More tree info and photos coming later today<a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/img/oldClarkes/">images all moved to here now</a>...ah, it's the anniversary of the Titanic going down today innit...Viva Las VegasI have been in that Las Vegas, nice place, shame about the food, for me anyway. Had a nice grilled vege sub from Quizno's on the way home, but apart from that it's not the best place for a vegan. Breakfast was fried potato and spicy tomato sauce, mor... AlcudiaOff to <strong>Majorca</strong> in the morning, for a week, staying at <strong>Bahia Alcudia</strong>... playing <strong>pool</strong>, by the pool, and drinking cheap booze here we come...Bahia De Alcudia"Guten Tag" as they say in Majorca... weather is fine, though we had one day of rain, food is shockingly bad, Clare got food poisoning one day. Not from the hotel though, we've not eaten much here. The guests seem to be about half English and half Ge... Thieving bastardsLook out if you're coming to Majorca, the place is crawling with thieves. Actually no it's not, but we've encountered a couple of criminal signs... saw a couple of kids trying it on by the pool of our hotel, ripping off tourist handbags, and noticed ... 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... Friday 13thToday I'm pissed off, got some sort of court order going on for a bill that's already been paid, didn't get to the front door in time to sign for a "special delivery" that I wasn't expecting, hot bus and tube journey in and hay fever galore... ARSES.... Darkness Album arrived todayso back in the office to pick it up... tasks:Admin and reviewing and news story preparing for popexExtracting content from The Fly magazine for use in linking to them from popex, generating page impressions and thatFurther chasing of ringtones deal, ... I don't like Mondays<ul><li>Along with the fall out of Friday's divi mail, Monday is the busiest day... charts to process , new bands to add, and a lot of emailing</li><br /><li>At least I'm working from home today, temperature is over 30 in the office</li></ul>YesterdayPopbitch party was last night, a little trial of a new venue, Centro on Grays Inn Road, worked well though I didn't stay long... went instead for pints at the Rose and Crown and then The Defoe and then a Chinese from some place on Church Street we'd ... FridayToday, tinkered with Barfly module, processed lots of mails and punter deletions and made enhancements to popex, specifically adding new bands and furthering the recruitment drive, nice.Blee, death in the family this morning, and also a surprise secr... Two task lists todayOne for lunchtime:Buy an exercise bike - Lillywhite's number is 0870 3339600, seems to be an old number listed all over the web, including their own website, bit slack... ALSO, 118 118, got their number, they offer to "connect you", then all the time... 6.5k on the exercise bike todayI'm pleased with that, it's up from 5k every day since we had the bike...Someone seems to be playing a saxaphone outside, it's so bohemian round here. I could be hallucinating that because of the heat though. 37 degrees today, should be about 10 degr... 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... Sunday Times takes the Orient ExpressDid you know it still travels through Folkestone? Read all about it, they didn't enjoy the change in our town though...Then we reached Folkestone, got off the train and onto a coach, yes, a coach, for the Eurotunnel transfer: going round Folkestone r... Todays tasksHad a big meeting. Worked on popex stats. Integrated Google ads into popex. Worked on the Barfly admin system, including making a "public" version of the "show artist" page. Ready to go any day now, as I've been saying for weeks...... Tasks for the day<ul><li>Barfly development</li><br /><li>Barfly venue staff admin</li><br /><li>Popex <a href="http://www.google.com/adsense/">google ad</a> admin</li><br /><li>PopEx admin, account deleting</li><br /></ul>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 ... Oasis @ Portsmouth Wedgewood RoomsI was there at The Wedge, ace gig, and I really do remember this one, unlike the Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird one I wrote up the other day...Found this bit of text from an NME interview, written by Simon Williams, quoting the band talking about t... Jobs for todayHalf popex admin, including reworking stuff for the redesign, and half the artist profile pages and daily email for Barfly...Saturday night drinkingHeading out to the <a href="http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/show.shtml/2213/">Shakespeare</a> for a bit of a change, haven't been there before.Office Cleaning DayRushing through my PopEx admin this morning (charts to add, etc) then this afternoon is the great office clean, bit odd, then a big company meeting, even odder.Have noticed lots of wacky referers, that aren't actually referers at all, but are showing... RE: Office Cleaning Day<br />That sounds more like the company going bust.