2008-11-06UTC03:53:28wahey, thanks for letting me know it is now the Marlowe!I didn't know which venue the Odeon was. One of those nights you'll never forget? You forgot the date! Have you seen the photos that were taken that night? They're linked to from this site somewhere, some ace live shots...UPDATE: Here's that picture,... 2008-08-07UTC12:13:20Hot Leg Review - first Hot Leg Review EVER?Was as we expected, maybe hotter, certainly smellier than I would have liked. We spent the evening secretly wishing they would play some songs that we knew - not necessarily Darkness songs, but maybe some cheeky covers, tipping their hat to their ref... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11497/Hot+Leg+Review+-+first+Hot+Leg+Review+EVER%3F"><img alt="Hot Leg Review - first Hot Leg Review EVER?" src="http://www.atproud.net/images/upload/gallery.jpg" /></a>2008-03-11UTC06:19:47Caffe Uno - bit poorI previously promised to write up a recent visit to Caffe Uno:... the lunch not so. We did Caffe Uno, only because we'd like to have an informed opinion on everywhere, I really wasn't expecting much from it and it didn't disappoint.It was Mother's Da... <br /><a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com/m/11055/Caffe+Uno+-+bit+poor">Rated 6.71/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-02-25UTC02:21:01Quiet few daysHad a lovely weekend, disastrous in terms of house hunting, but great in every other ways. We didn't get to see any houses this weekend, there don't seem to be any on the market really that fit our requirements. We saw a couple of new houses online t... 2008-02-19UTC12:01:59RE: Thanks for that, think it's the Metronome you meanYip was the Metronome, forgot its name as it was a very short lived venue, pity had a nice atmosphere. But though intoxicated at the time I can definatley state the gig did happen.<br />It was just as Generation Terrorists was climbing the charts.2008-01-27UTC02:55:37RE: Some thoughts on the Skuba baryou forgot to mention that most of the people who visit this place are gays that stare at you as soon as you enter the door lol2008-01-08UTC02:17:19Google Maps API + ThickboxHad some trouble for a while at work with getting our google maps working with this thickbox, and I put it off for ages (telling people not to put a map in a lightbox), but today I got to the bottom of it. Don't load your map until the lightbox has l... 2007-12-12UTC11:56:32Speaking of coolVery cold and frosty today, nice to look at but slippy underfoot.Aware I've been neglecting this a bit recently, a shame because I've been doing more reading of my own older posts, and enjoying some of the details I'd forgotten. This is obviously all... 2007-11-21UTC09:02:56York (being the fourth part of my holiday)York is great, a lot like Canterbury, but seemingly with more pubs. Our hotel was the birth place of Guy Fawkes, and had sloping floors and four poster beds, proper historic. It practically butts up to the cathedral, not sure you can tell from my pho... 2007-11-14UTC07:39:22I am outbidI figured out how to get the furniture I am after couriered down from Preston with the help of a really cool website (that I have temporarily forgotten the name of) where you advertise what you want doing and all sorts of couriers and hauliers and ma... 2007-10-21UTC05:37:18What rugby?You forgot to bless the boot didn't you... A good game anyway, and we did well to get to the final. Perhaps an iffy decision on that disallowed try, but perhaps not.A good day yesterday too, just for a change we had lunch in Wagamama in Canterbury, b... 2007-10-03UTC02:22:30Folkestone bullet train trialA micro-writeup and picture here in the Evening SubStandard on the high speed rail link. Yeah baby, we'll soon be only 63 minutes away from the stinking metropolis.yourshepway.co.uk also has the story here, The site of the Hitachi High Speed Rail dep... 2007-09-13UTC05:51:55There was me worried about embarrassing myself...We have a couple of vacancies on the programming team at work, all the applicants have been given a PHP test to do, and some of the scores had been a bit weak, so the bosses wondered if the test was too hard, so they gave it to all the existing staff... 