Buffy, but the long rumoured Ripper spinoff, hope this will be good... This on popbitch forum today:Antony Stewart Head stars as Rupert Giles in "Ripper", by Joss Whedon, filming next summer for the BBC.www.popbitch.com/image... 2007-04-26UTC05:20:41Freakish IE7Internet Explorer 7 is blocking all access to the homepage of this site, even though it validates and everything. Bah. Everyone, please, use Firefox instead.... 2007-02-03UTC07:17:27SpilledDamn, more evidence for the gradual Americanisation (is that a word?) of the English language... I try hard not to slip into American English as I like the quirkiness and irregularity of UK English e.g. spilt instead of spilled, learnt vs. learned, s... 2007-01-17UTC01:19:29There is another UK Skink doing the roundsThis from a press release from January last year:LONDON: It needs a brave soul and a strong stomach to have dinner with Arthur Boyt.For he is a connoisseur of roadkill flesh, and among the dishes served in his kitchen are casseroles made from squashe... 2006-11-01UTC04:58:12Return of the IPAQSince bringing my IPAQ back to life, I've been trying to load it up with content, looking for podcast type software to populate it with free contentdel.icio.us avi feed, I wonder has someone already hacked together a youtube feed with attachments? Lo... 2006-10-17UTC07:43:31Yesterday's newsBAH, wrote a huge posting, to compensate for several days of blog neglect, and Firefox only done went and crashed on me didn't it... that's literally several paragraphs of finely thought out prose that are now lost forever. I need to write an "autosa... 2006-10-01UTC08:25:50Another Harry Clarke auctionHans Anderson's Fairy Tales, with colour plates intact. Low price, but high postage. Still getting plenty of bids though, will we ever get lucky with a copy of this?Published by G. Harrap & Company Ltd, Portsmouth, 1931 HB Cloth. Harry Clarke (illust... 2006-07-13UTC10:46:55You know I said there was no-where to log-in?This is what I get using different browsers when attempting to post comments. Happens at home & at work.FirefoxIEAnyone else missing the username/pw boxes in firefox?... 2006-06-14UTC01:31:44Done my Javascript referer thingSee my landing page thing in action like so:Google for Paul Clarke CVClick on the Paul Clarke CV link in the google resultsWait for the very exciting floating window to appear on the results saying "I see you came here from a search result (for Paul ... 2006-06-08UTC12:01:24Woo, new computer is on the wayI was all set to post some abuse about the unhelpfulness of the couriers used by Dell, I got the usual spiel on the phone about how they can't give me a smaller time frame than 8am to 6pm for delivery, they can't give the actual courier on the ground... 2006-05-09UTC11:20:55Day 4, IPOD battery still behavingSo, my IPOD opening skills are up to scratch, my web development skills are lacking today. I'm using a new firefox extension that alerts you to memory leak errors in javascript... I have tonnes! I'm going to have to disable it again, as there's no wa... 2006-04-27UTC10:50:35No pea soup for breakfast todayWe've had crazy fog each day this week in Folkestone, but not today, it was lovely back and home and also nice here in London.Didn't sleep on the train in today, I suspect it's because the wife wasn't there beside me, she's taken the luxury of a day ... 2006-04-25UTC06:37:41RE: Firefox extension of the dayGood stuff, now I can give you grief when your pages have poirly formed markup!<br /><br />Live by the sword, die by the sword.2006-04-25UTC01:03:26Firefox extension of the dayLoving this, instant html validation in firefox, an extension that lets you know if the page you're on has errors / warnings, see:What the extension should look like in situ...This page has none! That's how it should be and that's what that little W3... 2006-03-21UTC09:48:02Cheers I will look into thatI have a load of scripting on the page doing all sorts of experimental stuff, I've only tested it on the Firefox web browser at the moment, I expect it's lots slower in internet explorer... I'll clear it off here and put it on a test page...2006-03-20UTC10:37:16Weekend of sportsThe Rugby was great, made for quite a long and tiring day, but a fabulous experience being there for an international. The Wales v France game put paid to either England or Ireland winning the 6 Nations so it wasn't quite such an important game. I'd ... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/6539/Weekend+of+sports"><img alt="Weekend of sports" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/30/38190906_3f7d8c2f90.jpg" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/6539/Weekend+of+sports">Rated 3.07/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2006-03-03UTC10:33:08A bit of style mixage todayTrying out adding in some what was I blogging about this day last year links that I hope you can see below (though they're not looking right), and putting the graphical quotes around things I put in quotes too. As usual Firefox is doing just what I'd... 2006-02-17UTC11:18:29Google rubbishLots of short sharp posts today, freshen up the page... video.google.com has given me some grief over the past few weeks, wasn't sure if they were just taking their time approving am music video I uploaded for work or what. Turns out that it just fel... 2006-02-07UTC10:08:18Lots of new things!Starting with a https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Entertainment&id=1327 grocery list manager for Firefox... it's a weird one, but it might just work, all week I'm in front of the computer thinking about f... 2006-01-23UTC11:01:44RE: Oh, and the snookerok quick question - please recommend a RSS app. cant use firefox as at work.