<br /><br />1. Tidy your desk<br />2. Go to meeting saying you no longer have a deskToday's tasksMore tweaks to the Band Bible, including a "quick add a thing to the system", that'll be used across all projects eventually.40GB of rubbish heavy metalWOO! The IPOD turned up today! And after all the worry of it going astray in the post or getting stolen, I get home to find it's been left on the door step.And if I thought the day couldn't get any brighter, it turns out that one tin of spaghetti hoo... 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... MJ Hibbett and the Validators Christmas newsletterIt's the last working day of the month for me too! I don't think this means it's pay day though, as we should be working between christmas and new year, it's just holiday rather than shutdown. I very much enjoyed Mark's Totally Acoustic at The Lamb, ... Also Nan's BirthdayClosed on a Saturday nightWhen we went past on Saturday night (11th October), it seemed to be closed, what a shame.The RainmakersDon't know what day in February this was yet... Very poor turnout though apparently.Skid Row<strong>Gary Moore</strong> (also of <strong>Thin Lizzy</strong>'s band of this name (nothing to do with <strong>Sebastian Bach</strong> et al) played Folkestone some time this month, not sure what day...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.Big Night Out in Covent Garden, 4 World Class Comedians. Great Drinks Deals, Superb Aftershow Nightclub., Every Friday & Saturday.CharlatansVery nice to see contemporary bands coming to town, two in two days, how will people afford it, bit steep!Blur<strong>Reading</strong> warmup, got very drunk on <strong>vodka red bull</strong>s, fell in a bush,and you can see me on the <strong>South Bank Show</strong> Special that was filmed there. Off to <strong>Reading</strong> the next day.Coldplay<strong>Coldplay</strong> <strong>Barfly session</strong> was today, <a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/7358/Coldplay+at+Barfly+yesterday">I was there</a>... cosy.Six By SevenPlus <strong>...Trail Of Dead</strong>, awesome. There was another Trail of Dead show just days before this, not sure it's the Highbury Garage show I'm thinking of buy maybe.Rosie's DumplingsIrish folk, back for a post Paddy's day booze up... what do you reckon, should I try and book them for my wedding?EUROPETUESDAY EVENING 19:30.WASPNot sure what day, the ticket is very faded... Zed Yago supported, this site says REM played there only two days before, I did pick the gigs to go to...... The DarknessHave I misdated this one? I was at <strong>David Bowie</strong> this day...Dogs D'Amourplus <strong>Under Neath What</strong>... went to London to see <strong>UNW</strong> a few days later, probably the Marquee...Skid Rowplus <strong>LA Guns</strong> and <strong>Love / Hate</strong>. 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.Paul McCartney<strong>Mothers Day</strong> present for Mum and Clare's mum, we went with them and Dad and Emma. Jim missed out as he has been to more gigs with us before...AC/DCSpecial gig, we had to queue all day for tickets. Support from <strong>Hundred Reasons</strong>.And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead<strong>NME Brats</strong> show, plus <strong>Rocket From The Crypt</strong>, <strong>Peaches</strong>, and <strong>The Strokes</strong>, yes <a href="http://www.clarkeology.com/m/6833/Saturday+%40+The+Brats">I did see them</a>...The Vinessupported by <strong>The Libertines</strong>. Two gigs in one night, think I saw either <strong>The Darkness</strong> or <strong>Neds Atomic Dustbin</strong> this day too...AshMidday show, Japanese TV recording, <a href="http://drownedinsound.com/news/394">news here</a>.Bitch AidThe party to raise some money for popbitch - putting it here as a gig as I met <strong>John Deacon</strong> that day, I just found an autographed receipt in with my tickets...Tigerplus Chicks, at <strong>Camden Falcon</strong>. Probably a <strong>Barfly</strong> thing, but when it was at the Falcon... anyone remember such days?Reading FestivalJust went for the day, and we picked the worst day by far looks like, RHCP disappointed. I remember They Might Be Giants and Echobelly and Ginger Wildhearts playing with a broken arm.... ArtA play, a birthday treat, long running, had <strong>Art Malik</strong> in it and it was <strong>Frank Skinner</strong>'s first night.The SundaysGreen DaySome 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.Tigerplus <strong>Linoleum</strong>. Had to walk back from Southampton after being stopped with no lights on my bike, then head to Phoenix Festival the next day.PerformanceLocal. My birthday. Plus Cloudburst.Hythe Farmers' MarketFarmers' Market in the hall behind the Light Railway Restaurant, Scanlen's Bridge Road, Hythe. Time: 10:00am to midday (every second and fourth Saturday of the month).Primal ScreamThink I have the date right, sure it was the day before <strong>Oasis</strong>.Quiz and dinnerEvery Wednesday, a quiz and dinner. You need to book a table.