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Does this look like a real skateboard to you?

Story in the Telegraph about a skateboarding owl. And it's in Folkestone this time, last week's story like this was from Fareham. There are owls in the town centre, and one of them might like a skateboard, but that looks too small to me. Or, that's a...

Anyone written a pbworks plugin?

Trying to write a pbworks plugin in javascript. Not really a plugin, but just including a small amount of js in the page as that's all I've figured out how to do so far. Here's my snippet: jQuery( function () { jQuery.getJSON( 'http://foo.com/jso...

More Tales From The Tap Room

Been looking for an original of More Tales From The Tap Room for ages, ie Tales From The Tap Room, but no joy. I have this book but would like a first edition. Get this one here and help Pilgrims Hospice, or you buy a new copy from Folkestone library...

Free book for the people of Folkestone

Clare got some more Candace Robb from the library this week and was persuaded to take an extra book, Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce. There is a plan to get everyone in the town reading the same book for some reason. It's about a run down village that...

Roast potato O'Clock

I've had roast potatoes with the last three meals (breakfast not included, don't be ridiculous), is that too much? Generally I'm a very healthy eater but I could happily have roast potatoes with every meal going forward, how quickly would it take me ...

Lunches for the week all made!

Weekend nearly over, but jobs are done, Harry's bathed and about to go to bed (Clare's doing the last top up feed), dinner is in and so are my lunches for the week of sausages or vegeburger, peas and potatoes*. So we're about ready to eat and relax f...

Another successful sleep through the night

Harry I mean, but also me! Well mostly, I woke up strangely early and woke Clare up too, being a bit confused about what time it was.Busy at work, successful launch of a new thing! But I can't really show it to you as it's a sort of extranet for trav...

Habitat Radius Tallboy

Collect from Eltham.My javascript on here is still broken then! No time to fix today :-(...

Woohoo eight hours sleep!

Last night, not me as it goes but Harry. I woke him up for the normal last feed of the night at 10.30, he guzzled greedily, went back to bed sucking his thumb and did not wake until just after 7am this morning. That's his first time of sleeping right...

Join my team!

Not my wording, this is from the HR deptWe are looking for a Web Developer for our ever-growing Airport Web Team.You must be an enthusiastic & communicative team member with a positive attitude, dedication and willingness to work hard often under tig...

Bah, I just wrote my first greasemonkey plugin

Just after everything goes a bit jetpack. Whoosh, me. Was planning on ditching greasemonkey and just making an addon instead, but do we got to develop everything twice now, or can I develop in Jetpack and have it make a standalone Firefox addon?...

Folkestone Library / Amazon plugin

See here, find out if a book is available in your local library each time you visit the page on Amazon - brilliant!It's a bit techie to use at the moment, you have to Use Firefox as your web browser, install Greasemonkey, install my script, then go t...

Kent libraries Amazon Firefox Greasemonkey mashup

I've made a firefox plugin, to look up if a book's available in the library when you're viewing its page on Amazon. Normally I'd be sending people TO Amazon rather than from Amazon, hoping to make a commission, but here's where I give something back....

A nice cup of TEA

Aha, tricked you, it's not "tea" at all, it's TEA from Hogsback brewery! The joke may be on me though, I poured it out a bit hastily and didn't heed the warning about not pouring the sediment into the glass. So it's a bit cloudy.Trying to write my fi...

Chrome Experiment

Some cool as hell javascript experiments here showing off the benefits of google chrome... Not sure it's enough to outweight the benefit of all the Firefox plugins though.ALSO, cool, and also Google, some friends Google street view van in Hythe....

twfeed.js - twitter feed javascript badge / widget you can use for free

Get it here, a simple js feed thing that I wrote for my blog and am spreading round a few other places. Look out non techie / web page owning readers, example code coming up, you might as well turn away now...I know there are billions of these out th...

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....

Too boring

Less posts about PHP, javascript and KML to come, as my friend - let's call him the cowardly civil servant to offer him some anonymity - found it boring. While he was reading at work. How do you find the time mate? I'll tell you what's boring, it's m...

Textarea line numbers (using javascript?)

Someone must have done this? I want to add line numbers to my input box, so as to make the inline editor I'm using at work a bit more like a real editor... any ideas?UPDATE: codepress looks quite good, doesn't work exactly with the jtageditor I'm alr...

everything is json these days

I can remember the day I first heard of it and didn't see the benefit of it at all but now I use it for everything (like the folkestone map), I have a feed of absolutely everything on the site as json... Think I might need to change my neat urls to a...

Ever feel lacking in skills?

I do, all my skills are in software, if the power went off tomorrow I'd be SUNK! I wish I had more hardware skills, not just computer hardware, but general mechanics and making and fixing things. Here's an interesting article along those lines from w...

Is my reply button broken?

It's hard to tell, this is fairly quiet for comments at the best of times, and my Dad's away so that's about 50% of my audience at a stroke. Just heard from a friend that it's not working, do me a favour and give it a try...[/neediness]UPDATE: Might ...

Guessing it's not all redundancies at the BBC

Does this sound like the BBC to you? It might not be I guess. I got this job ad seven times today, once recruitment companies get your details they WILL NOT EVER unsubscribe you. I have to report each one as spam now, it's for their own good...Hope y...

It's quite good isn't it?

I'm using it for everything right now! I've extended it quite a lot at work, this is the "out of the box" version though.

Anyway, where is Lost series four episode one?

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, migh...

Google Maps hacks

I'm sure you've checked out Saturday's walk around Canterbury by now, I've merged in the photos that I took along the way now too. Involved a bit of a hack really, Flickr offers a geocoded feed of my photos, and will let me narrow that down to say ju...

Google Maps API + Thickbox

Had some trouble for a while at work with getting our google maps working with this thickbox, and I put it off for ages (telling people not to put a map in a lightbox), but today I got to the bottom of it. Don't load your map until the lightbox has l...

Been quiet for a few days

No I've not been out on the larry-large every day over christmas, been a bit under the weather actually, though that's not what's kept me off the computer. When I'm not at work and Clare's home too I never get to sit in front of the computer, she's p...

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 ...

Hell 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...