Updated the tree with new infoSome updated birth dates and marriage info...More tree info and photos coming later today<a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/img/oldClarkes/">images all moved to here now</a>...Staying In vs Going OutJust contemplating whether to go out and drink beer some sort of BEAR themed evening with chum MJ Hibbett at the Bull and Gate or stay in with Clare and watch some films she's got in, Ocean's Eleven and Meet The Parents. Also currently consuming the ... One band was goodcan't remember the name though, three piece from Newcastle, and bullandgate.co.uk is no use...Off to either the Defoe or the Wheatsheaf later to play pool... the Defoe is nicer to take our guests to, but the Wheatsheaf is only 50p a game, choices cho... Patrick JosephNow this is a bad website... am quite disappointed with myself that this blog thing was meant to be about how ace Stokey is and how much I like living here, but mostly today it's about how shit the community's websites are. Anyway, looks like the sit... Plans and ApologiesOff to see plans and apologies at the <a href="http://www.bullandgate.co.uk">B&G</a>, wonder if they've updated their website? Then AWAY for a few days, Elvis has left the building, thangyewverymuch.Holiday readingWhile I was away I read Matthew's Prize: Being the Tale of a Whitby Orphan Boy's Longing to Navigate the Broad Seas though I didn't know the title was so long at the time... it's about PIRATES, and it's quite good, if a bit of a blokey version of a m... Pirate StreetmapThis is funny, though the URL is too big to be displayed on here...Day off today, to head to Brighton for the wedding.http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?grid2map?X=532041&Y=184596&title=Treasure!&back=%3Cscript%20language=%22javascript%22%20src... Darkness December datesSMART, new Darkness tour:[quote]The Darkness @ [[Plymouth Pavilion, Plymouth, Devon (Wed 3 Dec)The Darkness @ Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, Dorset (Thu 4 Dec)The Darkness @ Brixton Academy, Brixton, London (Fri 5 Dec)The Darkness @ C... Still no hot waterDid another 5k on the bike this morning, worked up a sweat so that the prospect of a cold shower was quite appealing.Off to Winchester tonight for dinner as a friend (Jules) is back from Denmark for the week.Funeral yesterday was very sad, duh, it's ... PEACE!The nephews have gone home, it's been a fantastic week, but tiring... haven't spent that much time with them both, EVER! Looking forward to our family holiday we've just booked for 20 of us in Greece somewhere.Today; washing, tidying, sitting, watchi... Pirates of the Caribbean is aceWell worth going to see, and Warner Village Islington was a great place to see it. Apart from the bloke sat next to me, who stank. Seats were big, plenty of space, very comfortable.Johnny Depp is great as Captain Jack Sparrow, he apparently based his... Pirates of the Caribbean MISSTEAKS (and spoilers)I thought of a few of things about the film - if "Bootstrap" Bill Turner was tied to an anchor and thrown into the depths after they'd stolen the cursed gold, then right up to the point where Will (Orlando Bloom) bleeds over the gold, his dad is out ... Pop MateTesting this for a mate, looks cool: http://www.popmates.co.uk It's like Friendster apparently.How to make a pirate radio stationThis article on Engadget purports to be instructions on how to make a pirate radio station... all it really says is Google for "how to increase the range of your iTrip". Cheers Engadget.... Updates of the dayGot the David Devant single today, there's a review up here, get tickets for their Dingwalls show... Also some more links to Goldie Lookin' Chain pictures... They're playing live tonight, supporting the Super Furry Animals, and also at some "new band... International Talk Like A Pirate DayARRR!On a spoddy note I am posting this image without using an IMG tag, I've done it as an object instead... this means I can include HTML in the equivalent of the ALT tag, and no-one should see a broken image thing... just learned it, as the proper ... Camera Obscura @ Kings Cross Water RatsMeeting up in the Lucas Arms before... I like Beer In The Evening, well recommended Inspector, I'm going to attempt to fill it up with all the pubs I know in Stokey, Camden, Fareham, and Folkestone and I urge you to do the same...... Day two of IPOD funFigured out the IPOD band index duplicates, it was down to rogue spaces at the end of the artist names... on the MusicMatch software it ignores any extra spaces at the end of names, so "Bon Jovi" is the same as "Bon Jovi ", but on the IPOD itself i... A mate contributes:Goldie Lookin' Chain supported the Super Furry Animals the other week - they finish with a song called Your Mother's Got a Penis. I think one of them may be Charlotte Church's boyfriend too. Not sure if those facts are related.... RE: A mate contribute:Nah that was just a wind up by them that fooled heat magazineA water-cooler momentI sit near a water cooler at work, though I don't ever use it. Is there anything worse coming up to use the water cooler and finding it empty? Yes there is, how about finding the water cooler empty, huffing and complaining to me because I sit near i... Oystercard updateAha, just going through my mails (250 spams over the weekend that got through Yahoo's spam filter), and found that this