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A rare night out in London tonight

Meeting a friend here after work before meeting Clare later, and staying in a hotel, how decadent. Tomorrow, lunching and shopping.Camera update: it just sent me an email, the first in days. Always a bit nervy receiving a mail saying "motion detected...

More camera strangeness

I had a burst of five emails in a row from the camera, not sure if it's when I'd tweaked with the settings or not so no idea if it's working or not. Might try turning off the video attachment see if that's any easier on the email. Found lots of stuff...

Mysterious young entrepreneur secures local support

Hmm got emailed this today and thought "I recognise that chap", he used to work at our place. Read the whole press release though, have you any idea what the business is? The accompanying pictures show our Dan stood next to a painted lady (literally,...

it's definitely cheaper than a webcam and a dedicated server

but yeah it's not working very well yet... it will be handy for security, see if anyone comes to the door etc, it should email me when it motion detects, so I can point it at the telly and get a video email if the telly falls over or anything like th...

RE: And the camera's working at last

Blimey, it's still a bit pricey, all all so that people can spy on their partners while they're at work. Plus it still doesn't seem to perform very well, better off with a web cam and a mini server.

And the camera's working at last

Outgoing mail server is mail.btinternet.com, and username is just the username, not the email address. I authorised another email address on my own clarkeology.com domain to send from my btbroadband in the end, but don't think I really needed to do t...

Linksys WVC54G wireless camera, btinternet SMTP and gmail

Dug out my wireless camera, to see if it could be used as a web cam - it's good quality, with sound, but more for security monitoring than sitting in front of the screen and talking. Don't think it can, but it's good to have it up and running again a...

A handy guide to how tall stuff is

imgs.xkcd.com/comics/height.pngFrom xkcd.com. Wow this makes the blog content nearly as long as the ad-stuffed sidebar! Still haven't heard back from Ebay about their new affiliate scheme. I'm chucking free links to them left right and centre to them...

Got my Folkestone Literary Festival tickets

We're off to talks by David Starkey and Susie Dent, and I've also ended up with one for Sandi Toksvig. Clare was meant to be going with her Mum, but they've double booked. There are more things I'm tempted to go to, but it would mean going out on a s...

Splendid weekend of comedy, food, double dinners, and everything

Great weekend. As an intro though, specifically for the people from work who mentioned they had found this page recently - at no point did I drink too much and become annoying, I am a fine upstanding member of staff. Probably you can go back to work ...

No it does seem to have gone

I'm sure you can see it at work, and it must reappear online at some point!

Come on over to my place

Do you want to come and work here? See our recruitment video.I'm positive they said they would ask permission before they featured us, I think I'm pretty definitely featured there in the bit where they say WE'RE LOOKING FOR A WEB GURU!!! That's not m...

Massive hen party descending on this week's Lone Star Comedy

Big hen party booked in for Lone Star Comedy this Friday, a few tickets remaining though! Single tickets available online at Online via www.lonestarcomedy.co.uk but for two or more best call Richard on 07810 864228 or email lonestarcomedy@hotmail.com...
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Eggheads?

What's happened to Eggheads on BBC IPlayer? It's VANISHED! I've got used to watching it every day when we get in from work...Also my torrent speed seems a bit slow, not that I am trying to download the new episode of House or anything. New series of ...

Don't ye be forgettin' dawgs

Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day!Every year I think I'm going to make more of a deal of this at work, have written some especially piratey code to roll out, and every year I forgets, arrr......

It is about the Whole World Cafe in the Old high street

when you go in the cafe you do not know what to do i.e self serve or be sit and be served.. it turns out it depends on the mood of the owner. The eldery Irish lady seemed bored to be there but i did order my food which was hard work as the black boar...

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Terry Pratchett's Nation limited edition.

I've got one of these a Nation special edition, I think. Dad queued from early this morning to secure one of these, and got it signed, good work!Had a great day in London where we also saw Terry Pratchett, he helicoptered between Hayling Island (wher...

Origami luggage labels

How has no-one already made such a thing? Looking for an origami pattern for a baggage label and I can find no such thing, can you help?

Precision engineering?

