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Someone else struggling with their Habitat Radius wardrobe doors

Wonder if the person selling this wardrobe was planning to sell the wardrobe anyway, or if the doors not shutting properly has driven them mad and made them want rid? That's how I read it:This wardrobe was bought from Habitat around 3 years ago. It c...

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...

New shop in town

There's a new Camden style retro shop opened in Folkestone. Today was the first day of opening, just low key at the moment, they're going to launch properly in a couple of weeks, I'm sure they'll invite me along for the champagne reception.Unfortunat...

Google mapping cars in Folkestone?

Tesselate says google mapping cars (that they're using to do the street view on google maps) are "about", not sure if that means Folkestone. Just wondered if she was a Google employee, as we have the google mapping cars about now, and I guess it woul...

PHP 4 to 5 migration

Bit of an all encompassing thing this, I use PHP for work and for home, I've pretty much abandoned perl since I joined Holiday Extras a year and a half ago. PHP4, widely used everywhere, (including on this blog) is about to die. It's been on it's way...

Hibbett's Edinburgh festival show confirmed for The Medina

Meanwhile the PLANS for "My Exciting Life In ROCK", our Edinburgh Fringe Show, are moving along. I think I've pretty much worked out which songs and which stories will be featured, as well as how it's all going to hang together. I've not tried it out...

Great quiz at Chambers this bank holiday weekend

Shame I didn't know about it in advance so I could big it up here... no we didn't win, in fact we didn't even get to the pub in time to join in properly, but we sat and drank and played along anyway, very enjoyable!

Rated 8.7/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Canterbury, but not house hunting

Not a bad weekend. Started on a bum note, with a death, my sister's ma-in-law passed away unexpectedly on Friday, so thoughts with all the families involved obviously. Saturday we stayed local, didn't go to Canterbury as Clare was having lunch with h...

They properly out did you

Now, if my GCSE Double Award Science serves me right, Richter's very handy scale is logarithmic. Which means that the quake in Lincolnshire was TEN TIMES the magnitude of the one you had. Just think how much bigger those cracks could have been....

Weekend! Curry! Spazzy twitches! Everything!

Great weekend, bailed out of work slightly early and got the train to Mum and Dad's, for a nice long relaxing weekend. As previously mentioned, Clare was in London drinking and dancing with her friends, and definitely not lighting fires, and I was he...

Rated 6.88/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Guessing it's not all redundancies at the BBC

Does this sound like the BBC to you? It might not be I guess. I got this job ad seven times today, once recruitment companies get your details they WILL NOT EVER unsubscribe you. I have to report each one as spam now, it's for their own good...Hope y...

Two completely different properties this week

Saw two houses yesterday in Canterbury, wildly different, and they highlight the fact that we want somewhere exactly in between, which is something that does not exist, at least within our budget...First house was in Vernon Place, and though we're id...
Rated 5.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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Open Source Technology

Paul;Even though you are not actively in the market for a new position, your site prompted me to contact you nonetheless. I have been retained by a fortune 500 firm in NYC to identify �open source talent�I am currently searching for 4 Sr Perl develo...

Tracey Emin will be scattering childrens clothes around our town

Read more about the Folkestone triennial, sounds interesting... Always good to get a mention in the press, even if they do highlight how run down Folkestone has been recently. Also, who is the ex Iron Maidener who lives in the town? Aha, wikipedia sa...

Rated 4.73/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Boom shake the room!

Well I suspect you've all been frantically refreshing wondering when I'd report from this morning's earthquake! Amazingly it was three and a half hours ago now, the power was off until just recently so there wasn't a lot I could do, no internets, and...

malicequest

so who won? where was the thing in the end? i was convinced it was iceland - in retrospect, i wished that i'd worked out the co-ordinates properly so i could've got the exact place

The wrong kind of trees on the line

What a great day to start commuting again. Back on the five past midnight train into work this morning (ok, five past seven), and in my semi conscious repose I became more or less aware that the train was at a standstill, somewhere in mid kent. The t...

Chik chik chik and Dirty Pretty Things

gigsta.co.uk has it that !!! are playing Folkestone three times over the next week, did they err? It is a the band name that properly ballses up computer type things. They're not at the LCH on Friday 15th, that's for sure, because Dirty Pretty Things...

Bus Pirates!

Pirates, on a bus, a new comedy series. Not watched it properly yet as I have no sound here, but it comes recommended. ARRR!VERY NICE night in London last night, great to see chums Ralph and Linda's very swanky pad, and a proper luxury to have a five...

I wrote this

I swear I made this up, just a coincidence they did it later. And actually funny. Good to see it online!I think Stuart Lee and Richard Herring are great, so I'll let it go, just this once.Woo, nearly finished rewriting this board / blog system in pro...

Flickr, now with built in geocoding

Organize your flickr pics here, see, now you can map them direct from Organizr. Shame it's Yahoo maps (Yahoo own Flickr, they don't have detailed coverage of the UK.Back to my PHP - I've just rewritten my AJAX popup menu thing so the backend is now s...

RE: The Sandgate Hotel,

Hi thereWell as you probably know the Sandgate Hotel closed down for a refit (coincidentally not long after the Ramsay Kitchen Nightmare programme). So was interested to go there when it reopened. It now looks much better inside - they've knocked thr...

Back into the routine

Properly tired today, like a zombie, but I did sleep well last night, and was tired when I got up, and did sleep again on the train, so everything's back to normal now...Some links for the day, from chums:Hot Fuzz a new Simon Pegg / Nick Frost thing ...

Another scorcher

Maybe 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 ...

Don't take your love to town

Why is this ruby script getting links to it? Is it all people like me who can't believe it's getting links to it and so they're linking to it? Am I missing something here? Is it people who are too young to have heard of shell scripts and the like? I ...

No pea soup for breakfast today

We've had crazy fog each day this week in Folkestone, but not today, it was lovely back and home and also nice here in London.Didn't sleep on the train in today, I suspect it's because the wife wasn't there beside me, she's taken the luxury of a day ...

Ride, Verve, Mercury Rev, and The Manics in Folkestone

Hmm, bit more gig history confusion... This Ride gigography says Ride played Folkestone on the 21st March, 1992. Now I look into that properly, it says support came from Mercury Rev (and not Verve, which I got from somewhere). This full Ride gigograp...

Rated 0.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

All my pictures at once

See all my pictures at once on flickr leech, or all anyone's pictures - now can you tell me how to sort out all those pictures that I've clearly uploaded twice. Straight off I can see all the Andy and Hazel in the curry house is duplicated, but can I...

Too hungover to weblog yesterday

Feeling fresher today just about, let me get my gripe of the day out of the way first though. Today's train had the most annoying conductor on it, he just LOVED the sound of his own voice and I think he thought he was Bruce Forsyth, he announced ever...