2008-10-26UTC09:00:52MediaMonkeyWhen I had hard drive problems recently and had to restore all my music library from a backup, I only had backups of the actual tracks and not all the associated itunes stuff. This means I lost most of my album artwork and things! Annoyingly itunes w... 2008-09-15UTC07:07:11AF&RM CAMRA says Gate 28 is reopening as a pizza restaurantNot sure if that info is more up to date than what I read on Facebook. This is from the September issue of Marsh Mash, the newsletter of Ashford, Folkestone and Romney Marsh branch of CAMRA: The bad news, The Fox Willesborough was firmly closed when ... <br /><a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/11574/AF%26RM+CAMRA+says+Gate+28+is+reopening+as+a+pizza+restaurant"><img alt="AF&amp;RM CAMRA says Gate 28 is reopening as a pizza restaurant" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2725960260_6eba34a516_m.jpg" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/11574/AF%26RM+CAMRA+says+Gate+28+is+reopening+as+a+pizza+restaurant">Rated 5.03/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-08-31UTC05:20:43Woo back onlineEverything working again, got the right version of XP Media Centre and I'm good to go. So far the computer is running faster and cleaner than it was before, but I'm sure that'll change...2008-08-29UTC11:15:19A week of technological disastersMy week of technological disasters goes from bad to worse. Lost the camera (it still has not turned up yet), and as previously mentioned the only hard drive on our PC is corrupted. I got the Windows XP disks and tried recovering it, but no joy, so or... 2008-08-28UTC12:09:27Quiet here...Computer still dead, so not updating much. Got the installation disks and tried to recover the boot record, but no joy. Recovery looked like it was working, so I don't know that the whole disk is dead, but I've bought a new hard drive anyway, will t... 2008-08-24UTC11:25:42Got a sword and a beard? Want to be in Justin Hawkins' new video?I wouldn't have thought people needed much encouragement to take a weapon along to a Justin Hawkins performance really. Not sure I can make this, but would you like to be in the ex The Darkness frontman's new video?I have been asked to supply big bea... 2008-08-22UTC07:17:59My computer is dead!Bah, turned it on today and I'm getting the blue screen of death with a unmountable_boot_volume error. Thought at first it was the backup drive or an IPOD plugged in, but no, it's the one and only hard drive that is knackered. Apparently I might be a... 2008-04-20UTC05:24:30Yesterday's house huntA 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... 2008-04-16UTC08:50:29RE: wg111 (wifi) + ubuntu (linux) still not playing nicelyHi PaulI came across this site as I was searching how to make my new WG111v3 usb adaptor work under mandriva 2008 (I'll try it on my ubuntu machine later) - that has ndiswrapper installed and, like yours, didn't work. Your posting gave me the clue as... 2008-04-01UTC06:45:58I met him, so he's my friendSee.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... ... 2007-11-20UTC08:44:41A couple of modern affordable Harry Clarke booksFirstly Queens, I have a copy of this book, and it's nice but slim, it's a collection of colour plates of a series of nine windows that are in private hands, I think I paid twenty four pounds for mine, happy bidding... Secondly, a book that we got ne... 2007-09-28UTC12:57:29Programming is a poetry for our timeA fairly new song up on MJ Hibbett's youtube channel, not actually a new song, nor actually even new to youtube as it's been up there for a few days already, but hey I've not seen it and you probably haven't either, so let's pretend it's all new and ... 2007-08-31UTC05:31:49Harry Clarke talk at Ballyhaunis FriarySlightly short notice, there's an exhibition going on right now at Ballyhaunis Friary in County Mayo, and there's a talk tomorrow. This info from www.heritageweek.ie:Photographic Exhibition of Harry Clarke Stained Glass Windows28/08/2007 - 02/09/2007... 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... 2007-05-16UTC07:58:45Technology, and how it cancels itself outBah, got my wireless camera working in the house at last, for the first time since we went over to BT HomeHub and all the settings changed, and what happens the very same day? The IPOD stopped working. I suspect Apple monitor the blog and heard about... 