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Splendid weekended

Great weekend, went to visit the folks and we got down in plenty of time to go to Portsmouth Dockyard and see the Mary Rose and the Victory. The Mary Rose was more interesting than I thought, it's not just a big lump of driftwood, but the Victory was less impressive than I remember. One change that I remember from childhood visits, the "Nelson fell here" plaque has been countersunk (at some point in the last twenty or thirty years) so no longer can people joke "I'm not surprised I nearly tripped over it myself". We have tickets for other aspects of the dockyard, including a boat trip around the harbour that I hope we'll get to use on another visit.

Great night out with my Mum and Dad, some FINE pints of Ringwood brewery's "Huffkin" in the Lloyds bar in Port Solent and a curry too.

Sunday got some paperwork from Dad, including the wills of my great great grandfather and my great great great grandfather, which I'm sure will be interesting when I can deciper the copperplate writing. We have some mroe family tree info from someone who it turns out is distantly related, which takes us back more generations than we knew before.

The journey home came around all too quickly, and it was dark, and it was raining, and there was no visibility, and it took us four hours to drive home.

Got an interesting email from someone who'd found this I lost my girlfriend to a rock star post on Folkestone Gerald saying "I was that girlfriend". Neither poster is me, or known to me, but maybe these people will get back in touch and form a beautiful new relationship. Or, more likely, each are married now to other people and two relationships will be crashed against the rocks of internet flirtations. I will keep you informed.

Adam Curry saviour of the universe!!!

Hmm, I know who wrote this story. I have stopped listening to all the podcasts I used to subscribe to. Even the Engadget show has lost it's appeal, now it's changed. Interesting to see Adam Curry and Dave Winer disagreeing in that piece, I thought they were working together on some way of commercialising this.

As a favour to a mate, I'm not going to talk about podcasting any more, let's say blogcasting instead.

Got a tonne of spam going on on my Family Tree forum, going to have to sort that out. I'm using the nofollow method for preventing comment spam, deleting links as they fly in, learning patterns and blocking domains, but I still might need to do more. Think this site was added to a database of "forums where you can freely post links" at the weekend, this came up in the referrers anyway:

http://devil/multisites/universe/gui_content/scripts/add_forum_to_db.php

be a bit wacky if it's just referer spam, as it doesn't go anywhere...

I need this

KISS bowling ball
A 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 I first thought it was, but I still liked it. Looks like their MySQL database is corrupt from here.

I implemented a new thing on my popex forums, so that updated threads move to the top of the board... seems to work well, but I expected it to liven things up a bit more. Not putting it on here, but I have on the family tree forum. That's not really busy enough to noticed a difference yet either.

Staying in London tonight, in on my own looks like, so getting a Chinese or some other food that Clare doesn't like, and playing computers. Getting on OK with eMule, though it's a bit slow, I've not sorted out my port forwarding and firewall bits, so I'm being hampered.

Hey I never noticed the subliminal arrow before.

welcome to the board

If you have any info that might help with our family tree, please leave it here...

Clarke Family Tree

www.Clarkeology.com is our Clarke genealogy site, set up to host the family tree info dug up by my Dad Barry Clarke, and turned into web pages by me, Paul Clarke. Click on either of those names to get climbing the tree from that point, or start at this page, or see the surnames, or the family tree forum.

We haven't found any royalty or money yet, but we have tracked down some surviving branches of our tree that we knew nothing about, and found we had relatives on the Titanic.

If you think you might have a link into our family tree, or would like to put out a request for assistance, please leave a message or drop me an email - pauly at clarkeology dot com... If you sign up for an account in this section you'll be able to add / update your own family details where relevant. Cool eh?

This site also contains my blog, with links to all the stuff I like - Folkestone gigs, pubs, property and Folkestone restaurant reviews these days, now we have long left Stoke Newington for the delights of the Kent coast... Also the usual stuff (work, TV, etc), and I'm trying to keep my eye in with things like SEO, CSS, validation and other bloggers at large... It's also got some works-in-progress, www.popbitch.com, www.folkestonegerald.com, and other friends sites.

Instead of googling for something like Folkestone pizza to find me, why not just go straight to that page, with a bookmark or something modern like that? I recommend del.icio.us for keeping track of other websites, though I might revise that if Microsoft buys them.