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Aye

Thank you for Popex Pauly. The game wouldn't have been the same without your steadfastly balanced moderation, and steadfastly undemocratic approach.. You managed to entertain an awful lot of people for a very long time. There are a good few slightly ...

X-Files???

Are you having a laugh? Some other good suggestions in there though, cheers... Also, because it might amuse you:I take by the fact I have no Million discs left you no longer want me as a player. Just say so and I will delete my account, as you have m...

PSP update

I updated Clare's PSP yesterday, it's now got a new version of it's little operating system, which you can download direct from Sony. As well as some security issues and the ability to play Windows Media files now, it's got an RSS reader too. I hope ...

I have a dream

No not a good dream at all, I dreamt that I sold Clare's engagement ring, not just for less than it's worth, but the money I got for it all turned out to be fake. When I was half awake this morning I thought it was true and was so upset and confused....

Blubberdog

Last weekend, I made a nice sandwich, we called it a blubberdog. It was a frenche campagne loaf, with peanut butter, tofu pieces, chilli, and some salad, and I thought that was pretty big. Of course it's not the biggest sandwich in the world but at ...

Lovely weekend, thanks for asking

Had a few beers on Friday night in The Coal Hole on The Strand, a few more more than the one I intended, but great to see people. Was running late (having put the popex redesign mostly live), so had to get a cab there from work. It's stupid but I fel...

Best Gigs Ever

Hmm, having no joy tracking down the full 100 of Time Out's best london gigs chart they did last issue, but prompted by a thread on PopExcellent I've had a think about my top five gigs... I'm sure I'll think of more later and strike these out...1. Bl...

Lord of the Rings - The Musical

Doh, there will be no London opening for a forthcoming musical of JRR Tolkein's (that's who wrote it, did you know that?) Lord Of The Rings, reports The Guardian and many others... This will be the most expensive musical ever made, and there's not a ...

Manic Tuesday

Had a long weekend in Folkestone, but I have returned to chaos... www.popex.com, www.record-producers.com, www.channelfly.com and other work sites all down... not big issues to fix, but annoying... one of them the power lead had fallen out the back....

Rated 8.3/10 on Folkestone Gerald

I need this

KISS bowling ballA KISS bowling ball indeed... it doesn't even come with finger holes in it! Get it here, via www.kissonline.com.Very cold again today, but no snow here in London. How long's www.popdex.com going to be down then? It's not as useful as...

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Diverted via East Bank and the post office this morning, to collect my Darkness tickets, and saw an accident on the way. A car pulled out without indicating, right into a cyclist. Both going at fairly slow speeds, so no damage done I don't think, tho...

RSS

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: All that info below is well out of date, I do have a new PHP based RSS querying thing which I'm using in my AJAX apps now.Just reasserting what I'm doing with RSS here... my list of feeds from this site can be found here, and he...

Another day, another mouse

Found another mouse in our kitchen, alive again. This one looked a lot healthier, lessly wobbly and confused, but he still didn't make any effort to run away. Just look at this cute little feller. I put him out in the street and he scurried away, pro...

Other people's blogs

It's time for a roundup of things I've lazily ripped off www.casino-avenue.co.uk before heading home, first this piece about metblogs, interesting. I am trying REALLY HARD to read something rude into "soliciting... advertising" but I can't quite make...

URL Encoding

Had a hiccup when trying to make content management system convert any content that's past through it to be valid HTML... my code for converting ampersands in URLs was messing about, making some bad URLs... so how do I convert & into & without co...

Oh dear Alan

I made this today for a cheap laugh, based on what Stephen Fry does on the quiz show QI for an answer that's too obvious, it's coming in handy on the message boards... Any argument works after the ?, like www.popex.com/cgi-bin/obvious?106, www.popex....

Charles Valentine Clarke

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Stoke Newington

Just noticed that there are loads of new pretenders to the throne of Googling for Stoke Newington this weblog doesn't appear at all any more, since I trimmed some stuff out... stokenewington.co.uk doesn't appear any more either, I wonder if it's a co...

Competition Crazy!

So, not only did I actually send out prizes to Friday's best trader, and not only did one of the main board's own win tickets to the Pink Grease / Chikinki show in Stoke, and not only do I have a pile of Pink Grease CD's here ready to send out, but t...

Daily productivity

Sorted out a mailing list oddity that was left over from last week, IPC wanting different listings to other people... bodged it by hand last time, and it didn't go out automatically on that day. Also fixed up something annoying where HTML was appeari...

Oyster Card Fears

My Oyster card messed up for the first time today, I'm not sure staff really know what to do when this happens. First bus it worked fine, then on the next bus in Finsbury Park it gave me a red light. The driver didn't know what this meant, except tha...

Manchester LA LA LA

This is a repost from the PopExcellent message board, they're having a meet up at the Electric Six gig in December... why not chip in on their board and go to? I have bought tickets for ELECTRIC SIX at the Manchester University on Saturday 6th Decemb...

Redesign

Working mostly on the redesign of popex today, talking punters round to the idea of the board looking different to how it does now... maybe make it more like this? I like how only the big subjects appear on the index, and then you click through to se...

Bhangra on PopEx

Hi, if it was you who emailed me this:Hey if i give you a load of names for Bhangra(indian) music could you put them all on the list of people you can buy. I feel that it is only fair to put Bhangra people onthe list becausethey do sing and do do som...

A good night's sleep

No, not actually a good night's sleep, I woke up at about four, shouting something about spaghetti... perhaps it was all the excitement of getting the IPOD working... I think the only reason it was slow once I'd upgraded to Windows 2000 is that some ...

robots.txt

Thought I'd better revisit my old script that crawls websites looking for mentions of bands, so as to affect their divis on popex, as the script is very old, and wasn't looking at robots.txt, oops... will do more on it today, but in the mean time it'...

PEACE!

The nephews have gone home, it's been a fantastic week, but tiring... haven't spent that much time with them both, EVER! Looking forward to our family holiday we've just booked for 20 of us in Greece somewhere.Today; washing, tidying, sitting, watchi...

Some links to add to popex when it's back

http://www.popex.com is being moved while I'm taking a few days off, got these out of my mail that I want to put in the links section...http://johntitor.com/http://www.alice.dryden.co.uk/ho_for_hoggwarts.htmhttp://www.matazone.co.uk/Kitten-ace-of-spa...

Electric Soft Parade

Sending a mailshot to all popexers about the Electric Soft Parade Tourpopex adminBarfly development, most of the dayJust been reminded by Need To Know that it is the Artists Against Success do at Brixton Windmill this Thursday, not been there before....

Database corruption again

Fixed it and wrote a script that checks every ten minutes if something's corrupt, if it is it fixes it... should have done this a long time ago. Going to be wroking on all day.Tweak to the getGigs script that lists gigs on popex, adding an automatic ...