2008-08-20UTC12:15:37Folkestone Fringe update, actually in time for the mailout this week!at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:on wednesday 20th and thursday 21st aether flyer play the leas liftaether flyer are still alive thanks to a scientific experiment gone bizarrely wrong, and exactly eighty years on, with an exhibit of their mu... 2008-08-12UTC03:16:41Tipping etiquetteHad the day off today a day working jolly hard at home, as our new fridge freezer was being delivered. I shouldn't joke about it, the working from home I mean, but it's a running routine between Clare and myself, she works at home once a week usually... 2008-07-31UTC11:39:06MJ Hibbett's Exciting Life In Rock is off to Edinburgh NOW!The Last Working Day Of The Month, Issue 42-------------------------------------------(MJ Hibbett & The Validators FACT, July 31st 2008)Hello all, and welcome to this FESTIVAL FUNTIME edition of the newsletter. Let's GO!GIGS TO COMEThis month I shall... 2008-07-15UTC02:46:24DESPERATE TO FIND FAMILY MEMBERS WITH SURNAME WEBBERPlease help !!!! I live in the states, but I amdesperately trying to locate Carole, Penny, or Jim Webber who used to reside on eastern road in Portsmouth. It's been a few years, and the phone numbers I have are no longer valid. It is rathr urgent t... 2008-07-02UTC01:17:57Zoo9 tickets!Just saving a space on the site for next year! Was the festival a success? I hope so, and I hope it returns. (UPDATE: it was not a success, no-one hopes it returns).Ticketmaster have tickets for this year's festival, hope this link is still valid for... <br /><a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/11383/Zoo9+tickets%21">Rated 3.57/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-05-29UTC08:22:56It's not cheating, it's perfectly validYou'll learn as you go through that most professional museums won't play full chords, just a sub-set of the strings....2008-02-29UTC10:53:03MJ Hibbett at Edinburgh FringeSpecifically for Nick really who didn't believe MJ Hibbett was playing Edinburgh:Me and Mr S Hewitt went up to Edinburgh last month to CASE OUT somevenues for the Fringe version of "My Exciting Life In ROCK" (stillthrusting forward at www.popartlondo... 2008-01-24UTC10:02:2250% off at Zizzi'sWorth a thought, we're off to Canterbury this weekend, though BAH not valid on Saturdays. From money saving expert:What’s the deal?The Telegraph is offering readers 50% off main courses at Zizzi Italian restaurants, when you buy a copy of the paper f... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10887/50%25+off+at+Zizzi%27s">Rated 3.57/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-12-28UTC10:48:23A festive update from HibbettHmm, this newsletter is called "The Last Working Day Of The Month" (from one of his songs), but he's practically a civil servant and finished work for the year a week ago at least, I'm still working...welcome to this SUPER CHRISTMASSY edition of our ... 2007-11-16UTC07:16:32Hmm, some code copied from the Wagamama website:Some code copied from www.wagamama.com, this is the voucher on their site for Canterbury: enjoy a free side dish to share on us(when you purchase 2 main meals)exclusively to wagamama online members valid at wagamama canterbury *voucher valid from 12/... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10680/Hmm%2C+some+code+copied+from+the+Wagamama+website%3A">Rated 7.77/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-05-31UTC09:59:29wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicelyEverything was good until I upgraded to the newer "Feisty Fawn" version of ubuntu, now we're back to the drawing board. I have no wifi and sometimes I have no keyboard or mouse either. If any of the following instructions (which I'm copying and pasti... 2007-04-27UTC08:05:55DudeYou working at the uni now? Very very long time no speak.A couple of things I found that IE really doesn't like, it's stricter with javascript, you can't use a variable without declaring it with var first, ievar i = 0;and not justi = 0;Also I had som... 2007-04-26UTC05:20:41Freakish IE7Internet Explorer 7 is blocking all access to the homepage of this site, even though it validates and everything. Bah. Everyone, please, use Firefox instead.... 