2007-08-21UTC06:30:25Back to the weekendI knew I'd written a few things this morning and forgotten to hit the send button, but didn't realise I'd turned the computer off as I ran out the door. I was about to blame the PC crashing, but it was all human error this time. So what did I have to... 2007-08-21UTC06:14:20Ooh lightning strike!No trains from Folkestone for the forseeable, because of a lighting strike over night, we do get all the action here don't we. They can't put on any replacement busses until after the school run as they're all in use. I'm getting a lift in today so I... 2007-08-13UTC08:00:42Louise Daniels, by email:I think the way the dolphin is being treated is absolutely disgraceful!!!! People have no consideration for the dolphin and are purely out for self gain to say “they swam with a dolphin!” I think it’s so selfish! The fate for solitary dolphins is alw... 2007-07-27UTC10:45:40MarvellousI hope it's a top one. Sultans of Ping eh? Not heard of them in a while, I am jealous! Saw The Fall at Ashton Court festival a couple of weeks ago.. they were nothing much to write home about though. Much shambling about stage, random turning up of g... 2007-07-20UTC03:46:51RE: Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)I'm glad you enjoyed Ed, I think it's a great place to live. I forgot you were into your real ales, you should have gone to The Guildford Arms - that's my Dad's favourite for real ale. Mary King's Close is very touristy, you should have done one of t... 2007-07-17UTC12:31:54Edinburgh (being the second part of our holiday)Edinburgh is nice. "Our kind of city" the wife wrote on her postcards, and I agree. We got a speedy train there from Carlisle into Edinburgh Haymarket, this was the side of the city we were staying on. We could have been a bit closer to the action bu... 2007-05-31UTC11:49:54The Lesson Of The SmithsI forgot to say, recently I bought a single, an EP in fact, and it's great, and you should get it too. I was reminded of this by this email update from MJ Hibbett: Our EXCITING new single, "The Lesson Of The Smiths/The Gay Train" came out last month,... 2007-05-14UTC12:14:43Keep away from the crispsAce weekend, which I will report on later. I ate quite a lot though, and combining this with driving into work every day last week, so not getting the tiny walk based exercise I usually get, I'm noticing my belly is bigger than it should be. To compo... 2007-03-18UTC06:49:31Good weekend, to be sureWork birthday outing on Friday night, so glad they'd picked Escondido, it was great. Then a couple of pints in Gate 28 and I could feel I was getting a bit too squiffy, so I called it a night early, didn't want to make a lasting impression on my firs... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10068/Good+weekend%2C+to+be+sure"><img alt="Good weekend, to be sure" src="http://static.flickr.com/56/129479951_df7576bf79_m.jpg" /></a> <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/10068/Good+weekend%2C+to+be+sure">Rated 8.7/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2007-02-28UTC01:23:48Luncheon fiascoBah, forgot my lunch today, all I remembered was the fruit component. There are no shops within walking distance, and though there are vending machines here at work, one stole my money and failed to deliver my crisps the other day, so not sure about ... 2007-02-20UTC02:13:47Nice picBah, I forgot to do the final challenge before I went away last week. Oh well. I once won a prize on Popex. Didn't acually get a physical one, but the mention in the email & the promise of one was more than enough!How is the rurual working working ? ... 2007-01-10UTC02:29:13Quiz funBroke with tradition yesteray at the Ship Inn quiz, it was a slightly weakened turnout, so we three were split into two teams. That was me on my own, and Clare and her mum on another team. Neither team did that badly I thought, though if you look at ... 2007-01-03UTC04:46:41Happy actual new yearOurs was very good, all went according to plan.Back at work today, seemingly for a one off so got a regular day ticket, that's thirty seven pounds fifty I won't see again. Happy new price rises South Eastern Trains! Plus I needed two goes on the tube... 2006-12-10UTC06:10:12Too muchDone far too much since my last posting to remember it all, but here's a go... Thursday was my last proper day at work, though they've asked me to stay on for another week, so that's christmas paid for. That night we were out for the popbitch christm... 2006-12-05UTC12:51:40Belated weekend roundupWeekend start sort of badly, and then sort of worse, and then actually got going really very well indeed. Train home hit some kind of delay, caused by some kind of delay on another train. That's as much detail as we've come to expect in the non expla... 2006-11-07UTC04:07:59RE: redirected where?Sorry - that 'here' was meant to be a link but I used html rather than bbcode and forgot to come back and edit it.It's very similar to the PB prob - I got redirected to your v old post about server being updated, and 'this post is four years old' or ... 2006-09-25UTC12:28:47RE: Cheers, is the new "CAPTCHA" thing working OK for you?Also forgot to say that there's a book that ties in with the series:<br /><br />http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0718149688/clarkeology-21#Dont-Have-Famous-Manic-Depression?ie=UTF8<br /><br />The Captcha thing is working fine for me, yes.