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More camera strangeness

I had a burst of five emails in a row from the camera, not sure if it's when I'd tweaked with the settings or not so no idea if it's working or not. Might try turning off the video attachment see if that's any easier on the email. Found lots of stuff...

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...

Bonekickers

Did you see Bonekickers on TV last night? I will watch some crap, but even I had to turn it off, it was so bad! I am still tempted to catch up on what I turned off on iplayer later, just to reassure myself that it was just about the worst thing ever....

Folkestone double death plunge smash horror tragedy!

Yoinks, yesterday someone chucked themselves off the roof of Bouverie Square in Folkestone, and today the end of our road was sealed off by police because of a "scene". Police were stopping anyone getting close to what had happened, so a) we had to w...

TFI The Weekend

Bit of a choppy working week, but now two days respite. Which is nice. So, off to see the family in a few minutes, hence being up and about at this time.Quiet night in last night, Brand new Rebus on TV, lots of swearing for an ITV show I thought, the...

"Caught By The Fuzz" for the "Who were Supergrass, Grandad?" generation

Lethal Bizzle's "Police On My Back" is a bit flippin' good isn't it? Who says I don't like new music, because I've listened to new music before and it's all rubbish? Oh, that'd be me.Also this week, I am listening to Suede rarities and bootlegs and t...

Hacking the WidePod

OK, I have not actually hacked the new ipod Touch yet, I do not have one and have not seen one in the flesh, but I wanted to have a post on subject anyway. I love the idea of being able to go online on the device, but if it's all geared towards just...

I found the sidebar stuff quite tricky actually

I can't remember how I did it right now, I can only suggest looking in the source, it's all integral. I'll try and update my source code with some comments when I get time... Or, having looked at it again, completely rewrite it, it's rubbish... This ...

RE: Scrap the licence fee

Tosh.So a company they use to make programs spiced up a show, it's hardly earth shattering. And so they messed up a couple of competitions - the technology for those things is quite flakey and no-one was hugely out of pocket like they were on Richard...

Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)

Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu...

Boom shake the room!

Well I suspect you've all been frantically refreshing wondering when I'd report from this morning's earthquake! Amazingly it was three and a half hours ago now, the power was off until just recently so there wasn't a lot I could do, no internets, and...

Too busy being festive to update

Been doing all the usual things though, one lot of xmas drinks with some friends that I don't see often enough, no christmas drinks with other friends that I'm not going to see now until after christmas, what with living too far away, a great shame. ...

Too much

Done far too much since my last posting to remember it all, but here's a go... Thursday was my last proper day at work, though they've asked me to stay on for another week, so that's christmas paid for. That night we were out for the popbitch christm...

Radio drama

Here's that radio drama I mentioned last week, it's a 7meg download. It's rubbish, but if you're subscribed to here via the medium of RSS, you might get it downloaded automatically podcast stylee.I'm still having trouble getting this working on vario...

Monday morning roundup

I'd heard of this before, but didn't know the reason why some councils are refusing to recycle shredded paper, that's pretty poor.Commercial director John Collis said: "The small pieces of paper tend to get trapped in the conveyor belts and cause a f...

Quiet night in Folkestone

Saturday we went on a bit of tour of Folkestone, just to remind us and our visitor Emma of some of the less salubrious joints in town. We were originally going to head into Hythe and get a curry, but Emma already had a dinner lined up, so decided to ...

A journey into the unknown...

Went to Ashford yesterday, for a day out, as Clare had the day off and we wanted to go bowling. Man alive, it's rubbish there... I'm kind of glad we hit the very worst high street type parts of the town first, as it meant that Ashford grew on us as t...

Weekend roundup

Keppel's Bar was very nice last Thursday, a real surprise, we'll definitely be back there again. They had live jazz in there that night (and every Thursday), a quiz on Friday that we couldn't go to, and other music nights, as well as all the events t...

How many have you watched though?

It's a rubbish idea, but once you get over that, it's well made. It's like so many of the TV shows I used to enjoy when I was a kid, but with KILLINGS!

You watching anything new then? Watching the new Losts?

Blood

I completely failed to give blood, that's three times I've been to the place where the blood drive is, and three times now I've got some detail or other wrong. First time, I'm sure they were open Tuesday and Wednesday, but I was wrong so I came back....

Roundup

Interview yesterday was good, but it's a small company and I'm still after more money than they can afford. It wis great to work on interesting projects, but I'm still holding out for a higher wage too right now, we have a mortgage and want a new hou...

Flickr, now with built in geocoding

Organize your flickr pics here, see, now you can map them direct from Organizr. Shame it's Yahoo maps (Yahoo own Flickr, they don't have detailed coverage of the UK.Back to my PHP - I've just rewritten my AJAX popup menu thing so the backend is now s...

Excellent 80s videos!!!

Look out linkers to excellent 80s videos, you're getting suckered. Insurancemovies.com has gathered together a load of free youtube content - the idea is you link to it (and if you just copied the URL or used the default title that it has on del.icio...

We don't really go out any more

Another smashing weekend, is it time for the next one yet? Saturday I played with the computer most of the day. Had no joy fitting the old big hard drive full of MP3s into the new computer, all the technology is different, the drive is SATA now so I'...

Another action packed weekender

The new computer est arriv�! Had no time to play with it yet as it's been such a busy weekend, and so had no time to get pictures off the camera yet, so my weekend diarisation and explanation is without illustration so far, sorry (see pictures by my ...

What I done on my weekend

Huge weekend then, we really packed quite a lot in. Started off with a Friday off, though still a commute up to London, we had our trips to Admiralty House and Number 10, through Clare's work.Instead of snoozing on the way up to London I took the opp...

Welcome to Miami!

Or, rather, from Miami, or even (by the time I write this up) hello from England, Miami sends its regards. Just BACK from a trip to the US of States to visit Clare's bro and sister-in-law in the pan-handle bit of the Americas. Tiring flight over to M...

It's Not Easy Being Green

I quite enjoyed this programme last night, if you have not seen it here's a book of it, it's about a family who obviously have a shitload of money becoming an eco commune. Generally, posh hippies make me want to kick the telly in, but this was quite ...

Just five more minutes

Went for quick drinks to a popbitch party yesterday at The Player, it's cool there, and the cocktails were free. Stayed up a bit too late at home also, so feeling like RUBBISH today. Early to bed tonight.My ajax scripts have been running across all p...

Weekend report

Super weekend, starting with The Mighty Boosh at the LCH, funny, good, we felt a bit old though, they do attract a young audience, lots of whom were dressed up. I maybe enjoyed the show a bit more than my companions, though it did feel a bit like a c...

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