Are you a major shipbuilder looking for some machine components? How about a vintage aeroplane fan who needs some custom remade components? Structural engineering components? Marine leisure industry components? No, I thought not, but I'm thinking of ...

Google Chrome Easter egg

Sort of (you need to be running Google Chrome). Not sure that works even if you are using 'Chrome. Go to your location bar SUPER OMNI BAR and type in "about:internets".Wasn't really worth the wait, was it. Sorry....

David Devant top ten

Just 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...
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Folkestone fringe

at the leas lift, curated by club shepway:this saturday and sunday cathy lomax and alex michon present l'estranger:where paranoid plup fiction drives out fact...a dishevelled young stranger arrives at a coastal town. his clothes are strange and his f...

Hectic day at work today

I think it's all going well though. Still playing with Google Chrome, not sure I will choose it over Firefox though, where is the "home" button? Also I like all the plugins in Firefox, how long before Google Chrome introduces something like that? The...

Lone Star Comedy returns on Saturday September 27th

The Lone Star Comedy Club returns to the Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe Garrsion in Cheriton � on Saturday September 27th.The line up consists of THE AMAZING MR SMITH, SHELAGH MARTIN, compere TIERNAN DOUIEB, plus a newcomer�s act. THE AMA...
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Fighting Cocks on BBC Asian Network

Chum Charlie is film reviewer on Sunday's BBC Asian Network (1hr 15 in), no need for Realplayer to play BBC radio! Cheers Mark for that.Off to the quiz tonight....

Folkestone camera club

Folkestone Camera Club starts it's new season on Monday 1st September with a Welcome Evening for any potential new members coming along.There will be several displays showing our work and explaining what we do each week and at our monthly practical e...

Woo back online

Everything working again, got the right version of XP Media Centre and I'm good to go. So far the computer is running faster and cleaner than it was before, but I'm sure that'll change...

A week of technological disasters

My 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...

FAREWELL LEAS GIG FOR BATTLESKA GALACTICA

BATTLESKA GALACTICA play their farwell gig at the Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone on Saturday September 6th which also doubles up as a CD release party!The "That Is Really All" show also features LOS SALVADORES, TAR and TWICE THE SIZE.Energetic skacore...

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Quiet here...

Computer still dead, so not updating much. Got the installation disks and tried to recover the boot record, but no joy. Recovery looked like it was working, so I don't know that the whole disk is dead, but I've bought a new hard drive anyway, will t...

Portsmouth Guildhall

Festival in Guildhall Square, Firework Party, The Rubber Bishops (Bill Bailey + Kevin Eldon, Midway Still, Alan Parker, Moonshake, Atilla The Stockbroker, Eat, Back To The Planet, Mega City Four, [[Trevor & Simo...

Islington Academy

Free thing through work, a gig for competition winners originally billed as being Paul Weller, actually turned out more interestingly as these guys and also Space...

Electric Ballroom

Went with an old workmate, got drunk before the gig and I think I went home as soon as the band came on.
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Barfly

Before I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonderstuff early, doh... There was a ruckus and the police sent us all home.

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Kings College

Some special Radio One thing, got a nice freebie from friends I was about to start working with at Channelfly. Green Day picked some kids out of the audience and made them play a song.

Reading Festival

Blur headlined, not a very strong lineup I don't think. I was working mostly, and managed to lose my first mobile phone that work lent me.

Forum

A work freebie, we nearly didn't get in because I couldn't prove I was who I was claiming to be (I wasn't). A charity contribution sorted it out...
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Reading Festival

My first gig with nme.com, I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them)....

Portsmouth Pyramids

So who was it actually played the Pyramids this night? I know I was at the Mike Flowers Pops one, I remember holding the door open to a radio reporter so they could report from the gig using the payphone in the lobby, as their satellite phone wasn't ...
Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

The Wedgewood Rooms

plus Annie Hates Cordial and Savage Henry. Local!
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The Wedgewood Rooms

plus The Firework Party and Hooch. LOCAL!
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Portsmouth Guildhall

£8.00

Portsmouth Guildhall

Plus the Pale Saints, I later went on to work with their lead singer at nme.com