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This is about how good I am on the guitar now

I can't decide if this is brilliant, or if he's doing all the complex stuff with his vocals. Entertaining anyway, if a bit long. Enough about the song, this performance is good too:(Hmm not sure I can embed, here it is).I first saw him doing Teardrop...

Who will buy my Stereophonics tickets

Slight repost from Folkestone Gerald and my blog / forum there:I can't decide whether or not to go to Stereophonics next Tuesday, we have messed up a bit in arranging a lie in the following morning so it's not really convenient now. Do you want my s...

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Very cheap VIP tickets for Zoo Thousand!

Look here cheap vip tickets for zoo thousand / zoo8 / z008 / whatever, less than cost price, a lot less in fact! You could get a bargain here...Speaking of which, I can't decide whether or not to go to Stereophonics next Tuesday, we have messed up a ...
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ouch

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 ...

Only light rain at Glastonbury

Some rain overnight and a little more on the way at the festival, it says here in the Times, it's hardly news at all really is it. Watched Glastonbury the movie on TV last night, partly it made me really wish I was there, but when I analysed it I fou...

No lunch for me thanks

Blee, it's our "rumble in the jungle" fun day at work and they've just completed their bushtucker trial type thing. Brains, tongue, testicles, scorpions, all sorts. Couldn't really get close enough to take any pictures or shoot any video but I will c...

Keep them safe

I am just waiting to grow a bit round the waist and for my legs to shrink with old age and then I'll steal them off you!Vintage Levis are worth good money, if only you'd not worn them for decorating! Can't find any on ebay to prove a point but I'm su...

RE: Woo we won a "Seven For All Mankind" auction at last!

Is that why there is always a strip of jean auctions down the right side of your site? For some reason those pictures of people's used jeans disturb me - and I can't work out why.

Did you see Folkestone on TV last night?

The town looked nice on The Culture Show, I'm glad. That's why I was looking up The Culture Show yesterday when I mentioned the Ricky Gervais stuff, to find out when this feature was on, must have got distracted before I found it or I'd have plugge...

Too old to rock

have my new starter at work, our industrial placement from Canterbury University for the year. He seems a nice guy, but in making conversation I asked him what he was listening to... Simply Red! Phil Collins! Robbie Williams! This guy is not even twe...

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...

Where'd the weekend go?

In fact where did the week go since I last had something to write about? Had plenty going on, I put it down to trying to learn the guitar, and the tips of my fingers are in far too much pain to type, so sorry if I go a bit slowly.If anyone has any go...

I played at Mick's Flamenco in June July or august 1967 !!

An email from Brian:I played at Mick's Flamenco in June July or august 1967 !!Does anyone know of any posters/handbills/archive recordsThe band was called the Honey Band and we did a lot of Eddie Floyd / Bobby Bland / Jackie Wilson / Wilson Pickett ...

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Rents SOARING!

Saw a feature on BBC Breakfast this morning about how that blame-for-everything credit crunch is leading to a rise in rental values - people who can't afford to buy have to rent, and there's still a limited number of properties available, so rents wi...

Women's fashion, who understands it eh?

Clare says they are the best jeans she's ever had, they fit well and they keep their shape throughout countless washes. I think all of my jeans do that, and I can't remember the last time I bought a pair anyway. I will stick to my new-looking-boot-fa...

Sellindge Music Festival!

Sellindge Music Festival is happening on 7th & 8th June 2008 at Hope Farm, Gibbons Brook, Nr Ashford, Kent, England, TN25 6HH. See you there!�40 for the weekend, so cheaper than most festivals, and it ought to have a proper indie vibe, but the lineup...

Yesterday's house hunt

A trip to Canterbury yesterday, an early start, four houses to see. First one was a bit further out than we first thought, up Whitstable Road, though not an insurmountable distance to Canterbury West. The house is at the end of a cul-de-sac, so you h...

RE: wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicely

Cheers, I am all up and running now too. Wifi is too slow to use the box as a backup device as I intended, and ubuntu hangs when I'm transferring large volumes of data, a problem I've seen other people have when googling too... ah well, it was free h...

House hunt

Two houses today in Canterbury, different parts of town, but with things in common. For starters, both too expensive really at 250k each. If the market really is tumbling we might be able to make a cheeky offer on just about anything we see now thoug...

Time Travel

came across this site by accident and started reading stuff,then looked at your little film of the snow.I was in Folkestone the same day, as Andy (my husband) and I often visit Folkestone and combine a bit of shopping and being by the sea(one of our ...

Google / Yahoo MERGER!

Well, no actually, not at all but Google are serving ads on some of Yahoo's pages. What about Yahoo serving ads in Google's "slots" (like the ones on this page)? I want more different ads served up here, so more people are likely to click on them and...

I met him, so he's my friend

See.Just emailed you, glad you are around:I have some kind of mounted network drive available on my ubuntu machine that 'is' my windows box. I can open a window to it, see the files in it etc, but I don't know how to find it from the command line... ...

Happy April Fool's

Just seen a brilliant feature on BBC Breakfast on a newly discovered type of penguin, that can fly. Can't find it on their website, but they had video on the TV and they've apparenly roped in David Attenborough, I hope they put the footage online lat...

I fell asleep during it

It looked nice enough, but was a bit gentle for my energetic tastes. Why can't they just repeat Lovejoy?

Mighty Easter weekender, with The Cure

Hope you've all had as good an extended weekend as I have. As is usual when I've been off for a few days and not written up just went on immediately, I'm starting to forget it all. We're up now, on the last day of our five day break and I have a few ...

Still Cure tickets left

Less than a week to go until our gig of the year The Cure at Wembley on Thursday. Got an automated call from Ticketmaster telling me the stage times; 65daysofstatic are on at 7pm, and the Cure at 8pm, so that gives them plenty of time to play the thr...

Good weekend, rubbish episode of Lost

Nice weekend, Emma was visiting, we sat about quite a lot, and went to Chambers (via a very brief look in at The Bank Bar) on the Saturday night. Did not eat out all weekend (cue "but if you don't owt you'll die!"), can't remember the last time I had...

RE: Should everything be a black box though? And WHY can't you fix my IPAQ?

"but if you had a VW Beetle or a Landrover or something you could learn to fix it yourself." I must be missing something
is that so!
POPS

Should everything be a black box though? And WHY can't you fix my IPAQ?

It's just the battery I think, it won't keep a charge now...OK not everyone is building a clock out of voltmeters but the people who are trying to do this sort of thing have got to feel happy about it, I know I would if I could get more stuff for fre...

Ever 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...

Barfly

and Alfie, Barfly sessions daytime thing recorded for TV. Can't remember if I stayed for Idlewild in the evening....

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David Devant

Somewhere, can't remember where this gig was but I mentioned it on popex...

Dingwalls

Camden Crawl type thing, can't remember where we went or who we saw right now.
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The Wedgewood Rooms

Can't remember what, but I know I was at something at the Wedge this night, while Placebo were at the Joiners. Maybe it was a caberet.
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Avon Park Raceway

VW festival. I'm sure there were bands, can't remember which ones though. Was it Beetle Bash or Bug Jam that had The Prodigy, with Keith Flint rolling across the crowd in a big hamster ball?

Portsmouth Guildhall

I saw them once more on this tour, in Reading uni / poly I think, can't find the date though...

The Marquee

Found the ticket now! I went to the gig on my own, then got the last train up to Rugby, where I was staying for college. Can't find details anywhere online. Much stage diving, one of my favourite gig.s