2008-10-15UTC01:03:17Great weekend (belated weeekend-o-blog)Great as in really good and great as in just enormous, fitted quite a lot in. Clare was out in London Friday night, and had got a hotel so I was planning to meet her later and we'd stay over so as to have a nice Saturday there too. Work is busy as ev... 2008-10-09UTC03:57:20Feeling the credit crunch in Folkestone? KCC apparently areLittle old Kent county Council got a mention on this morning's Guardian Daily Podcast. Apparently Kent County Council had rather a lot of (our) money invested in an Icelandic bank that just went bust :-(<br /><br />Sources etc when I get home.2008-08-20UTC06:19:52It's Fareham, it's a squirrel, it must be the Daily MailA squirrel carrying a coconut.UPDATE: The Sun has it too. I don't read either of these papers, but The Guardian news podcast seems to have missed it...... 2008-08-01UTC02:00:34PHREADZ podcastWell sort of. Some of the content from Kosso's phreadz.com is also available in MP4 format, which is kind of handy for ipod video. So I'm hoping this feed will populate my ipod with the fascinating conversations these guys are having. Only some of th... 2008-07-21UTC12:02:50Yes you mustAND you must report back here... Are you going to anything else of the festival, that you have planned yet? I thought you said before that you might avoid most of it. Have you thought about renting your place out for the week? I was listening to one ... 2008-07-11UTC06:23:23Why's this Habitat Radius furniture always so far away?Five drawer tallboy, starting at fifty quid, but it's in Cheshire. Will most likely end up waiting until we move and then buying another one of these new. It's going to be well handy having tall and slim furniture when we move from the big wide flat ... 2008-06-14UTC06:59:20Psst, wanna buy a Tracey Emin?A GREAT day around Folkestone today, it was the start of the Triennial and there was tonnes to see. Number one activity was hunting down the Tracey Emin's before they got stolen. She'd cast several bronze sculptures of abandoned baby clothes that she... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11326/Psst%2C+wanna+buy+a+Tracey+Emin%3F">Rated 4.78/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-06-13UTC06:23:12Today I invented a brilliant new thing, called "podcasts"Was surfing for news of Kid Rock yesterday, as a friend has been working with him and I was wondering if she'd show up in any paparazzi shots of him stumbling out of nightclubs or anything. No joy there, but he was interviewed by the Guardian yesterd... 2008-05-09UTC06:03:51Man I'm hating Lost todayListening to Jay and Jack's Lost podcast, why do I keep doing this to myself? They're just so ALIEN, they're discussing morse code, as featured in a recent episode, and they're having a serious discussion as to whether it's pronounced "morris code" o... 2008-03-14UTC07:19:58Ricky Gervais XFM radio show MP3sDo you have any? Been listening to lots of Ricky Gervais recently, old radio shows from XFM, and they're great (if repetitive). Now we want more, and we want earlier. The oldest show we have is from November 10th 2001, which I think was an officially... <br /><a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/11065/Ricky+Gervais+XFM+radio+show+MP3s">Rated 3.57/10</a> on <a href="http://www.folkestonegerald.com">Folkestone Gerald</a>2008-03-11UTC09:03:43Great book, slight repostI've got this book and it's great, a full history of all the drinking establishments in Folkestone and surrounding villages. And here's a rare copy on ebay, starting bid 99p.Splendid weather today, think the storms have moved North, it's bright and c... 2008-03-03UTC08:56:29Canterbury, but not house huntingNot 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... 2008-01-15UTC09:12:04Apple AirbookThere's a new ultra portable mac to be announced todday I think, some speculation here on Wired, see how everyone has to comment without reading the article? (Cue replies here, missing the point of this post, if there was a point, and there were any ... 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... 2007-09-25UTC08:11:28Ricky GervaisRicky's on TV tonight, the trailer didn't look very funny at all though :-( here is an updated from www.rickygervais.comHelloIt's the last week of Ricky's 'FAME' tour and there are some newly releasedproduction seats available for today (Monday ) and... 2007-09-07UTC06:09:14Ooh I totally goosyncedread everyone elses paranoid complaints here, in an Engadget story on it from last year, when it was new and things. Seems good so far, I've had this IPAQ for three or four years without using the calendar, now I'm all synced up with the calendar I r... 2007-09-03UTC03:10:57Oh yes, I just noticed an enormous traffic spikeI must have submit my rss to podcast.com a while ago when I posted some mp3's... you want to be filtering out the feeds you use, looking to see if they really do have enclosures of the right type.Or maybe I should look at my feed, I think I probably ... 2007-09-03UTC02:50:18RE: Ouch!ha! Oddly I saw this post appear in the latest podcasts bit on the front of podcast.com <br /><br />pesky! :) <br /><br />2007-03-08UTC03:45:51How I am the best at IPOD / genres / tagging / etc...A valued chum just posed these questions by email, and it fired me off in a huge response, so I thought I'd whack it up here too...1. When you have a CD what are you using to rip the CD, what bitrate and what codec are you using?2. what is the minimu... 2007-01-08UTC07:43:12Ch-ch-ch-ch-changesInteresting pop chart changes afoot, now downloads are eligible for the chart even if there is no corresponding CD single available. As this is a relatively new technology, changes are happening all the time I'm sure, but this is quite a meaty one. W... 2006-12-13UTC02:00:30Ripper indeedBeen plotting some writings regarding the Ipswich prostitute murders, getting a bit annoyed at the press calling this guy "the ripper". He's not ripped so much as a sheet of toilet paper as far as we know, he's been suffocating in Suffolk, can no-one... 2006-12-04UTC11:25:38Radio dramaHere's that radio drama I mentioned last week, it's a 7meg download. It's rubbish, but if you're subscribed to here via the medium of RSS, you might get it downloaded automatically podcast stylee.I'm still having trouble getting this working on vario... 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... 2006-11-01UTC04:58:12Return of the IPAQSince bringing my IPAQ back to life, I've been trying to load it up with content, looking for podcast type software to populate it with free contentdel.icio.us avi feed, I wonder has someone already hacked together a youtube feed with attachments? Lo... 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 ... 2005-12-21UTC09:57:35ZeitgeistGood toss del.icio.us is back up again today, this leads me to Google's zeitgeist report for 2005... this is some charts and graphs (I love charts and graphs) of on what people were searching for (and finding) this year. Interesting to see that podca... 2005-12-01UTC09:41:06Ricky Gervais PodcastThe Ricky Gervais Show on Guardian Unlimited - with all new material - will be available every Monday. Smart!According to Ricky, "I want to do a radio show where I can say I want, when I want for as long as I want and that's free for anybody who can ... 2005-11-12UTC07:50:03ABC.com: ABC's Official 'Lost' podcast2005-11-11UTC01:10:03It's all go todayIt's all go today, XFM Winter Wonderland tickets sold out before I managed to send out a spam about them, so now doing a bit of marketing of The Eagles Farewell Tour. I'd like to see them, but it's 75 quid or so for tix... did this suddenly turn into... 2005-11-01UTC10:15:30Slight repostReposting from popex to here, as it's quite newsy:Tickets appear to be on sale now for a couple of Darkness dates in February! They're playing Manchester MEN Arena on Saturday 18th and Brighton Centre on Tuesday 21st... these will be the first dates ...