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Live pirate map!

Missed opportunity, why use google's default map pins instead of little skull and crossbone graphics?This map shows all the piracy and armed robbery incidents reported to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre during 2008....

Dad, did you say you were after a new phone?

How about this one?

A chum just sent it, they're made in Folkestone apparently...

Who is Russell Brand?

Lordy, could Russell Brand have done anything better to raise his profile than that phone call to Andrew Sachs? Mostly it's probably the Hate Mail on Sunday that's to blame. When the original Russell Brand show went out, no-one was listening. It's on...

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...

AF&RM CAMRA says Gate 28 is reopening as a pizza restaurant

Not sure if that info is more up to date than what I read on Facebook. This is from the September issue of Marsh Mash, the newsletter of Ashford, Folkestone and Romney Marsh branch of CAMRA: The bad news, The Fox Willesborough was firmly closed when ...

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Keep them safe

I am just waiting to grow a bit round the waist and for my legs to shrink with old age and then I'll steal them off you!Vintage Levis are worth good money, if only you'd not worn them for decorating! Can't find any on ebay to prove a point but I'm su...

Where can I find listings for Club NME Canterbury?

If you know anyone involved, get them to get in touch with me. I only just found out it had moved from Studio 41 to the UCCA bar.myspace is no help myspace is awful... is there a facebook group or something I can get listings from? Facebook is awful ...

Hot Leg

Hey the free MP3 of Hot Leg is pretty good! You can get it from Hot Leg's myspace page. Got tickets for the gig now, looking forward to it! Time for the country mice's biannual trip to the big city!...

The inaugural Folkestone Triennial is almost here!

Join us for the launch events:-Fireworks on Friday 13th June at 10.30pm from Folkestone harbour and visible along Folkestone's coastline will celebrate the start of the Triennial, followed by a programme of family events on Saturday 14th June, from 1...

Kiss meet and greet and soundcheck packages - ONE THOUSAND EUROS!

I mentioned these the other day, they're on sale now for European dates (but not UK), and picking Berlin as an example, it'll cost you an extra 1050 euros on top of your ticket price, to go to the soundcheck and meet the band. Bargain....

Canterbury Twitter chatter kicking off

Been monitoring twitter.com for mentions of Canterbury, and it's all kicked off today after the archbishop made some ill judged comment or other about Sharia law:These messages were sent while you were offline.3:39 PM twitter: (conservatweet): [Jawa]...

RE: Folkestone and its neighbourhood by S. J. Mackie

hI,i READ YOUR MESSAGE ABOUT GETTING "EASY" GETTING A COPY OF "mackie". i'M ONLY INTERESTED IN pAGE 152 REF "coldham".Did you obtain it, and if so, could you guide me as to how i could obtain a copy, ideally at a low price.With many thanksGerard Cold...

Space food!

A couple of future-food links from friends, to share... first actual astronaut food from Rob, and then also Hot Pack Self Heating Meals from Neil.Massive lunch today of sausages, ratatouille, and baked potato, an extra serving that Clare made up yest...

10% discount at Bar Vasa

Monday to WednesdayWe are now offering a 10% discount on all pre ordered meals every week between Monday and Wednesday until 31st March. All you have to do is select a meal from our menu and call us now on 01303 243956 to book a table.Check out their...

Google Maps API + Thickbox

Had some trouble for a while at work with getting our google maps working with this thickbox, and I put it off for ages (telling people not to put a map in a lightbox), but today I got to the bottom of it. Don't load your map until the lightbox has l...

My gigography

Just done some fiddling about on the site, rearranged the gigography a tiny bit. Now, first time you go there the big boring explanation of what it's all about should still appear at the top of the page. BUT, here's the clever bit, if you then click ...

Going to Wagamama this weekend?

Rah, so are we. We were off to Canterbury anyway though we might not have had time for a sit down lunch, but this two for one voucher just about swung it for us. Possibly we will be forgoing our Saturday afternoon game of Trivial Pursuit at The Dolph...
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Don't believe the hyple?

Quite. That site looks suspiciously empty, I don't think much of their terms and conditions or privacy policyeither. A knobber door is doubtful, a front for a spammer perhaps?Did you give them your email addresses chaps ? They're just trying to take...

Programming is a poetry for our time

A fairly new song up on MJ Hibbett's youtube channel, not actually a new song, nor actually even new to youtube as it's been up there for a few days already, but hey I've not seen it and you probably haven't either, so let's pretend it's all new and ...

50 Mb broadband trial in Folkestone

You must be an existing Virgin Media customer, and savvy enough to connect your new kit up yourself, then you can sign up here... Good luck!

Party weekend

Bah, I wrote this out once already and closed the browser by mistake... had kind of a busy week at work, that's got to be a good thing, but it's meant not really any time for writing here in the day time, and some days have seen me concentrating on s...

Up to our HIPs (geddit?!?!?)

First off, huge trouble at the quiz at The Ship last night - the wife and I were on different teams, as we had friends with us. It was looking like Clare's team was going to walk the mini quiz with a straight ten out of ten, and we'd got one wrong, s...

Rated 6.03/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Number one result for "Habitat Radius"

Was just trying to find the furniture we bought at the weekend, and all the top results are me, how strange. It's down to Habitat's website being quite bad, the whole flash interface makes it hard to index, so my pages are coming up top. ANYWAY, here...

Transport updates

Journey times have been much better since Monday. If I race out of the door here at six, I get a train at Cannon Street that gets me home without changing for eight fifteen. Bit boring travelling on my own, but I'm plodding on with these book, and re...

RE: Train times did not work out well at all

I like Drupal too - it 'kinda 'just works'. Probably lots of code to write if you want to funk it up a bit though. You can try out a demo of it here at the marvellous 'Open Source CMS' site.Also like TextPattern, as you know, though the developers se...

Pictures of Orson

Pictures here of the Orson gig at the LCH on Monday night...

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aha, maybe it was you

just seen the 47 in the username again, could be jsut a coincidence...

RE: Fellenberg College, 4 Church Street, Folkestone

Church Street is in the old part of Folkestone, by St Eanswythe's church, I would guess the building is likely to be still there, though that might be where the primary school is now. When I get a chance I'll go down there and have a look, maybe take...

Harry Clarke at the V&A

Well spotted Mum and Dad, there is a Harry Clarke at the Victoria and Albert museum:Harry Clarke was one of the great masters of 20th-century stained glass. He trained in his father's studio and at the Metropolitan Art School in Dublin, which gave hi...

Good work on the blog!

Job hunting is going slowly. Or maybe it's me that's slow.

Tunbridge Wells Forum

My favourite band of the time, one of my few visits to Kent "before".

Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

New Cross Venue

Before I lived in New Cross, didn't really know where it was. We thought we could get a tube there (it was not running) and walked back to Waterloo after...
Rated 3.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Camden Falcon

I bootlegged this gig, the audio's complete with a trip to the toilet part way through...

Rated 5.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Portsmouth Guildhall

EMF

Portsmouth Guildhall

Not 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......