2008-06-13UTC06:04:27Too boringLess posts about PHP, javascript and KML to come, as my friend - let's call him the cowardly civil servant to offer him some anonymity - found it boring. While he was reading at work. How do you find the time mate? I'll tell you what's boring, it's m... 2008-03-05UTC09:14:20Ever feel lacking in skills?I do, all my skills are in software, if the power went off tomorrow I'd be SUNK! I wish I had more hardware skills, not just computer hardware, but general mechanics and making and fixing things. Here's an interesting article along those lines from w... 2007-12-31UTC09:52:02Been quiet for a few daysNo I've not been out on the larry-large every day over christmas, been a bit under the weather actually, though that's not what's kept me off the computer. When I'm not at work and Clare's home too I never get to sit in front of the computer, she's p... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10799/Been+quiet+for+a+few+days">Rated 6.88/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-12-14UTC03:48:25Hell yeah, encouragement, that's what I need!Well it was a lunch more than an actual party, and there's really not a huge amount to report, and you're not interested anyway, but HELLO TO ME IN THE FUTURE, how's it going five years from now? Do you remember that day, about five years ago, when y... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10768/Hell+yeah%2C+encouragement%2C+that%27s+what+I+need%21">Rated 4.07/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-11-24UTC12:05:44Fake GAP voucherHmm, I smell bullshit, there's a supposedly fake GAP voucher doing the rounds offering a 60% discount at GAP today, I heard about this on www.bbc.co.uk/breakfast - don't worry though, GAP will still be offering a genuine 30% discount to anyone turnin... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10706/Fake+GAP+voucher">Rated 4.07/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-11-23UTC08:54:57Captain JackI got a ticketmaster email today to tell me John Barrowman is playing Portsmouth Guildhall... doing what? Acting out scenes from Doctor Who, or a medley of songs from his West End showdays? Intriguing, I might go if it was local. And if it wasn £27. ... 2007-11-22UTC07:53:08New JSON feed of my blogOh that'll come in handy for all those mashups based around me you've been planning... Not a straight feed of what I post every day, it searches the content of the site, probably seven or eight years worth of postings now. JSON is "javascript object ... 2007-10-18UTC03:45:59It's called a carouselI think the Flash version was a free download... Originally we were going with a really cool javascript solution but there were problems in Safari I think...Google for free flash carousel download or something...... 2007-09-05UTC12:56:52All sounds a bit "non standard" to meYeah, the more javascript you get to do the better, but I'm not into flash, like I'm not into .net...Going back to where you used to work is COOL, have you had a step up in pay or is it for enjoyment or some other reason?Hmm, by "non standard" I mean... 2007-09-02UTC05:31:31jquery is greatI use it for everything, it's well recommended. I'm sure prototype is good now too, but jquery is tiny, and does everything you need, and the code you write with it is tiny too. I have got really into the way you select things to do things to too. As... 2007-08-31UTC06:22:19xml namespaces in jqueryHow do I access xml tags in other namespaces using jquery? If I have some xml like: hey yeah woo I can easily get any of the elements with something like $('thing')but how do I get them if the elements are namespaced, like hey yea... 2007-07-13UTC06:01:14RE: Interactive map of FolkestoneThank you for puting out such an amazing site!I myself am going to make a google map API with information about the bars and pubs around our conference venue. I have no experience in javascript, but I managed to put on markers and their info windows... 2007-05-12UTC09:19:03Wagamama todayGoing to spend a fairly lazy day around the pubs of Canterbury, starting with a lunch at Wagamama, and HEY, we got a voucher: That's from this feature that a friend alerted us to, we'd be going there today anyway though, nice.Had a good week, felt bu... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10212/Wagamama+today">Rated 7.77/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-05-09UTC10:00:26Sweet titles revisitedI've replaced some code at work with sweet titles from Dustin Diaz, that I've been using here for ages - hover over most of the links, more info will probably pop up. The original author has long stopped updating this code, too many stupid comments f... 2006-11-30UTC10:51:43Thursday morning roundupJust caught the end of something on BBC Breakfast, advice on blogging and work, or why not to blog about work, something like that. A few sites / posts were held up as bad examples, I wasn't one of them, it was all fairly basic stuff:* Don't be posti... 