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Limited updates from me today, just shut my finger in the car door, so only my left hand is in action.Not broken, but can't type so well. Oh dear, can't do the housework either.Made my first mapplet on Friday. Going to investigate more, mapplets and ...

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...

Some popbitch updates

Had a quiet night in last night, while Clare was out down Chambers with her bro, putting the world to rights. So, did some coding that I'd meant to do for ages, and put a new "new" feature on the popbitch board; posts that are new since your last vis...

Twitter

Just revisited twitter.com for the first time since I don't know when, as I noticed it was one of my jabber instant messenger buddies. I must have set this up when it first launched, but I don't think it worked right away. I just sent a message to my...

My recommended events

Cool, just discovered my recommended events at last.fm, and I see loads of bands that I like or liked in the past are playing live about now, including bands that I didn't really know were still going, including Love / Hate, Sheep on Drugs, Ricky Spo...

RE: Dude

Folkstone earthquake updates please!

Tales of mystery and imagination

No family tree updates for a little while, though I'm off to investigate The Grants of Winterbourne Stoke again in case I missed anything before, one of my great great great grandfathers is there. In the mean time, here's a smashing super rare copy o...

Folkestone gig history

Been doing some gig history updates, I found some Prodigy, Gary Numan, and Leatherface gigs, and then found this on a myspace page:In 1993 Bonbooshe disbanded and I joined Glasshouse with Geoff and Ian Davies and spent 3 years with them recording, gi...

Updates

Travel update: twenty minutes late today, eitehr track circuit failure, or track surface failure, I was a bit too asleep to hear it. How can the surface fail? Must have been circuit. Why couldn't it have been another ten mins delay, taking us into re...

Transport updates

Journey times have been much better since Monday. If I race out of the door here at six, I get a train at Cannon Street that gets me home without changing for eight fifteen. Bit boring travelling on my own, but I'm plodding on with these book, and re...

Blog alerts

Google blog search has either just had some kind of upgrade, or it's only just discovered my sites; I'm suddenly getting dialy email alerts with all my posts in. This is GOOD, I've been subscribing to a Folkestone alert for a year or so, getting upda...

The Gay Train

New video of a song by my friends MJ Hibbett and the Validatorsvideo is by Rob Manuel, of b3ta fame.All stop watching it, so it streams more smoothly for me... More Hibbett updates, courtesy of his newsletter:ITEM! After months of hard work (honest!)...

Weird traininess thing going on

Got on the train at stupid o'clock as usual this morning to hear an announcement apologising for the late running of the service. Assumed the announcement was the mistake, but NO! Our train had been replaced by a late running earlier number that was ...

Obligatory world cup post

World cup, a bit of a tense game, we just about got there in the end. There are some bad people out there:An internet company which sold fake World Cup tickets to children may have made more than �60,000 in the scam.Nearly 400 schoolchildren from acr...

Weekend of sports

The Rugby was great, made for quite a long and tiring day, but a fabulous experience being there for an international. The Wales v France game put paid to either England or Ireland winning the 6 Nations so it wasn't quite such an important game. I'd ...

Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

PSP firmware 2.60 hacked

If you can ignore the hyperbole about "accomplishing the unthinkable", and the fact that you have to abort a game of GTA in order to load a game of Tetris, this PSP update about hacking is interesting. No really - it opens the door to getting unautho...

Blubberdog

Last weekend, I made a nice sandwich, we called it a blubberdog. It was a frenche campagne loaf, with peanut butter, tofu pieces, chilli, and some salad, and I thought that was pretty big. Of course it's not the biggest sandwich in the world but at ...

Slight repost

Reposting from popex to here, as it's quite newsy:Tickets appear to be on sale now for a couple of Darkness dates in February! They're playing Manchester MEN Arena on Saturday 18th and Brighton Centre on Tuesday 21st... these will be the first dates ...

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...

Folkestone without the views and the faded grandeur

Didn't see Folkestone on the TV last night, that's mostly a good thing I think. Kirstie Allsop and Phil Spencer presented a rundown of the best and worst towns to live in, based on some criteria or other. Folkestone didn't come in the top ten (there'...

Folkestone Property Prices

Trying out a new Folkestone property prices thing from www.ourproperty.co.uk - lets me have live updates in the sidebar over there, do you see? If you don't see a table of average prices over the past six months then it means I've got bored and remov...

Sleepy weekend

Watched football, a rarity for me, but Portsmouth vs Southampton was on BBC1... So I sat watching in the flat in Folkestone on my own, with constant updates via text and phone from the mates who were gathered in the Chav Monkey in Fareham, drunk befo...

Stop! Thief!

Just heard an attempted mugging and seen some sort of citizens arrest, on Farringdon Road right outside the office... don't know exactly what happened, but there were shouts of "STOP HIM!" outside, so we had a look and saw one fellow had another in a...

IPOD update

I thought we third generation IPOD types weren't going to get this?Ah, that's the updates for all the different types, my type (seems Apple call it 2.2) only gets: * Compatibility with iTunes 4.5 or later and the iTunes Music Store * Improved p...

Another day, another mouse

Found another mouse in our kitchen, alive again. This one looked a lot healthier, lessly wobbly and confused, but he still didn't make any effort to run away. Just look at this cute little feller. I put him out in the street and he scurried away, pro...

IPOD Agent

Downloaded this at the weekend, and have found it quite ace - it grabs RSS feeds from wherever you like (get my RSS here) and converts them and the pages they link to into IPOD notes... so this morning I was able to read Google news, this website, w...

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...

Never mind Belle-de-jour

Metro today has an interview with and picture of Major James Buffy-Maun, the London media set are going fictional character crazy at the moment. It would be wrong to suggest all the letters in Metro are made up, I believe the majority of people reall...

Jim Bob Book Tour

Ex Carter USM singer JIM BOB tours again in MAY playing his usual mix of newsolo material and old Carter classics.He will also be reading extracts from his fantastic new Carter autobiography"GOODNIGHT JIM BOB - On The Road With Carter The Unstoppabl...

BACK in BLACK

Well, back in beige really, back in the office, back to the grind, back to the heat... Thought www.popex.com was working since Friday, but not, all the cron jobs were turned off so the game's been frozen, though new people could still sign up...Resta...