2008-12-12UTC02:33:47Thanks, advice from another friend at work here is NO tooIt seems to be just one way communication, sound is streamed from the PC to the airport express, and then I can plug speakers in to that. I can't send anything back the other way to skip a track or anything. This would be slightly worse than the curr... 2008-09-05UTC01:56:50David Devant top tenJust browsing last.fm to see if anyone's mentioned the David Devant gig at the 100 Club (and they haven't), but I see this top ten of their tracks most listened, by users of last.fm. Who have installed the software, that monitors what you're listenin... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11558/David+Devant+top+ten">Rated 4.04/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>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... 2008-08-22UTC07:17:59My 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... 2008-06-18UTC07:53:38Did 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... 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 ... 2007-01-18UTC04:21:41Blowin' 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 ... 2006-12-04UTC04:41:53If only we'd known that iPods would unite and overthrow the very humans they entertainedFrom The Simpsons, via Wired:A citizen of the future laments: If only we'd known that iPods would unite and overthrow the very humans they entertained... HEY! My IPOD has come back to life now, I think, I've managed to restore it and get it talking t... 2006-11-30UTC10:51:43Thursday morning roundupJust caught the end of something on BBC Breakfast, advice on blogging and work, or why not to blog about work, something like that. A few sites / posts were held up as bad examples, I wasn't one of them, it was all fairly basic stuff:* Don't be posti... 2006-08-19UTC09:35:25RE: I am hereWe have my bro-in-law visiting from The Americas. I don't think we'll be going to much contemporary ballet, I'm hoping to fit in as much pub time as possible.It's cool that you and your mum are getting tattoos together.Woo, got my computer in the lou... 2006-07-12UTC11:32:42Not much to say for a few daysBeen watching quite a lot of Due South (we forgot to update our Amazon list) and doing some work on my Folkestone maps when I've had a few minutes. Now weather.I've sort of been enjoying the weather. Monday daytime I thought was fabulous, around lunc... 2006-05-09UTC11:20:55Day 4, IPOD battery still behavingSo, my IPOD opening skills are up to scratch, my web development skills are lacking today. I'm using a new firefox extension that alerts you to memory leak errors in javascript... I have tonnes! I'm going to have to disable it again, as there's no wa... 2006-03-30UTC01:43:00OK I think it's cool nowIt wasn't really that exciting, our office was burgled. When I got in the place was crawling with cops, and then soon after the full CSI team arrived dusting for fingerprints and things. Seems we were done over while there were still people in the bu... 2006-03-09UTC04:22:04Latest popex ticket salesAffiliate sales have perked up a bit this month, here are the top twenty sellers through popex this month:Foo Fighters (beating second place by 5:1)Red Hot Chili PeppersThe Mighty Boosh (the first of the Folkestone connection, one I plugged a lot on ... 2006-03-07UTC12:46:03stellstarr* live tonightShould have plugged this earlier, they're at Kings College tonight.Also, we seem to have run out of Amazon disks, we can't think of what else to watch. So, recommendations please, we liked The West Wing and Buffy and The Mighty Boosh, what should we ... 2006-02-21UTC10:10:41Working from homeI think this is the fifth attempt to get some decent reception and extra channels at home, with a day spent out of work for someone each time. It's only the second attempt from the current aerial and satelleite services supplier, and I have every con... 2006-01-03UTC02:13:31Fitter, happier, more productiveI'm not falling into the trap of making resolutions, but I am going to try and get a few more things sorted. Had a fairly productive Christmas, so why not continue in this vein? Oh yes, spurred on by my new toilet seat, here's what I'm achieving...We... 2005-02-11UTC10:19:58IPOD crunch timeGot a step further with the IPOD that won't talk to the computer last night, but I fear it was a step to far... reinstalled the software on the disc that came with the player, and it's gone and formatted the flatmate's 'pod... I AM SO SORRY MAN!Still... 2004-08-06UTC06:39:30A wireless how-toThe box is a bit ripped... If there was owt wrong with it they would take it back (maybe I should give it a whack..?) but they say if there's nothing up with it and the shrinkwrap is off, then no go. It was my mistake, so fair enough.Yes, like you I ... 2004-06-15UTC01:04:40So iTunes Europe launched todayThat's nice, www.apple.com/itunes/ isn't responding right now, how odd. Still pleased with the bits I installed yesterday, GoogleGet is synching fine when the computer's turned on and the IPOD's plugged in... Clare tends to check for tube delays and ... 2004-04-28UTC02:49:23it'll fuck them up, or they'll fuck you up?My audiophile mate here at work says he "burned his in" to get the best out of them, left them playing for hours, gradually increasing the volume.It's the deep in-ear-ness of them that I like the look of. If I could get something that plugged direct ... 2001-11-02UTC04:40:26What are you all doing on Tuesday and Wednesday?I'm pulling the plug on the popEx server on Tuesday! The Beast is moving across country to another hosting centre on Tuesday, and it's got to change IP address and EVERYTHING... It should be plugged back in and powered up within a couple of hours, bu... 2001-02-07UTC06:11:02The Hardware EPGot The Cooper Temple Clause's debut EP at last... Opening track "The Devil Walks In The Sand" is five minutes Led Zeppelin, but it's not just heads down rock, there are LAYERS to it..."Solitude" is an effects laden instrumental track, but with what ... 2008-12-11UTC08:42:16South Parade PierPower broke down during their set. They're not really acoustic unplugged types, and they stormed off.