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I must have something more interesting to write about than php?

Um, no, perhaps not.I got a new hard drive at last, after all the problems I had with the ibook and having to send it back, I didn't rush into getting another backup job, but I saw a bargain at Maplin Seagate 500GB FreeAgent, and it seems to be worki...

My gigography

Just done some fiddling about on the site, rearranged the gigography a tiny bit. Now, first time you go there the big boring explanation of what it's all about should still appear at the top of the page. BUT, here's the clever bit, if you then click ...

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job

No posts for a few days, I had something to say but wanted to wait until I got an official confirmation and things. Yes I'm back in the land of the permanently employed, just arranged some final details today and I start at Holiday Extras on Monday! ...

Going underground

Half day today, it's the day of the great lunch outing, going with some buddies on a tour of Down Street Underground Station this afternoon. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), was a station of the ...

Lovely day today

Super bright on leaving Folkestone, just so sunny as to be unreal. Very cold though, and only going to get colder this week. Could see lots of stars clearly from bed last night (through the open blinds, no missing roof or anything) so it's possibly r...
Rated 5.35/10 on Folkestone Gerald

EASY! 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...

Best Gigs Ever

Hmm, having no joy tracking down the full 100 of Time Out's best london gigs chart they did last issue, but prompted by a thread on PopExcellent I've had a think about my top five gigs... I'm sure I'll think of more later and strike these out...1. Bl...

Idleberry

Another popex chum is blogging...

Google ups the stakes again

I've only just got into using javascript's XMLHttpRequest to do proper dynamic pageness, and I'm going to expand on that as it's worked pretty well in popex. If you want to see it working, go there, log in and type a band name or part of a name into ...

Weak roundup

Aargh, had loads of things I wanted to write, and I can't remember a word of it now. It was going to be a big eloquent post today, proper blogging, but now it's just going to be a scattering of mostly unrelated paragraphs.Joined the Amazon rental sch...

Weekend of travels

A great weekend in Folkestone though we seem to have been travelling around Kent for most of it. Raced down to go to Chambers Friday night, had a couple of pints in there and then shockingly left before closing, a bit tired... Saturday overslept unti...

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Diverted via East Bank and the post office this morning, to collect my Darkness tickets, and saw an accident on the way. A car pulled out without indicating, right into a cyclist. Both going at fairly slow speeds, so no damage done I don't think, tho...

Blogshares

Had forgotten about this one, cheers MuddyFunkster... bit like popex, but trading in blogs instead, I'm on there too... Nice graphs, not sure how up to date it is though.This is going to be another one of those posts that no-one understands isn't it?...

RSS

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: All that info below is well out of date, I do have a new PHP based RSS querying thing which I'm using in my AJAX apps now.Just reasserting what I'm doing with RSS here... my list of feeds from this site can be found here, and he...

At last!

The Pope Blog

Another boiler!

Lots of things I could do today, but it's hot again in the office, and I feel that's going to be a distraction... got to feed popex with chart info, this is normally a task for monday, but the ongoing problems have slowed me down a lot... nice to com...

Various evils and work

Various evils and various work related things, no evil work related things though... Just about ready to go on the relaunch of www.barflyclub.com, at last, this has been hanging around so long, there are so many people involved... even at this stage ...

Hey Crackhead

I like This guys rant about his spark plugs, via www.popdex.com... Apart from that, I don't find spontaneous street crime that funny right now, got a bit of a slap trying to stop one group of youths beating on another group of youths last week. No, I...

Updates of the day

Got the David Devant single today, there's a review up here, get tickets for their Dingwalls show... Also some more links to Goldie Lookin' Chain pictures... They're playing live tonight, supporting the Super Furry Animals, and also at some "new band...

London Fleadh

Fleadh launch was a nice opportunity for a free drink,though there was very little announce that hadn't already been leaked, only Christy Moore, but more will be announced soon.Very busy at work right now, though I've been hassled less since losing m...

Popdex

Not to be confused with my very own www.popex.com, Popdex is an index of websites, rated by how many times they've been linked to from weblogs, I think. It's a good source of memes and not-quite-news, so I'm checking it more often as of today...A bit...

Office Cleaning Day

Rushing through my PopEx admin this morning (charts to add, etc) then this afternoon is the great office clean, bit odd, then a big company meeting, even odder.Have noticed lots of wacky referers, that aren't actually referers at all, but are showing...

Things should be back up to speed now

Everything had been shut down while I was away awaiting my approval - like I know what I'm doing! SO, everything is turned back on now, expect stuff to start crashing badly in about 10 minutes.If things DID just crash badly, that's not a mistake, I h...

PEACE!

The nephews have gone home, it's been a fantastic week, but tiring... haven't spent that much time with them both, EVER! Looking forward to our family holiday we've just booked for 20 of us in Greece somewhere.Today; washing, tidying, sitting, watchi...

Spam

Doing monster spam for Ericsson mobile phones today, it's taking all day! It's quite a nice looking product as it goes. In amongst the bounces and auto replies I have been offered the opportunity to find out what dying stickman I am.Have found out I ...

Friday

Today, tinkered with Barfly module, processed lots of mails and punter deletions and made enhancements to popex, specifically adding new bands and furthering the recruitment drive, nice.Blee, death in the family this morning, and also a surprise secr...

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...

Favelets

AKA bookmarklets. Saw these mentioned on www.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 "a...