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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...

PHP 4 to 5 migration

Bit of an all encompassing thing this, I use PHP for work and for home, I've pretty much abandoned perl since I joined Holiday Extras a year and a half ago. PHP4, widely used everywhere, (including on this blog) is about to die. It's been on it's way...

Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

If a picture paints a thousand words...

Does this video clip of us in Belgium this weekend make anything I have to say on the subject completely redundant?See, Mum, Dad, Clare and me on a humungous big wheel, part of the Plaisers d'Hiver festival type affair that was going in Brussels this...

Immortalise someone for Christmas!

If you are immortalised in oil, next time someone says 'you're no oil painting' you will be able to cut them dead when you produce before their very eyes the Christmas present you got for your wife in 2007 - a picture of yourself! - Actually, Kev (of...

The wedding (being the first part of my two week holiday write up)

We started our little trip with a wedding, the least possible wedding that was still attached to home by land that I have ever been to. This was somewhere one side of the Scottish border, and the reception was just the other side, which was quite a n...

Long weekend

Been away a long time (apart from my little post this morning about wireless things) and we fitted quite a lot in really, felt like a proper holiday since my complaints about QI.Our afternoon out in Canterbury was good, though not absolutely everythi...
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

I love the smell of salami in the morning

The office is liberally decorated with german sausage this morning, the company just launched a new service selling Europa Parks, tickets and hotels and all that and to celebrate we have a smorgasbord of German food, if that's not a contradiction. Th...

Boohoo, I preferred their earlier stuff

This is rubbish:Oh, boohoo, i preferred the earlier stuff, now everyone's got an IPOD, it's not fair! What sort of massive 'lord is he anyway if he has to keep taking his computer into the "genius" bar to get it fixed? Just bang it on the desk until...

Hot weekend

Weekend was ace wasn't it? We started with a lunchtime pint with work at a nice pub called The Drum, then a few drinks just the wife and me. Saturday we headed to The Whole World Cafe, and what do you know it was actually open this time? We were a bi...

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

I thought things looked funny from the train last night

Looking out of my window I could see lots of lorries queued up in the dark, I thought it was the entrance to the tunnel but wondered why I'd not noticed it before... Seems the M20 was closed last night, Operation Stack came into effect:Motorists were...

Tweaker

Been stuck for hours speeding up javascript on You Write The News today, so decided to do some graphics for a change on Folkestone Gerald... What do you reckon, does it look professional and that? Maybe it would look more so if my horizon was straigh...

RE: John WINDEBANK

There was a Windebank coat of arms but it was not hereditary. It was awarded to only one Windebank and unfortunately it died with him. The same applied with the Baronecy.I am tracing the Windebank's of Fritham and Bramshaw but have got stuck at 1789....

I don't want it now, I can't afford it

I went a bit mad pushing the price up for fun, and now I might get stuck with it, gah... As you say I'm sure there will be more bids at the end, surprising there were any bids before me actually.UPDATE: praise be I've been outbid, I couldn't really a...

Folkestone - seventh best holiday resort in the UK

From the Guardian:Sam Hill, spokeswoman for the Camping and Caravanning Club, which has an amazing 400,000 members in the UK (most of them stuck in front of me on the motorway), recommends Folkestone and the Kent coast. "It's gorgeous," she says. "Th...

RE: That is strange, it ought to be the same results

well there's a pocket version of quicken, but the prob with this is that the manufacturers of quicken have stopped doing stuff for the UK - if i buy a US copy will i be stuck with DOLLARS?? alternatively, there are a number of pocketpc progs which wi...

I was about to say "I've heard this theory before"

And then NOING, I see a comment from me, posted in another time, saying just that!Are we stuck in a loop?MARTY, WE GOTTA GO BACK!http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000B8TJ3A/clarkeology-21# ]]...

RE: Tofts did move

I do know that Tofts still was on Grace Hill in 1973 under this name. I was on an English course in Folkestone that year and never came back later. Toft's was one of our favourite haunts, although we mostly stuck to the girls from our English course,...

So why do we get stuck with...

Kevin Bloody Wilson, when Portsmouth Guildhall gets Morrissey? Bah...Very much enjoying our Mighty Boosh DVD, and looking forward to the show! I've given them their own special graphic and smoothed some of the corners on the calendar, see it all on t...

Parcel Farce

Oh man I love automated phone systems, just been stuck in parcel farce's stupid automated phone system. Once I got through to an operator it was all cool, I can collect these Christmas presents (yeah, bit last minute), but I had a fake sincere actors...

Folkestone under the hammer

Folkestone on TV, apparently Folkestone's on "Homes Under The Hammer" on BBC right now, what a time to be stuck at work... Anyone see it?

Exciting things to do today

* Tabs for navigation for popex... I kind of like tabtastic, but it doesn't seem quite clean enough.* Right padding on headings on here - see how it's merging into the side bar up the top right there?* Click to add new things to my map* Left padding ...

Santa Barbara

On leaving San Francisco and Monterey we went to Santa Barbara... This was a LONG drive, but quite a nice one. Where possible we stuck to Cal-1 the pacific coast highway, but we had to go back on route 101 for part of it. Tough call to make, Cal-1 is...

Bank holiday WEEKENDER!

Stop panicking everyone, I'm back, reporting on updates of the weekend... Quite literally THREE PEOPLE said on the phone that they thought something was up / I'd gone away somewhere because the site wasn't updated over the weekend. Sorry! How will yo...

Oh my The Guardian says it's happening again!

blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2005/07/21/incidents_on_the_tube.html - can this all be following this mornings problems? Three tubes and a bus AGAIN? Sit tight and keep your eye on the news everyone. I have spoken to Clare she is at Victoria wait...

Damn I had a really good headline in mind for this

SO, went to Ireland at the weekend, and it was very nice! Here will follow my little review of where we went and what we did, and things I recommend and things I don't.Friday morning we had a wedding meeting at Lympne Castle, TOO EARLY, and too many ...

Passenger's charter

Dumper of a journey in today, something up with the train at Folkestone resulted in the driver not letting anyone on until something (I overheard) had been "rebooted"... we puffed and we pootled as far as Westenhanger (two stops) and then got stuck b...

Randall and Hopkirk (Disqualified)

Had a great idea for a TV show for Vic Reeves, but on trying to explain it to Clare, it didn't sound quite so great or funny. Only the title is good, so there you go just think "Randall and Hopkirk (Disqualified)" and have a little chuckle to yoursel...

Le commute

Got stuck with someone REALLY ANNOYING in our carriage today, she jibbered and jabbered all the way in. SHUT UP, surely the first carriage is the quiet one? I think it's time to make some "No Talking" stickers to go next to the "No Smoking" signs, se...

The wrong carriage!

We're starting to get into a proper Reggie Perrin routine in the mornings now, saying the same things at the same time. We're doing it IRONICALLY, I promise. Anyway, this morning there really *did* seem to be more commuters waiting on the platform at...

Metro

Setlist: "Bareback", "Black Shuck", "Best of me", "Love is only a feeling", "Get your hands off", "Givin' up", "Stuck in a rut", "I believe in a thing called love", "Love on the rocks with no ice"