2007-01-08UTC07:43:12Ch-ch-ch-ch-changesInteresting pop chart changes afoot, now downloads are eligible for the chart even if there is no corresponding CD single available. As this is a relatively new technology, changes are happening all the time I'm sure, but this is quite a meaty one. W... 2007-01-04UTC03:24:28I knew thatThat's in reference to my new bookmark The Passingham Family Blog: May 2006 Archives there is it? I saw our Edward Windebank (son of John Windebank) was born in 1847, so it sounded pretty good to me, but I can't tell if the thing they've transcribed ... 2006-10-18UTC10:38:26The Gay TrainNew 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!)... 2006-10-06UTC08:42:43RoundupInterview yesterday was good, but it's a small company and I'm still after more money than they can afford. It wis great to work on interesting projects, but I'm still holding out for a higher wage too right now, we have a mortgage and want a new hou... 2006-07-06UTC09:47:19Drought, in the fields, the fighting's just begun...How irresponsible are Amazon right now? They're advertising this 'domestic' high pressure washer (400 litres per hour) and this upright high pressure washer (530 litres per hour) on their home and garden homepage. I went there looking for things to a... 2006-06-26UTC05:41:59RE: Weasel coffeeOur coffee machine at work produces coffee that tastes like something (or someone) has enjoyed it before me - I don't think it's rare Vietnamese weasels though, it's more liekly to have been a fat, greasy man.Bloody password system, I tried to resgis... 2006-06-21UTC02:22:02Music things for the dayAll friends, MJ Hibbett and the Validators have a new album We Validate out about now, and The Fighting Cocks have gone and got themselves on nme.com, go there and listen to their new track "Coyote Ugly" and vote for them and that.Who needs Myspace a... 2006-05-05UTC02:20:54Another scorcherMaybe it's the nice weather, but every day this week I've not been able to sleep properly, not at night, and not on the train, bah.Plans for the weekend? I'm looking forward to a visit from the family, taking them to Escondido for lunch and then out ... 2006-04-25UTC01:03:26Firefox extension of the dayLoving this, instant html validation in firefox, an extension that lets you know if the page you're on has errors / warnings, see:What the extension should look like in situ...This page has none! That's how it should be and that's what that little W3... 2006-03-24UTC09:57:01No, *not* grey squirrel curry!Bad ITV, squirrels are friends, not food! Lord Inglewood, patron of North West Red Alert tries some the shock tactic of suggesting celebrities feed our furry friends to small children:What about celebrity chefs like Jamie Oliver promoting it for scho... 2006-02-23UTC11:52:50BUMS!Motley Crue are supporting Guns'n'Roses in Dublin this Summer, and we're at a wedding that day! G'n'R are playing Download Festival too, can't imagine the 'Crue playing that though. Will there be a normal London date? Will we go? Can't see it...Today... 2006-01-12UTC12:49:00RE: PSP firmware 2.60 hackedi've had something irritantingly similar happen over the last couple days - winscript.exe or something just uses 99% of my resources. so i just terminate it....sorry work IT admin people...ru not worried about invalidating your warranty by installing... 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... 2005-11-17UTC11:52:32Up to my arse in javascriptDoing some testing on here that I'll be using on popex and our company intranet, you'll be able to expand / shrink threads on the page. Hopefully by default any threads that were posted since you last visited will be open by default, and anything old... 2005-08-04UTC09:54:24ah, butfor the Google thing, how do you turn the link on the right to your text into a valid one? Some kind of sneaky mark-up in the brackets?<p>Is there a manual somewhere for this stuff or is it all cunning hackery?2005-07-11UTC09:48:19Sorry to leave such a gapBeen away for the weekend, not running and hiding in fear, we went to a fabulous wedding up in Oxford. Got The Oxford Tube there late on Friday as we were already booked onto it, and it was alright. Comfortable enough and only 15 quid for an open ret... 2005-06-14UTC08:30:00MJ Hibbett gigNot just <a href="http://www.mjhibbett.com">Mark</a>, but the full Validators Experience will be at the <a href="http://www.bullandgate.co.uk">The Bull & Gate</a> on Thursday 23rd June.