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Validation, that's what you need...

Just curious if this site validates... Unlikely I'd have thought.

"myself, I'm supposed to be an authority on agriculture and rural development"

The UK Independence Party is setting it's sights on Folkestone, more here from the BBC...

Doc Searls' IT Garage

News, ideas and real world stories about how IT folks solve their own problems

Blog Torrent

Simplified Bittorrent, it says here... server side scripts for managing bittorrents.

Writing an Extension for Firefox

Liking this guide to writing a Firefox extension, good work duffblog.Done writ two reviews today String Quartet tribute to The Darkness (rubbish) and Worlds Apart (good) the new album from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.Heating went off...

Javascript vector graphics library

This JavaScript Vector Graphics library provides graphics capabilities for JavaScript...
Via ntk.net.

How I Feed My Cats with Linux

I don't even have a cat, but here's a handy guide to controlling external appliances with your computer... One day I will have me some of that.

Mail::Bulkmail - Platform independent mailing list module

howto: getting started with microcontroller programming

Customising Google Maps

This is complicated, but looks COOL. An offshoot of Google Maps Hacks...UPDATE: Not so complex, but how long will Google let this be done? Or maybe they'll put something like this in as a real feature..? Check out my Earl Grey page to see it in actio...

Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets

BBC Backstage

Backstage access to BBC news etc... for developers, to make something funky out of BBC content. What should I do? Oh, not actually a lot there from the beeb yet except links to all their RSS feeds, and some user contributed ideas for BBC Hacks. Some ...

Google Map App

Made me a sensible google map based application at last, it's an interactive map of Folkestone... actually it's not limited just to Folkestone, it's a guide to all the places in the world that I've been, but it's constrained to just Folkestone on tha...

Google Maps API

Ooh there's a proper Google Maps API now, they've made things like this legit! The old way still works, and the new way means a full recoding, but it will make sure the map app is stable... so it's great for my interactive map of folkestone, but less...

Fading mouseover tooltip thing

Just put some funky javascript on here from this site that does neat fading tool tip mouse over things, I like it. Also made the "reply to this message" page a little bit neater, tidied some things away and copied a bit off flickr.com can you tell wh...

slayeroffice | Mouseover DOM Inspector

Traversing the HTML Table with JavaScript and DOM interfaces

Systems development type stuff

Mostly web based, my CV is here, going to cover the site with "job wanted" ads too... Hoping to find something local, though it looks like the local economy can't support my expensive lifestyle, so looking in London too. Would love to stop commuting,...

RE: Systems development type stuff

I know what you mean. I would find it very hard to give up my job in London so I hope the business will take off soon.I will forward your cv to my husband. He is an account manager at a design/advertising agency in Canterbury and he may be looking fo...

Trent developments are bypassing the council

They're going direct to the government for their building certificate, so the council have missed their chance to approve or reject Trent and Godden's plans...

RE: Trent developments are bypassing the council

WHAT? Sneaky buggers! How can we stop it? Is physical protest the only thing left to protect our town from these vandals?

Rotunda / seafront masterplan starting to move ahead

Billionaire Roger De Haan has revealed he is in negotiation with a number of companies which will become partners in the venture to realise his popular Masterplan vision.The former Saga boss will redevelop the redundant site to provide benefits inclu...

The Leas Club closing?

I heard a rumour from two places the last couple of days (perhaps it was in this week's paper?) that the Leas Club is closing, and the site being redeveloped as flats. Can anyone confirm or deny?Do we really need more flats?UPDATE: duh yeah it was th...

Foster Gearing's virtual reality zoom around our Creative Quarter

Foster Gearing's video of it's vision for our very own Creative Quarter... hmm is there any mileage in pretending the FG on their video really stands for Folkestone Gerald?The Old High Street is much like that already isn't it? Has about that many pe...

Folkestone regeneration news

Terry Farrell & Partners have been appointed to draw up plans for the redevelopment of Folkestone Harbour and Seafront.The proposals will be residential-led and aim to create a vibrant public realm enlivening the seafront with a mix of new uses.Is th...

Weekend roundup

AS I mentioned, Harry and I did go to the beach, it was packed. We did not venture on to the sand itself, really just wanted a nice walk around in the sunshine. It was a very nice day indeed. Walked around the Harbour, there's always redevelopment of...

Alternative child development milestones

Alternative child development milestones, I recognise these...

Quiet day today

Everyone is clearly winding down to christmas. Possibly meant to be in London today, but I've come in to the office instead as it was not clear. Lots of snow still on the fields near work, and a spooky mist over everything too, looks nice.Been lookin...

Octochamp

Not that I goon unneccesarily about what a genius my boy is, but today he said EIGHT WORDS in a row, two sentences, without a break. Up until today I think the most has been three words "daddy read it" and "daddy fix it". This morning I turned the mo...

Cloud day

It's come around fast, today is the day we move all our web systems up to Amazon Web Services for hosting, instead of hosting all our own web servers. This has been a major project, rewriting quite a lot of code and a lot of testing that is not quite...