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Bumping into friends in London

KERRAZY, went to London last weekend and it was smashing, and we bumped into good chums Ralph and Linda and baby Astrid in GAP, what are the chances of that? OK, we had already arranged to meet up with them earlier that day at Pain Quotidien, which w...

RE: Nice Thai food no longer

have you even ate in the restaurant?!?! lol!

Its gorgeous!! It also hasnt changed hands either, there was just a bigger market for a Grill restaurant then there was for a thai restaurant so they changed it.
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Backstage at Elton John's new year's eve party...

This doesn't actually sound like a bad deal, New Year's Eve is always expensive and disappointing, how do you best tickets for Elton John, at the 'Dome, free drinks and an after show party too? All for less than 300 quid. Regular tickets are around t...
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Britney Spears is playing the O2!

Britney Spears tickets Folkestone, Britney Spears tickets, | Britney Spears tickets here on Ticketmaster, Britney Spears gig tickets, Britney Spears tickets London, Britney Spears tickets, | sold out Britney Spears tickets, Britney Spears concert tic...
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Cheers Darlin'

Much as I appreciate an extra 2.5% in my pocket, I am slightly afeared of how many places the value 17.5 will have been hard coded in any of the computer systems I may now have to reprogramme. Not to many I hope.This new VAT change will not change th...

Something to push my desperate ticket touting from the top of the blog

Terrible day of trains yesteray, have been training it in most of the week as my friend and neighbour who gives me a lift in has been off. Yesterday, morning train in CANCELLED! Started walking to look for a bus with a fellow commuter, and luckily we...

NME Big Gig 2009 / The Cure support acts

Line up according to various sources (including last.fm) is The Cure, Justice, Foals, and Crystal Castles so far. The supports don't seem up to the standard of last year at the moment.Shockwaves NME Awards Big Gig - Featuring The CureThe Cure gig tic...
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I fought the law, and the post office won

Damn, tried to beat the system this week, and failed. We went to see David Starkey last night, presenting his new book Henry: Virtuous Prince, part one of his biography. Very interesting, and makes a change to sitting in front of the telly, sort of. ...
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Non political news

Ah, the weekend, seems like so long ago now. Chocka at work this week, I am shut away in isolation for two weeks to work on a new project. Good to be without distractions of people coming up to my desk, and actually good to be so busy, it's making th...

A new dawn, a new hope, a new America, etc

A shift away from Conservatism, it's Obama what won it. The number of seats makes it look like a proper drubbing, Barack Obama winning two for each one that John McCain did, and it wasn't close like George W Bush's controversial win, but it looked li...

What a change!

The Woodville Halls seems to be undergoing a change for the better with a comedy club, high profile names, new seats, spanking new bar and on site cafe. I attended the comedy night which was set for an intimate atmosphere with the headline act Hatti...
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RE: Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmail

I have a similar problem and I got tired of fighting with it. Most of these cameras also will send a screen shot to an ftp server so I wrote a vbscript that polls the server and then sends an email using my workplace smtp server. Obviously, you need ...

Who is Russell Brand?

Lordy, could Russell Brand have done anything better to raise his profile than that phone call to Andrew Sachs? Mostly it's probably the Hate Mail on Sunday that's to blame. When the original Russell Brand show went out, no-one was listening. It's on...

MediaMonkey

When 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...

RE: sandy toksvig tickets

Hi Clare,

Please email your contact details to me roberta@creativefoundation.org.uk
I can't promise tickets at this stage but I can keep your name and contact you if anything changes.

Roberta

I might know of one ticket

I think I know someone who might not be able to go, stay tuned, or email me - fg@folkestonegerald.com - or maybe some other kind soul will read this and reply?Sandi Toksvig is also doing a date at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury, have you tried ...
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Mysterious young entrepreneur secures local support

Hmm got emailed this today and thought "I recognise that chap", he used to work at our place. Read the whole press release though, have you any idea what the business is? The accompanying pictures show our Dan stood next to a painted lady (literally,...

Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmail

Dug out my wireless camera, to see if it could be used as a web cam - it's good quality, with sound, but more for security monitoring than sitting in front of the screen and talking. Don't think it can, but it's good to have it up and running again a...

Rocket man lands in Dover today

Swiss jet pack flyer Yves Rossy had to postpone yesterday's attempted personal jet crossing of the channel, but with any luck he'll be landing in Dover today, so look out for him, keep your heads down! The Guardian has more, or (sorry I'm in a hurry)...

Nice weekend

Had a good weekend, reasonably uneventful but just NICE! Intended to start off with a quiz at The Grand, but they called Clare on the day to say it was cancelled, for a private function. Good job she had called to reserve a table and left her number,...

Susie Dent's coming to Folkestone

Susie Dent of Countdown's "Dictionary Corner" is coming to Folkestone as part of Folkestone Literary Festival 2008. At least I hope it's the same Susie Dent. We watch Countdown every day on 40D, so this will be nice.She has a regular publication call...

Apothecary cabinet went for �395

See it here, wonder if it will reappear on the listings again. Could have been a proper bargain, but that picture looked suss, like someone had revarnished it themselves.Speaking of REVARNISH, well kind of, I keep looking at words and thinking "that'...

The lights are on at Gate 28, but is anybody home?

Saturday is the rumoured day of reopening, has anyone any idea if anything is really happening? I went past there on Tuesday, lights were on so someone had been inside, but it wasn't clear if anything had changed. It didn't really look closed down at...

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No more news about Gate 28 reopening then?

I found nothing on Facebook, except a group saying "wouldn't it be good if it reopened"... it's still under offer, and still has not changed internally so I guess it could happen fairly quickly. If you have any more specific info please post it up he...

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Woo back online

Everything 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...

A week of technological disasters

My 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...

Sandbanks Restaurant, The Pavilion, Wear Bay Road - Sat 23rd Aug

I haven't written one of these reviews for a while and, to be honest, I wondered whether I ever would again. There are only so many times you can be bothered to write something about crap food served by people who don't give a damn about good food o...
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RE: channelwebscene

You can find out more here [/url]http://www.channelewbscene.co.uk

There does seem to be some sort of local connection here

I recognise some names on http://www.channelwebscene.co.uk, but the site itself is a bit short of detail, and so was that introductory post... care to come back and tell us any more?

channelwebscene

To receive your very own free copy of the action packed, fun filled bumper summer edition of channelwebscene just click on the link below. Enjoy yourself.http://www.channelwebscene.co.ukDon't forget to share us with your friends and please beware of ...

Barfly

Have decided, to use one of my entries for the Music Passport gig draw on a chance of seeing the Pet Shop Boys, and the other four on The Cure......

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Neighbourhood

Democrazy, bit worthy really, and not that thrilling, but nice to be somehwere trendy for a change...

Barfly

Before I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonderstuff early, doh... There was a ruckus and the police sent us all home.

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Kings College

Some special Radio One thing, got a nice freebie from friends I was about to start working with at Channelfly. Green Day picked some kids out of the audience and made them play a song.