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Black Monday

Stop selling everyone, and you the news, stop telling people how bad it is, it's just making the ill informed small investors like me worry more, and sell, and exacerbate the problem. The market is only about as low as it was in mid August right now,...

My gigography

Just done some fiddling about on the site, rearranged the gigography a tiny bit. Now, first time you go there the big boring explanation of what it's all about should still appear at the top of the page. BUT, here's the clever bit, if you then click ...

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job

No posts for a few days, I had something to say but wanted to wait until I got an official confirmation and things. Yes I'm back in the land of the permanently employed, just arranged some final details today and I start at Holiday Extras on Monday! ...

Arse

Frankly Mr Crabtree, Arse. Just as I get good at Popex too, only took me 5 years ;) When you said you had job news I was more hoping of the revamp/launch kind. I'm just an optimistic fool !You want a job at Bristol Uni ? I can get you a bunch of prog...

Ticket to Rye

we are going to Rye on Saturday, for an afternoon / evening, a look round, drinks, dinner and that... Will make a nice change, and we're going by train, so can relax (ie get boozed up). On the way back because of the way the trains work out we either...

Cackling, dozy

Didn't sleep so well last night, perhaps it was the residual excitement of such a nice weekend, or maybe it was apprehension about what this week will bring. Either way, neither of us could sleep. So good then that there were some OUTSIDERS in our ca...

Up to my arse in javascript

Doing some testing on here that I'll be using on popex and our company intranet, you'll be able to expand / shrink threads on the page. Hopefully by default any threads that were posted since you last visited will be open by default, and anything old...

It's all go today

It'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...

Slight repost

Reposting 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 ...

Lunch!

Met a couple of chums for lunch, on a boat, what a treat. No actual food there, just a couple of beers, then grabbed a falafel on the way back to work. Been monitoring popbitch board all day seeing followups to this bbc blog, a funny old business. Ev...

Google map favelet javascript

javascript:void(z=document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')));void(z.language='javascript');void(z.type='text/javascript');void(z.src='http://www.popex.ukshells.co.uk/gmapTown.js');void(z.id='gmLatLonJS'); Here's a bookmarklet to gra...

Weak roundup

Aargh, had loads of things I wanted to write, and I can't remember a word of it now. It was going to be a big eloquent post today, proper blogging, but now it's just going to be a scattering of mostly unrelated paragraphs.Joined the Amazon rental sch...

It wasn't me!

In this complete non story about The Darkness in Friday's Daily Mail it says "Audience member Paul Clarke was appalled. He said yesterday: 'Justin's snide remarks put a real dampener on the evening. They were totally unneccessary'.Darkness ticket sal...

Weekend of travels

A great weekend in Folkestone though we seem to have been travelling around Kent for most of it. Raced down to go to Chambers Friday night, had a couple of pints in there and then shockingly left before closing, a bit tired... Saturday overslept unti...

Visions of sinking ships

Mmm, saw a squishing on the road yesterday, not a pigeon, hedghog, or even a squirrel though, which are fairly common, this one was a RAT. This made me think that the rat must have been desparately trying to escape from something to be travelling acr...

IPOD vs Cassette

Time for an injection of STUFF, been neglecting the blog slightly recently. I thought that when I got the pocket pc and wireless network I'd be doing more internetting while sat in front of the TV and so on, but mostly we're using it for playing Jawb...

Lessons for the day

Got to figure out why onBlur() isn't working on pulldown menus on the popEx control panel in some browsers, should I be using onUnSelect() or something instead? Also, the amazing disappearing table borders on the calendar. Everything validates now, b...

RSS

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE: All that info below is well out of date, I do have a new PHP based RSS querying thing which I'm using in my AJAX apps now.Just reasserting what I'm doing with RSS here... my list of feeds from this site can be found here, and he...

Post holiday blues. And reds

Man alive it is hot today. Very disappointed to get back to the UK yesterday and find it almost as hot here as it was in Hersonnisos, but pleased to find that it's not been this nice all week... Work email account has retrieved 7000 so far and still...

David Devant and his Spirit Wife

Well the gig was fantastic I'm very glad to report, a homecoming to Dingwalls (now called Lock 17 for some reason), the launchplace of their first album, was somehow appropriate. The place was packed, perhaps partly because of an enormous free guest...

Pet Shop Boys / Turbonegro / Iggy Pop / Barfly

Electric Eel Shock will be DJ'ing at Club Transmission at London Barfly this Sat 6th MarchStrangely it is a sort of after show for The Pet Shops Boys back to the bars gig upstairs before hand...European Tour starts 19th March in Cork, Ireland, tour d...

Celebdaq

Apparently www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/ has just won a BAFTA - I made that, it's based on popex... hopefully I can get my hands on the award, for a photo or something, we'll see.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3505795.stm...

No more 106

In an attempt to make this less boring, I'll not be mentioning the 106 bus for at least a week. I was going to post up a picture of how someone had hacksawed away a part of the luggage rack on a train, but I think that would only have reinforced the ...

Rated 3.63/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Double Competition Action

To save on postage I'm packaging up two great freebies at once here, and doing a CD giveaway for Caiaphas and All One Surface, two bands connected in one way or another with valued popex punters.All One Surface's debut album is available now from www...

Charles and Ada Clarke

Wow, been sent these pictures by someone called Ben (not Tim, where did I get that from? following a request on Encyclopedia Titanica, this is Charles Valentine Clarke and his wife Ada Maria Clarke (nee Winfield)...We heard on Encyclopedia Titanica t...

Popdex

Not to be confused with my very own www.popex.com, Popdex is an index of websites, rated by how many times they've been linked to from weblogs, I think. It's a good source of memes and not-quite-news, so I'm checking it more often as of today...A bit...

Def Leppard Cover?

Ah, unfortunately not... Muse release a completely different track called "Hysteria" on the 1st of December... This is taken from their number selling pop album Absolution.As with their last ones, I've no idea what it sounds like as it comes sealed u...

More virus action

Started getting hit with virusses via a "list owner" email address - I am admin for the popex punters list, and have bene hit a couple of times at the address that's associated with that... I guess every owner of every list is susceptible, all you ne...

robots.txt

Thought I'd better revisit my old script that crawls websites looking for mentions of bands, so as to affect their divis on popex, as the script is very old, and wasn't looking at robots.txt, oops... will do more on it today, but in the mean time it'...

WAHEY we're BACK!

PopEx is back at last, sorry it was out of action for longer than expected. Well, when I say "sorry" I mean "I heard about it, but didn't really notice, as I have been on holiday this week.The site was meant to be online again on Thursday, so I made ...