was sent sometime on Saturday... so it looks like it takes 24 hours for an order to go through:The products you ordered through th... Where does all this water come from?Water is still streaming into the flat, seems to be running down the wall today, like it's coming through the roof and not just the gap in the window, so we've called the letting agent, hope they can sort that a bit sharpish!Giving away some shoes on... Complicated day todayLots of confused explaining of stuff and things... work on the Barfly calendar, work on PopEx, work on Supervision's calendar, about a quarter of a day of each... hmm, doesn't quite add up, have been doing some thinking about meetings tomorrow, have ... A public holiday to celebrate us winning the world cup?come on Tessa, let's have it..."We will look at all the appropriate ways of marking this... but you can be absolutely sure that the team will be honoured in the way that everybody in England wants to see them honoured," she said. ... 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... How to convert an Excel date to a UNIX dateExcel stores a date as the number of days since the start of 1900, and UNIX as the number of seconds since the start of 1970, so the sum is: <code>$unixTime = ( $excelDate - 25569 ) * 24 * 60 * 60;</code> Curry and Mouse PooTOP curry yesterday, went to Tayyab near Whitechapel, very good, queued right out the door, which makes a change from all the hustling you get on Brick Lane... had a few pints before in The Ten Bells, also well recommended.Note to self: Never, ever g... Pirates of the Caribbean DVD<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008KDHH/clarkeology-21#">Out Monday!</a>The DarkRazzle of Hanoi Rocks previous punk band. Plus Sedated, Mutilate and Conditional Discharge.Pink FloydAt the Grateful Dead Caravan festival...Manic Street PreachersCANCELLED, rescheduled for a week later? Quite a few people now say they were there, so looks like it was! Last day on the Generation Terrorists tour possibly.Polyphonic Spreewith Mull Historical Society, Hope of the States and The Hokum Clones EamonGenuine spat with his ex-girlfriend? Or a couple of stage school brats put up to it by the label? You decide... Only 17.50 to you squire! He's opening for Britney Spears in the US of States you know...Goldie Lookin' ChainCANCELLED!!! Do you remember howling them off the stage when they supported The Darkness last January? Well, they're BACK! You knows it. Update: oh no they're not, it's cancelled...Westlife in Dublin, Republic of IrelandFormed: in Dublin, Ireland Style: Pop Check out: 'Uptown Girl' 'Mandy' Westlife in Dublin, Republic of Ireland tickets Westlife announce a series of UK dates between May and June. The Westlife...Samson+ Denigh + Tomahawk... Final date of the "Survivors" Tour. Power cut in 1st songThe Temper Trap in ManchesterThe Temper Trap in Manchester tickets The Temper Trap celebrate Christmas with a one-off show at the beautiful Koko in Camden. The Australian band returns for a full UK headline...Desperate HousewivesThe Inbreds + Hatemail + My life In The Making + ZeroscapeGreat Indie/Alt. Rock From Canada & UK. 7.30pm £4TravisWith Starsailor and Ryan Adams and I think Remy Zero. A Warchild benefit night, I quite literally have the t-shirt for this one mate.The DarknessHave I misdated this one? I was at David Bowie this day...The DarknessBig proper gig, with label mate support from Sweatmaster and Sludgefeast.Dogs D'Amourplus Under Neath What... went to London to see UNW a few days later, probably the Marquee...The PrimitivesPlus the Pale Saints, I later went on to work with their lead singer at nme.comSkid Rowplus LA Guns and Love / Hate. The latter announced a "secret" gig they were doing the next day in London, I should have gone they were one of my fave bands of the day.Love / HatePlus my first time (of many) of seeing Atom Seed, and a couple of other bands. Happy new year!Belle & SebastianKaraoke as a warm up act? Or was it Franz Ferdinand? We went in late and missed all that, but a friend of a friend did get up and sing Lazy Line Painter Jane with the band.... The AvalanchesWent with an old workmate, got drunk before the gig and I think I went home as soon as the band came on.The Beta BandNME Brats show, lovely write up: [quote]Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolle... Steve CooganFairly bland sets of Tony Ferrino and possibly Alan Partridge, but warm up came from newcomer Simon Pegg. Whatever happened to him?Graham CoxonExcellent, good to see his <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag=clarkeology-21#&mode=blended&keyword=blur" title="Amazon: Blur">Blur</a> bandmates turning out to cheer him on the audience too, Damon was pogoing away like a goodunDavid Devant And His Spirit WifeThis actually might not have been the LEGENDARY album launch do, found a pass with a date on it so guessing it was earlier this year...Presidents of the United States of AmericaSoho Live, plus 3 Colours Red and Imperial Teen.PlaceboI went in late on a whim, missed the support, who might have been Deus.The Montrose AvenueMatt Everitt of Menswear was in the band, this was the height of girly indie, there were tiaras, fairy wings, and even rollerskates in the crowd.Annie Hates CordialA local band for local peoplePuppetry of the penisEye watering. Would you try something like this..?Keira Patel