2006-11-12UTC06:56:46Number one result for "Habitat Radius"Was just trying to find the furniture we bought at the weekend, and all the top results are me, how strange. It's down to Habitat's website being quite bad, the whole flash interface makes it hard to index, so my pages are coming up top. ANYWAY, here... 2006-08-30UTC01:32:24Flickr, now with built in geocodingOrganize 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... 2006-06-27UTC10:00:38Sofa, so goodSMART, just got a call from Furniture Village, our new sofa is on the way! They'll be calling again on Friday to arrange a two hour delivery window on Saturday... WAITAMINUTE, not World Cup Saturday surely? What if they can only deliver it during the... 2006-06-14UTC01:31:44Done my Javascript referer thingSee my landing page thing in action like so:Google for Paul Clarke CVClick on the Paul Clarke CV link in the google resultsWait for the very exciting floating window to appear on the results saying "I see you came here from a search result (for Paul ... 2006-05-09UTC11:20:55Day 4, IPOD battery still behavingSo, my IPOD opening skills are up to scratch, my web development skills are lacking today. I'm using a new firefox extension that alerts you to memory leak errors in javascript... I have tonnes! I'm going to have to disable it again, as there's no wa... 2006-04-21UTC10:02:06What am I, a scone?Spent most of yesterday doing doctory things, had to head down to the surgery and register, see a nurse, fill forms, fill something else, etc. Then much hanging around until I could get to see a doctor. Too much of this was in the waiting room. Parts... 2006-03-30UTC10:08:17PortentousStrange air about the world today - it's a fabulous day here in London, but the light and atmosphere feel a bit WEIRD. Could be that I've headed into town half an hour later than normal, or an actual armageddon could be on the way. Came into Cannon S... 2006-02-13UTC10:21:21Weekend reportSuper 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... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/4632/Weekend+report"><img alt="Weekend report" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1392/638384072_55e1c71c64.jpg" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/4632/Weekend+report">Rated 4.73/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2005-11-23UTC09:54:37EASY! EASY! EASY!Every morning we watch ten minutes or so of gm.tv while we're having our tea and toast, and every morning one of their news stories is about X-Factor, it's such a huge dirty scam. Today's tale is a terrible example of what I'm on about, as everyone's... 2005-11-17UTC03:05:14More JavascriptFound the source of my problem with internet explorer, it's with var c = obj.getAttribute('class'); need to replace it with var c = getAttribute(obj,'class');function getAttribute( elm, aname ) { var avalue = elm.getAttribute( aname ); if ( ! ava... 2005-11-11UTC01:10:03It's all go todayIt's all go today, XFM Winter Wonderland tickets sold out before I managed to send out a spam about them, so now doing a bit of marketing of The Eagles Farewell Tour. I'd like to see them, but it's 75 quid or so for tix... did this suddenly turn into... 2005-11-03UTC09:47:08Got it now, hang on in there if you're interestedI added a new thing to the cookie that this board sets, I'm saving the date you last visited. This way I could (in the future) highlight the messages posted since you last visited, compact the main page so that new replies are expanded straight away,... 2005-09-21UTC11:52:50Fading mouseover tooltip thingJust put some funky javascript on here from this site that does neat fading tool tip mouse over things, I like it. Also made the "reply to this message" page a little bit neater, tidied some things away and copied a bit off flickr.com can you tell wh... 2005-06-28UTC11:21:02Google map favelet javascriptjavascript:void(z=document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')));void(z.language='javascript');void(z.type='text/javascript');void(z.src='http://www.popex.ukshells.co.uk/gmapTown.js');void(z.id='gmLatLonJS'); Here's a bookmarklet to gra... 2005-04-13UTC08:31:54Of course I have an RSS feedIf you're going to syndicate it make sure the content is proper links back to here, none of this flash nonsense! Have you seen how I am using AJaX on here now? Flash is dead in the water now the common man like me has figured out this Asynchronous Ja...