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And the camera's working at last

Outgoing mail server is mail.btinternet.com, and username is just the username, not the email address. I authorised another email address on my own clarkeology.com domain to send from my btbroadband in the end, but don't think I really needed to do t...

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 ...

RE: Don't ye be forgettin' dawgs

ee by gum, run up the gibbet ya scurvy mutts, or walk up it if your too old. Well,I tried...

Arr!

Don't be forgettin' to Talk Like A Pirate today!...

Don't ye be forgettin' dawgs

Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day!Every year I think I'm going to make more of a deal of this at work, have written some especially piratey code to roll out, and every year I forgets, arrr......

Another odd looking Bergerac Oak table

Here's another Bergerac Oak dining table with the same odd colouring as the other pieces I've seen on ebay recently... is this maybe an older colour that John Lewis used to do? Our bookcases are the mid coloured "Alsace" range, it's not that, but we ...

The only pub around with an indoor smoking area?

Went to the Skuba Bar last night and sat in their new conservatory for the first time. We had two smokers with us who were very pleased to see they've found some kind of loophole against the smoking ban. The walls of the conservatory can be opened ri...
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Hmm, I might have that on vinyl too

I was obviously drunk when I wrote that. I don't have it in my itunes, so I probably don't have it on a CD, and just assumed that it was not a cd single...
Yes, come to the gig!

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

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

A week of technological disasters

My week of technological disasters goes from bad to worse. Lost the camera (it still has not turned up yet), and as previously mentioned the only hard drive on our PC is corrupted. I got the Windows XP disks and tried recovering it, but no joy, so or...

Quiet here...

Computer still dead, so not updating much. Got the installation disks and tried to recover the boot record, but no joy. Recovery looked like it was working, so I don't know that the whole disk is dead, but I've bought a new hard drive anyway, will t...

Sandbanks Restaurant, The Pavilion, Wear Bay Road - Sat 23rd Aug

I haven't written one of these reviews for a while and, to be honest, I wondered whether I ever would again. There are only so many times you can be bothered to write something about crap food served by people who don't give a damn about good food o...
Rated 7.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...

channelwebscene

To receive your very own free copy of the action packed, fun filled bumper summer edition of channelwebscene just click on the link below. Enjoy yourself.http://www.channelwebscene.co.ukDon't forget to share us with your friends and please beware of ...

It's Fareham, it's a squirrel, it must be the Daily Mail

A squirrel carrying a coconut.UPDATE: The Sun has it too. I don't read either of these papers, but The Guardian news podcast seems to have missed it......

RE: We got Wii!

Cool, I got a Wii a few weeks ago and now I don't know how I survived without it. The little thing is grate for after-pub parties and social drinking. Not to mention thrashing out the day's accumulated frustration.

RE: How did we miss this anniversary?

Hi

I didn't the Independent covered it on the 14th. I did notice both our local papers managed to miss it. Still if it's not praising the Tory's it don't get in our locals.

Speaking of tipping, see what tipped over

This tree tipped up in the high winds I guess:That's the terrace / smoking area of The Bank Bar under that tree, don't suppose there was anyone sat out there with today's weather anyway. This looked fresh, it must have only just happened. Snapped tod...

Rated 8.09/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Tipping etiquette

Had the day off today a day working jolly hard at home, as our new fridge freezer was being delivered. I shouldn't joke about it, the working from home I mean, but it's a running routine between Clare and myself, she works at home once a week usually...

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...

Some old photos of Folkestone

I bought an album of photos not so long ago and these photos of Wear Bay Road and Folkestone were included in it. I thought you might like to see them and possibly pass on the the ones of Wear Bay Road to any residents of houses featured. I don't kno...
Rated 5.05/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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,...

RE: Yes you must

I don't avoid it as such, I'm just usually too busy and it's gone before I realise what's going on. I'll make an extra special effort this year.I've a few friends who currently rent out during the festival, or have in the past. They only get at most ...

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...

I was going to get a haircut, but...

Our freezer broke down today, all the haircut money I'd saved will have to go towards that.The inside back of the freezer has bulged out (not with frost, I don't know what with) and it's forced the drawers out so they pushed the door open and it thaw...

DESPERATE TO FIND FAMILY MEMBERS WITH SURNAME WEBBER

Please help !!!! I live in the states, but I amdesperately trying to locate Carole, Penny, or Jim Webber who used to reside on eastern road in Portsmouth. It's been a few years, and the phone numbers I have are no longer valid. It is rathr urgent t...

Who will buy my Stereophonics tickets

Slight repost from Folkestone Gerald and my blog / forum there:I can't decide whether or not to go to Stereophonics next Tuesday, we have messed up a bit in arranging a lie in the following morning so it's not really convenient now. Do you want my s...

Rated 4.43/10 on Folkestone Gerald

I bought a thing

This is what I bought at the boot fair yesterday, but was too traumatised to write about because of squished finger:It's a valet like this one, but a bit nicer I think. It looks older than it is and I've no idea what wood it's made out of, it's been ...

Royal Festival Hall

plus My Morning Jacket, but I don't think we saw them.
Rated 5.78/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Islington Academy

XFM Xmas party, watched support act The Darkness then went mad on free cocktails, don't remember the headliners.

Wembley Arena

Spandau Ballet, Belinda Carlisle, ABC, Howard, Toyah and China Crisis. Don't laugh!

The Garage

Don'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....

Astoria

NME Brats show, lovely write up: [quote]Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolle...
Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Reading Festival

Blur headlined, not a very strong lineup I don't think. I was working mostly, and managed to lose my first mobile phone that work lent me.

Brixton Academy

with support from Super Furry Animals and Stereophonics, who I don't remember at all...

The Wedgewood Rooms

I remember going clearly, but don't think this can have been the first of my trips to the Wedgewood Rooms, can it?
Rated 6.05/10 on Folkestone Gerald