2009-01-05UTC07:08:24Speaking of things gigographicI kind of was earlier, mentioned my gigography, was I really never at a gig at this week in history? Doesn't sound very likely, I think something's gone wrong. The dinner is on, I have a good twenty minutes to investigate before Clare gets in from wo... 2008-12-20UTC10:12:13RAINEYRe: RAINEYhi - I'm Des Rainey, Auckland, NZ - I relate back in time to the Samuel Boyd Clarke who left Kilrea and went to Canada. I have a sister Eileen but don't know if this is the same Eileen already in the Clarke family tree ore a new one!!!! An... 2008-12-09UTC07:19:59Remember: Eurotunnel is not as good as you think it is going to beHad a nice weekend in Lille, marred on the way home by a Eurotunnel delay. We were meant to be on the 10pm train home last night, and there was a twohour delay for some reason. No explanation, just an automated message when you are queued up in your ... 2008-12-03UTC02:01:28Bumping into friends in LondonKERRAZY, went to London last weekend and it was smashing, and we bumped into good chums Ralph and Linda and baby Astrid in GAP, what are the chances of that? OK, we had already arranged to meet up with them earlier that day at Pain Quotidien, which w... 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... 2008-08-15UTC06:31:52This weekend's Folkestone Fringe eventsfriday night at the folkestone fringe, invites you to two previews:at the cube gallery, tontine street:new work by andy tuohypreview starts at 6 - 8.30 pmall welcome to see a continuation of some of the poster modern work seen earlier in the yearat g... 2008-08-11UTC06:30:09Nice weekend, quiet weekendNice weekend. Changed our Friday night outgoing plans and had a quiet one in. Saturday went to a 92nd birthday tea for Clare's gran over in Tenterden, home for a brief siesta, and then out to The Guildhall with visiting family and friends. Took a bri... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11501/Nice+weekend%2C+quiet+weekend">Rated 3.57/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-05-15UTC09:15:55Lone Star Comedy moves to the Tower TheatreThe Lone Star Comedy Club returns at a new venue – The Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe in Cheriton, near Folkestone – on Saturday May 31st with MITCH BENN, MICHAEL FABBRI, compere MAFF BROWN and a newcomer’s act.Now the home of FHODS, the ... <br /><a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/11264/Lone+Star+Comedy+moves+to+the+Tower+Theatre">Rated 5.07/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-05-07UTC06:30:35Folkestone suicide tragedyAn apparent eye witness has come forward to the tragic death on Friday, claiming that NO, there was not a crowd to witness the event and NO, no-one was holding up a mobile phone filming:Asd for what you've been told about people there taking pictures... 2008-03-16UTC08:04:17Remembering XFMWas surprised earlier to realise that the original XFM only lasted for about a year, before being shut down and messed up by Capital. Yes we've been listening to more Ricky Gervais, still haven't found any really early shows. I'll post up a list of w... 2008-03-14UTC07:19:58Ricky Gervais XFM radio show MP3sDo you have any? Been listening to lots of Ricky Gervais recently, old radio shows from XFM, and they're great (if repetitive). Now we want more, and we want earlier. The oldest show we have is from November 10th 2001, which I think was an officially... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11065/Ricky+Gervais+XFM+radio+show+MP3s">Rated 3.57/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-02-25UTC02:21:01Quiet few daysHad a lovely weekend, disastrous in terms of house hunting, but great in every other ways. We didn't get to see any houses this weekend, there don't seem to be any on the market really that fit our requirements. We saw a couple of new houses online t... 2008-02-15UTC09:23:38Cheaper DRM free downloads from play.comAnnounced earlier this week, www.play.com have only got EMI on board so far, but that's a big chunk of the record industry. The tracks will be free of DRM so you'll be free to play them on any player and copy from computer to computer I think, also t... 2007-12-19UTC07:36:50If a picture paints a thousand words...Does this video clip of us in Belgium this weekend make anything I have to say on the subject completely redundant?See, Mum, Dad, Clare and me on a humungous big wheel, part of the Plaisers d'Hiver festival type affair that was going in Brussels this... 2007-12-14UTC03:48:25Hell yeah, encouragement, that's what I need!Well it was a lunch more than an actual party, and there's really not a huge amount to report, and you're not interested anyway, but HELLO TO ME IN THE FUTURE, how's it going five years from now? Do you remember that day, about five years ago, when y... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10768/Hell+yeah%2C+encouragement%2C+that%27s+what+I+need%21">Rated 4.07/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-11-26UTC07:04:43Why park sensibly...A note left on the siter in law's car when it was parked outside our house earlier...WHY PARK SENSIBLY WHEN YOU CAN PARK LIKE AN IGNORANT AND BLOCK A EMERGENCY ENTRANCE. POLICE NOTIFIED HOPEFULLY OBSTRUCTION TICKET (BEFORE) YOUR (something) RETURN.We... 2007-11-15UTC08:22:53Weekend train funPlanning a little trip to Winchester tomorrow evening, to catch up with old friends and have a curry and a few drinks. Staying over, so no worries about trying to get back here, and then meeting Clare in London the next morning for shopping and thing... 2007-11-12UTC02:27:28Fullsome weekenderWell I say full, full of pubs really. Friday night we stayed in, so as to have more energy for going out on Saturday. We had a trip to Canterbury in the day (and you'll never guess where we had lunch), no actual christmas shopping, but we went in a c... 2007-09-18UTC10:04:02Leaving finger prints behind at a burglary - BADLeaving a finger behind - VERY BAD A burglar has left behind a severed finger when he broke into a builder's yard, police said.The would-be thief is believed to have sliced off the digit on razor wire as he climbed into the Elliotts Builders Merchant... 2007-09-17UTC05:35:01Weekend goodThe rugby was obviously attrocious, what a poor start to the weekend, but hey at least it was the weekend from that point onwards. As usual we headed to Canterbury, Clare on a slightly earlier bus than me so she could do some shopping, then Wagamamas... 2007-09-02UTC05:31:31jquery is greatI use it for everything, it's well recommended. I'm sure prototype is good now too, but jquery is tiny, and does everything you need, and the code you write with it is tiny too. I have got really into the way you select things to do things to too. As... 2007-07-27UTC10:45:40MarvellousI hope it's a top one. Sultans of Ping eh? Not heard of them in a while, I am jealous! Saw The Fall at Ashton Court festival a couple of weeks ago.. they were nothing much to write home about though. Much shambling about stage, random turning up of g... 2007-06-25UTC05:21:02Windebanks of wield.in a recent article in HGS magazine someone tracing north hants windebanks mentionned the wield lot, and stated that they were supposed to be a colateral branch of the windebanks descended from Sir thomas Windebank of Haines Hillhurst, Berks 1538 - 1... 2007-06-09UTC10:56:12Quite InterestingWent back to QI, and it was ace, glad we made the effort. I had the afternoon off, and got away on time, so I had hours to kill before the show. I went to the National Gallery, and saw some paintings, it was nice. Then I wondered around Soho grazing ... 2007-05-31UTC09:59:29wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicelyEverything 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 pasti... 2007-05-29UTC11:41:32Long weekendBeen away a long time (apart from my little post this morning about wireless things) and we fitted quite a lot in really, felt like a proper holiday since my complaints about QI.Our afternoon out in Canterbury was good, though not absolutely everythi... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10268/Long+weekend">Rated 4.07/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-04-28UTC11:21:25RE: Boom shake the room!Heard about this earlier but heard it was the Medway Towns - shame it wasn't.... glad to hear you're safe and well, though!2007-04-18UTC08:33:51Boohoo, I preferred their earlier stuff This is rubbish:Oh, boohoo, i preferred the earlier stuff, now everyone's got an IPOD, it's not fair! What sort of massive 'lord is he anyway if he has to keep taking his computer into the "genius" bar to get it fixed? Just bang it on the desk until... 2007-04-02UTC03:01:43RE: Cheers, I fixed it now I thinkOh 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... 2007-01-05UTC03:46:51GOOD interviewSpent a few hours with a really cool company earlier, hope they are thinking the same kind of salary I'm thinking. There was a range advertised with the job, I hope they agree with me that I'm at the top of that range. Oh, and that they are intereste... 2008-06-10UTC12:38:46The GarageDon't recall if they did their "Hamster Dance" single, I do remember an ace cover of "Self Esteem", though I could possiblybe mixing it up with an earlier Helen Love gig... Plus The Fighting Cocks....