2007-02-12UTC07:23:44Macs are good for work tooThey're good if you're quite techie, or if you're not at all techie, it's only if you're somewhere inbetween and only understand brand name windows products like excel say, that you might struggle.2007-01-30UTC05:29:27osxprobably not going dual boot it, I don't think I need windows for anything on here.<br />Don't know what version it is, it's new, do you mean what size is it? Looks like the 17'', I'll have to get my tape measure out...2007-01-18UTC04:21:41Blowin' in the windCopy and paste from a chum who made it into London today. I did not, high winds and other adverse weather conditions cancelled all our trains.we're on the 10th floor and the wind up here is nuts! the noise is incredible. I saw several people knocked ... 2006-12-04UTC11:04:23Fareham: NOT the worst place in the country to liveFrom Portsmouth today, in reopnse to a recent survey...Leader forces climbdown by newspapersTWO national newspapers have been forced into a climbdown by a council over stories about a survey that claimed it was the worst place in the country to buy a... 2006-10-05UTC07:51:58Harry Clarke at the V&AWell spotted Mum and Dad, there is a Harry Clarke at the Victoria and Albert museum:Harry Clarke was one of the great masters of 20th-century stained glass. He trained in his father's studio and at the Metropolitan Art School in Dublin, which gave hi... 2006-10-01UTC08:25:50Another Harry Clarke auctionHans Anderson's Fairy Tales, with colour plates intact. Low price, but high postage. Still getting plenty of bids though, will we ever get lucky with a copy of this?Published by G. Harrap & Company Ltd, Portsmouth, 1931 HB Cloth. Harry Clarke (illust... 2006-06-19UTC10:16:22Baby baby, where did our weekend go?Aciton packed weekend, yet again quite literally TWO daytime trips out of the house that were not just to the shop or the pub, what is going on? We had such a full weekend that I had just about no time for larking about on the computer or even sittin... 2006-06-07UTC08:47:21That sounds pretty slySo no need for two cards (or more) like most "media center" PC's have then for recording two at once? You're just recording all of the input? What operating system are you using with that? I will be starting with Windows Media Center on the new compu... 2006-05-05UTC02:58:43RE: I think it's not cheapHaving seen OSX in action, it sure is a pretty lil thang, but I would be tempted to went for an Intel version of a Mac so I could sneak in a Windows dual boot for when I got homesick.2006-04-26UTC02:22:14RE: That is strange, it ought to be the same resultswell there's a pocket version of quicken, but the prob with this is that the manufacturers of quicken have stopped doing stuff for the UK - if i buy a US copy will i be stuck with DOLLARS?? alternatively, there are a number of pocketpc progs which wi... 2006-02-22UTC01:12:23What was I going to say?Was busy when I came in this morning so I have forgotten the things I had lined up for today's "entry". Perhaps it was a gripe about the quality of signal from our new sky freesat box - it was far worse than the signal we're getting via the inbuilt f... 2006-02-09UTC09:54:34The new telly has not yet arrivedThis is where it's going though, I'll be keeping an eye all day...http://www.clarkeology.com/blog/upload/Capture7.jpg security camera view of our loungeSet it up in a bit of a hurry, just threw the camera into the corner, and it needs a lot of focuss... 2006-01-10UTC01:42:24RE: Squirrels and webcamslooks like your windows need cleaning !2006-01-10UTC12:49:13PSP updateI updated Clare's PSP yesterday, it's now got a new version of it's little operating system, which you can download direct from Sony. As well as some security issues and the ability to play Windows Media files now, it's got an RSS reader too. I hope ... 2006-01-04UTC02:49:07RE: Things I have yet to achievejust thought i'd wish you a happy new year. have to concur on the ipaq - took me a while to get mine sorted as windows pocket pc wifi interface is a pile of crud.so, are PSP's really as good as everyone's been making out? and question of the day is.....