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Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmail

Dug out my wireless camera, to see if it could be used as a web cam - it's good quality, with sound, but more for security monitoring than sitting in front of the screen and talking. Don't think it can, but it's good to have it up and running again a...

Splendid weekend of comedy, food, double dinners, and everything

Great weekend. As an intro though, specifically for the people from work who mentioned they had found this page recently - at no point did I drink too much and become annoying, I am a fine upstanding member of staff. Probably you can go back to work ...

Rocket man lands in Dover today

Swiss jet pack flyer Yves Rossy had to postpone yesterday's attempted personal jet crossing of the channel, but with any luck he'll be landing in Dover today, so look out for him, keep your heads down! The Guardian has more, or (sorry I'm in a hurry)...

Massive hen party descending on this week's Lone Star Comedy

Big hen party booked in for Lone Star Comedy this Friday, a few tickets remaining though! Single tickets available online at Online via www.lonestarcomedy.co.uk but for two or more best call Richard on 07810 864228 or email lonestarcomedy@hotmail.com...
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Eggheads?

What's happened to Eggheads on BBC IPlayer? It's VANISHED! I've got used to watching it every day when we get in from work...Also my torrent speed seems a bit slow, not that I am trying to download the new episode of House or anything. New series of ...

Nice weekend

Had a good weekend, reasonably uneventful but just NICE! Intended to start off with a quiz at The Grand, but they called Clare on the day to say it was cancelled, for a private function. Good job she had called to reserve a table and left her number,...

Series five of House (House MD)

Only in the USA but I'm sure there must be a way...

Origami luggage labels

How has no-one already made such a thing? Looking for an origami pattern for a baggage label and I can find no such thing, can you help?

Google Chrome Easter egg

Sort of (you need to be running Google Chrome). Not sure that works even if you are using 'Chrome. Go to your location bar SUPER OMNI BAR and type in "about:internets".Wasn't really worth the wait, was it. Sorry....

David Devant top ten

Just browsing last.fm to see if anyone's mentioned the David Devant gig at the 100 Club (and they haven't), but I see this top ten of their tracks most listened, by users of last.fm. Who have installed the software, that monitors what you're listenin...
Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Hectic day at work today

I 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...

Lone Star Comedy returns on Saturday September 27th

The Lone Star Comedy Club returns to the Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe Garrsion in Cheriton � on Saturday September 27th.The line up consists of THE AMAZING MR SMITH, SHELAGH MARTIN, compere TIERNAN DOUIEB, plus a newcomer�s act. THE AMA...
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Google'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......

My computer is dead!

Bah, turned it on today and I'm getting the blue screen of death with a unmountable_boot_volume error. Thought at first it was the backup drive or an IPOD plugged in, but no, it's the one and only hard drive that is knackered. Apparently I might be a...

Yes, very simple stuff

I use it on my own admin pages here, but I've done some new things with the dates that I really like. Using jquery ui datepicker just makes things great, haven't transferred that here yet though....

This weekend's Folkestone Fringe events

friday 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...

Hot Leg Review - first Hot Leg Review EVER?

Was as we expected, maybe hotter, certainly smellier than I would have liked. We spent the evening secretly wishing they would play some songs that we knew - not necessarily Darkness songs, but maybe some cheeky covers, tipping their hat to their ref...

Ricky Gervais in Folkestone

I think this is at the Battle of Britain memorial in Capel. One of the sketches for The 11 O'Clock Show that he regrets not doing under a character name like Billy Bigot I assume.In Politics, Gervais's teenage enthusiasm for activism kicks off a seri...

Got an email about the School of Art

From Eamon Everall no less:Hi, you ask for info on Folkestone School of Art , I went there from 1966 to 1967. When i went it was where the multi story car park opposite the junction of Alexandra Gardens & Middleburg Square, now is. More or less oppo...

PHREADZ podcast

Well sort of. Some of the content from Kosso's phreadz.com is also available in MP4 format, which is kind of handy for ipod video. So I'm hoping this feed will populate my ipod with the fascinating conversations these guys are having. Only some of th...

Google street view is OK'd for the UK

Here on the BBC, there were fears about it being an invasion of privacy, which would have been a shame if it goes ahead. It's funny how sometimes we're keen to give data away on social network websites and excited about every inch of the UK being pho...

Someone wants to pay for links from my website

PR Precision are looking for sites that would be interested in publishing content on behalf of a number of our clients which include some of the UK's biggest brands. For a site such as www.clarkeology.com we'd be prepared to pay up to �100 per month,...

MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock is off to Edinburgh NOW!

The Last Working Day Of The Month, Issue 42-------------------------------------------(MJ Hibbett & The Validators FACT, July 31st 2008)Hello all, and welcome to this FESTIVAL FUNTIME edition of the newsletter. Let's GO!GIGS TO COMEThis month I shall...

New google walking directions (needs some work)

120 miles on foot or two miles by road, hmm. I think they put these deliberate mistakes in there just to get people talking.Talking of google, www.cuil.com is launched, they've been spidering this site for a while, it's a new search site started by s...

Ads on my google map

Check it out, there really are local businesses advertising on google maps now.

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...

MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock press launch and things

Hello - this is a special mid-month version of the newsletter just to let you know about some RATHER Exciting New Things, these being our new single, the video to go with it, and the press launch for the Edinburgh Show. Let's GO!THE NEW SINGLEOur bra...