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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...

Canterbury, yesterday

Went to Canterbury yesterday, ate lunch, came home. That was about it really. Got some Thai food in The Hobgoblin. My jungle curry was pretty good, very hot too, but Clare didn't like her Pad Thai chicken.Yeah, not the most interesting thing for you ...
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Been quiet for a few days

No I've not been out on the larry-large every day over christmas, been a bit under the weather actually, though that's not what's kept me off the computer. When I'm not at work and Clare's home too I never get to sit in front of the computer, she's p...
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A festive update from Hibbett

Hmm, this newsletter is called "The Last Working Day Of The Month" (from one of his songs), but he's practically a civil servant and finished work for the year a week ago at least, I'm still working...welcome to this SUPER CHRISTMASSY edition of our ...

Particularly fulsome weekend, with curries.

Splendid weekend, a bit different this time, starting off with a half day on Friday. I headed to Winchester to meet up with some friends, and really needed the extra time to make the most of the night. Clare stayed home watching Children in Need afte...

Quiet night in Folkestone

Saturday we went on a bit of tour of Folkestone, just to remind us and our visitor Emma of some of the less salubrious joints in town. We were originally going to head into Hythe and get a curry, but Emma already had a dinner lined up, so decided to ...

Oh dear what's happened to the style then?

Been playing with PhpGedView while I had some time to play with PHP (which might help me with work) and genealogy things(which probably won't). It's "skinnable", but only sort of, it needs some hacking to integrate it in this site, and in the process...
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My last things

My last day at this job started with my last delayed train on the way in to this job, fifteen minutes late, though I hardly noticed as I slept quite well on the way in. I suffered the grimness of the last blocked train toilet on this commute too, ble...

Nice long weekend in Sandgate, Folkestone, Hythe and Portchester

FINE weekend, thank you far asking, good long weekend too, but a bit tiring. Thursday was birthday day (my birthday and also the wife's birthday), and while we were working in the day we'd booked the Friday off so we could have a night out with no fe...
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All my pictures at once

See all my pictures at once on flickr leech, or all anyone's pictures - now can you tell me how to sort out all those pictures that I've clearly uploaded twice. Straight off I can see all the Andy and Hazel in the curry house is duplicated, but can I...

Up to my elbows in computer bits

Fitted the new hard drive to the computer, though not got windows recognising it yet... got that final piece of missing info today, so by tonight I should have 120gig of space, rapidly being filled up with downloaded content! FINALLY I can backup my ...

Ace weekend

Took a road trip to Fareham to visit the family this weekend, borrowing Clare's dad's car. No problems getting there, though it's not a drive I've done myself before, up the M20, round the M25 and then down the A3. The A3 near the Devil's Punchbowl w...

San Francisco

So, part the first of my big holiday / honeymoon write up. Slight preamble, some experiences on the way there. Our flights were at nice civilised times, but to save any rush and extend the holiday a bit, we booked into a hotel at Heathrow. But it was...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Well, great weekend in London with all the family, though it got off to a bit of a damp start for me... Left work at 5, picked up some beers and headed to our hotel to meet Clare, and got caught in the FIERCEST downpour ever! Frantically tried to dry...

Damn I had a really good headline in mind for this

SO, went to Ireland at the weekend, and it was very nice! Here will follow my little review of where we went and what we did, and things I recommend and things I don't.Friday morning we had a wedding meeting at Lympne Castle, TOO EARLY, and too many ...

Let it snow let it snow let it snow

GREAT weekend, which I will come back to as it's time to do some work. Bit cold, but very nice to see Clare's bro who was visiting from the Americas. He and his wife and their little dog live and work in Miami, and don't get to visit that often so we...

No weekend plans

Working from home again yesterday worked out well I think, though no actual results to show so far. Getting into Class::DBI, I like it, and might start to use it in other things I do... Here's a handy guide to using Class::DBI.Heading to Folkestone t...

UK Radio Aid

"Today is the most extraordinary day ever in radio. Every commercial station in the UK is broadcasting UK Radio Aid - a day of very special guests, presenters and activity to raise money for the Tsunami appeal. You'll never hear anything like it agai...

A bit of 'ush please

Nice evening out at the Cross Keys and then to the Punjab. The combo of Spitfire and curry have given me a touch of wind today, but at least I have finally asked my ushers to Ush for me on the big day. Still got plenty more to do for the wedding, acc...

Let's see those hands in the air...

The Darkness tonight at Brixton Academy, looking forward to this, haven't seen them play since the Barfly Music Passport show, this'll be only the third time this year... really wanted to see them again, couldn't face going to Wembley, so was pleased...

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Diverted via East Bank and the post office this morning, to collect my Darkness tickets, and saw an accident on the way. A car pulled out without indicating, right into a cyclist. Both going at fairly slow speeds, so no damage done I don't think, tho...

iPod Download

I don't use iTunes myself, but I'm sure I will when I have a bigger setup and can sync everything... at the moment I move stuff to the IPOD and then delete it from the PC as I don't have a lot of storage... Anyway, it seems that iTunes has pulled the...

How the music biz can live forever, get even richer, and be loved | The Register

Reading this, "Why will the current Apple/Napster model fail?". I don't know why it'll fail, I've not got to the end yet. Thankyou www.theregister.co.uk... Hmm, that reminds haven't checked out www.memepool.com or www.popdex.com since I moved to a ne...

The best day of the week?

According to the weather forecast this will be the best day of the week. And it's horrible, that's why I'm messing about on the computer and not getting ready to go to our new office in Farringdon... Actually with it being closer and me not having a ...

Big knobs

Who'd have believed something so ace could come out of Cheriton of all places? As part of our "Clare's bro is visiting from The Colonies" celebrations at the weekend, we had an ace curry from Cheriton Balti and Tandoori, really very good indeed. Some...
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Big weekend then

Managed to fit quite a lot in the weekend, we completed on the flat so went round there and sort of wandered about in the vastness of it, there's no furniture in it yet. Saturday we went to Gate 28 friends and family, and sorted out the minor detail ...

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Bandwidth bother II

And then this site goes down, for doing 6.5 gigabytes of data transfer so far this month, so now I am paying extra to keep it going, I will be moving all the images off for a start...Ace curry at the Punjab last night, feeling a little weak today. Go...

Tayyab

Apparently authentic Pakistani food, absolutely bloody fantastic curry anyway, and well worth the enormous queue we had to get in on Saturday night. It's small, and it's got no booze license, and it was a bun-fight to get a table (much queue jumping)...

Up early to get those AC/DC tickets

C'mon...Good weekend though, started slightly fuzzy with booze, then met the parents for a curry at the Punjab in Covent Garden, then saw David Blaine in his box, he really does seem to be there, I don't get what the trick is still. Is David Blaine c...
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Excitement

Did some work on Clare's family tree, she's related to Harry Clarke the artist, but not related to us. Also bought an IPOD (still waiting for it to be delivered) a very productive weekend.My new favourite curry house is the Anglo Asian on Stoke Newin...