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Stoke Newington Action

No Stokey action for several days now, stayed in last night, tonight going to Highbury Garage for *cough* some band *cough* because Corporation:Blend are supporting and a chum is involved in some managerial way...On the bus on the way in this morning...

Robbie Williams!

Just discovered today that in one month, my day job website popex sold THIRTY GRANDS worth of Robbie Tickets, through this page here... mad eh?Also talking of day job websites, the Barfly Cardiff listings page is now updated directly from the calenda...

Fight the power

It's trad in the world of blogs to link to other blogs that you find, so here's a fellow complaining about poor service, and here's my cow-orker, also complaining. Hopefully not about me. Tried to post these last night, but blueyonder went all shitty...

Favelets

AKA bookmarklets. Saw these mentioned on pidster.com yesterday, and then blow me, saw one in action today... as I get it it's the art of putting a little bit of javascript in as a bookmark / favourite... I've not done this exactly, but the new "appro...

Morrissey

Also, liking the look of this, as detailed here. Not so sure what it'll sound like, but it's got style. Might get this Smiths book......

is this your car?

the car crash I mentionedWell that's the smashed car I mentioned, the number plates have been ripped off it, maybe a case of stolen car identity like I read about yesterday in The Times... can't find the article online though, and if I could, you'd h...

WE HAVE COME FOR YOUR HARD DRIVE

Just put the Foo Fighters album One By One in my computer for the first and it's TAKEN OVER my computer... everything hung until I pressed the eject button, then things were fine, tried again, and it did the same... then I decided to leave it a bit l...

Supergrass

More Folkestone gigs action, Supergrass play the Leas Cliff Hall on the 21st of May, see Folkestone gigs for more details, or get tickets from hereFor loads more gigs, see folkestonegerald.com......

Stokefest

That website is all about looking for sponsorship, there's not a lot out there for punters in terms of lineups etc... Hank Wangford played at the Vortex on Friday, didn't know about it until we went there for breakfast yesterday though... Well recomm...

Working from home

First day went fine, got everything done, need to get a new chair though, this isn't that comfortable. Got to go back to work tomorrow for a meeting, am I sacked? Hope not.Found a Milo Manara website , was inspired to search by the rather saucy poste...

Maggots Michael, you're eating maggots...

Not my house, this is the fridge where I work... haven't used the fridge in all the time I've been there, and I don't think I'll be starting now.Working from home today, planning out my future projects so they can be cross charged properly.Todays tas...

Back in the Office

Todays tasks, same as yesterdays:plotting a rewrite of popex trading / price adjustingpopex admin, deleting accounts etccontinuing beast server rebuild - virtual servers may or may not be working...Sure to be more support for Barfly GlasgowMade a new...

Another task list

Up early to sort of fix broken noisy toilet - go Pauly the Plumber!Making a way of having "bands" in the popex database, without people being able to trade in them, or them being listed anywhere... starting with this guy as a test...popex admin, dele...

Tasks

BACK in the office today for a meeting, so preparing for that... DANN rain overnight meant water was flowing in the bedroom window again. SMASHING barbecue at the weekend, now have to decide if we can find the time to go to on holiday with the same c...

Glastonbury

Off to Glastonbury on Thursday, and just been told by a mate that this guy is there already, taking pictures, nice!Going to REM tomorrow and Kelly Osbourne on Wednesday, bit of a packed week...Oh "deer" this poor feller is trapped within the Glasto...

not using popex message boards

Barfly / Channelfly not so keen on having a chat board thing.

More tasks

popex admin, deleting accounts, reading mail, adding bandsFurther testing of new "gig mail" thing that will send you a mail when tickets for your fave band go on sale, is it working or not?Barfly tweak - automated magazine listings were including inf...

REM and Old Rosie

Hey they have Old Rosie in the Beehive in Brixton... long way to go for a pint really, and BLEE head is hurting today... Working from home, tasks so far:adding bands based on midweeksstirring up the popex boards goign to make them popbitch style see ...

Like busses...

No, not actually about busses this one, it's a metaphor... someone's interested in running their own version of popex, and we're going to make some money out of it, that's nice... now following the celebdaq / bafta malarky, someone else has come alon...

And back to work

moved deskcleared 1200 odd mails, mostly spamCaught up with popex admin, adding bands, processing charts etcFixed up popex error pages, new server handles errors differently, and we need to serve ads on error pages...Tweaked popex gig mail, seems to ...

Working from home

popex admin, including reviewing, deleting accounts, answering queriesExpanding popex as part of Jason's projectStreamlining page generating pages as part of the expansion, make more content in less timeImproving ticket mail thing, very excitingLots ...

Darkness Tour

NICE ONE, got my invite to the Darkness album launch party on Monday, after much prompting... also selling tickets to all their dates now through popex:The Darkness @ Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire (Sat 4 Oct) [info / details]The Da...

Darkness Album arrived today

so back in the office to pick it up... tasks:Admin and reviewing and news story preparing for popexExtracting content from The Fly magazine for use in linking to them from popex, generating page impressions and thatFurther chasing of ringtones deal, ...

Doing a deal...

Doing mailouts galore! Ladytron is still going out, The Darkness one didn't, doing a Sony one paying and a Fly regional one not paying, and a Junior Senior one soon...Investigating upgrade path for popex serverRe-ordering security levels for barfly s...

Oops

I think this just rejected some messages, I was messing with the form method. FASCINATING STUFF!Nearly as exciting as this: popex.com/temp/XMLHttpRequest.html I'm using XMLHttpRequest javascript to do some FUNKY STUFF. Big shout out to webpasties.com...

Barfly admin

Back to work again, it's a scorcher today, would have been ideal to work from home, don't know why I didn't... TONIGHT, might go to the The Darkness instore at HMV, they sounded ace on XFM this morning, live from Sound in Leicester Square...Barfly ad...

CONCEPT ALBUM

I'm listening to Mark's album "This is not a library" at last, and I can' tdecide if it really is a concept album, or if there is some clever copy protection in place that knows I got a copy for free and is repeating the titular phrase in each of the...

Barfly admin

adding new usersrearranging users' security levels to allow for adding new users (most of day)testing new barlfy liverpool venuesrewriting popex code for speedsorting stats on emails for sales...

Lyrics

Grooming the lyrics section today... about 20% of traffic comes to these pages, so a good place to serve ads and ask jeeves links.Chasing up and forwarding on payment / permission details for various dealsFixing / investigating problem on barflyclub....

Working from home

Mostly just popex admin todayIntegrating more Fly content into popex, Barfly listings this time, writing a script to output it in the same format that Wayahead and Ticketmaster do that I already process... won't earn any money, but it's a bit of cros...

David Devant

Somewhere, can't remember where this gig was but I mentioned it on popex...

Grand Theft Auto

nothing to do with the game, or the ex 3 Colours Red band of this name, was some popexers, at an event called Peep Show. No not that Peep Show either.

The Pogues

Or was it just Shane McGowan? And was it Brixton or the Astoria?. Support from I Am Kloot anyway I wrote about it on popex. Ah, I was not there anyway....

Gene

think I was at this, I wrote about it on popex

Tompaulin

Airport Girl and more. Don't really remember this one but I seemed to say I was going on popex!

Glastonbury 1999

I only remember REM I hope i wrote more on popex at the time that I can find later...