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Just got this from Andy:Just checked my latest current account statement but I'm not quite sure what the last transaction is as I don't speak German? Any ideas?At least no-one in the bank'll figure it out as they all speak English......

Exhibition of artefacts

There's a Titanic exhibition opening at the Science museum next week...

OLD STUFF!

There's a Titanic exhibition opening at the Science museum next week... My Grandad's cousin (or is it second cousin?) Charles Valentine Clarke was lost on the Titanic....

Stoke Newington Action

No Stokey action for several days now, stayed in last night, tonight going to Highbury Garage for *cough* some band *cough* because Corporation:Blend are supporting and a chum is involved in some managerial way...On the bus on the way in this morning...

Saint Rose

Missed Corporation:Blend last night, got to the Garage too late, but Saint Rose were the middle band on, and were quite MOR, but much better than King Adora... a poor mans Manics, when the Manics were a poor mans Guns'n'Roses......

TRAPPED!

I had a JOYOUS afternoon yesterday... I was working from home, nipped out for some lunch, got into our communal hallway and realised I'd left my keys in the flat - both doors were locked needing a key to get out, so I was shut in the hallway until ou...

Titanic Exhibition was good

You get a boarding card on the way in, a copy of one that would have been given to a real Titanic passenger, with their details on. They only printed up 80 men and 80 women, and though the guy on the door let us have a look through them all, we could...

Database corruption again

Fixed it and wrote a script that checks every ten minutes if something's corrupt, if it is it fixes it... should have done this a long time ago. Going to be wroking on all day.Tweak to the getGigs script that lists gigs on popex, adding an automatic ...

Passione D'Amore

Went to Ryan's last night, but ended up eating in Il Bacio, had a different pizza a Passione D'Amore, aubergine, avocado, capers and mint, very tasty too.Went to the Red Bull Flug Tag thing in Hyde Park today, MAN ALIVE was it hot, and the transport ...

Congestion Charge

What a pain, just sorted the congestion charge for my brother in law who is driving up to London and has decided to cut through. He's a registered disabled so he should be exempt, BUT to qualify for the exemption he has to fill in a form and send it ...

How to make a pirate radio station

This 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....

Keira Knightly Masturbation Stories

No, not really, but I just got a search referral saying that, nice!

More virus action

Started getting hit with virusses via a "list owner" email address - I am admin for the popex punters list, and have bene hit a couple of times at the address that's associated with that... I guess every owner of every list is susceptible, all you ne...

Pioneer Soundtracks

How much is Pioneer Soundtracks the best album ever?(get it on ebay)...

Inspiration

Decided to sort out a work page today that was taking 15 seconds or so to load, that's not good! This is only on one project, and it's one I'm not working on any more, but it's still not good to know something I've written is so crappy... it's not hu...

International Talk Like A Pirate Day

ARRR!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 ...

Sturgeons Tradional Camden Town Bread Pudding

As passed from my friend Neil, originally from Freda Sturgeon:Soak a bowlful of stale bread over night, squeeze out as much water as possible the next day, and add half a pound of cake fruit, 2 tbs sugar, 1 tbs black treacle (VITAL) and a teaspoon of...

Harry Clarke auction frenzy

Harry Clarke auction is kicking off, Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales, lots of bids and still 6 days to go......

Darkness cancellations

The Darkness have been forced to cancel their gigs in Folkestone (this evening, Monday 20 October) and Portsmouth (tomorrow, Tuesday 21 October).The shows, at the Leas Cliff Hall and Portsmouth Pyramids, have been cancelled due to lead singer Justin ...

Remote light switch has arrived

If you never hear from me again it is because I've tried to do some mains electrics by myself and it's gone horribly wrong. Dad helped replace the dry liner that I broke on the bathroom light switch, it seemed to go smoothly, we can isolate the power...

Clare's Graduation

Went well, got some good pictures I hope. There was no celebrity honorary degree, I was hoping for something like that to liven the ceremony up. A chap called Sir Kit McMahon was made a fellow of Birkbeck though.The building the ceremony is in - Sena...

RE: Barfly changes

It's going to end up another half day of popex, and half day of Barfly again... have tried chasing up Supervision Management to inspire them to use the calendar...

SSX3

Cool, mate has just got so got SSX3 for the PS2, and it can be played as a network game, so got to get networked up and also check out this step by step guide to network PS2ing......

Infiltration

Nice site here, infiltration.org, about going places you're not supposed to go, looks like there will be some good reading there.

Competition Crazy

Working on my competition script today to make sure it's up to speed, have had a couple of competitions this week, and am sending out an extra mail to promote this one for Journey Shoes / Electric Soft Parade, got one pair of shoes and five pairs of ...

Flat inspection

mysql> select noMail, count(*) from punter group by noMail ;+--------+----------+| noMail | count(*) |+--------+----------+| 0 | 7296 || 1 | 9910 || 500 | 1 || 501 | 5 || 550 | 907 || 551 | 3 ||...

IM Communication Error error code = 200

I just want to renew my oyster card, and oystercard.com is tossing about, grr...Got to spend all day today making sure the listings mail still works on the new Barfly system, and flipping over to the new admin system too... ...

Supervision

That's nice, the guy from Supervision Management who seemed reluctant at first to accept the wonderous new technology that is my calendar system is over the moon with it now. Also the Barfly stuff seems to have settled down, it's just really design r...

Syndication for the IPOD

I've made this weblog available for my IPOD, here... not sure how useful that will be, but I just wanted to test out IPOD's HTML ability on something, and it gave me a break from present wrapping.Got quite a lot more to do in terms of size checking, ...

106 Diversion

The 106 goes nowhere near our stop now on the way home, it goes Church Street, High Street, and then off down Northwold Road, that's hardly even in Stokey at all... Would have been interesting to walk that way, if it wasn't so wet and cold, there are...

The Dark

Razzle of Hanoi Rocks previous punk band. Plus Sedated, Mutilate and Conditional Discharge.

Marillion

Manic Street Preachers

CANCELLED, 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.

That Petrol Emotion

Coldplay

Coldplay Barfly session was today, I was there... cosy.

Elvis Costello

and the attractions

Terrorvision

Europeans and how we live

Something to do with John Otway and also Steve Hogarth - the same one who took over from Fish in Marillion?

Catya Maré - CANCELLED

Danish sensation voted no.1 on Myspace will be coming to La Vue restraunt and Wine bar to dazzle people with her classially fused sounds and her violin. Tickets are only £12 and available from 0871 918 0949 or online at LSP99.co.uk...

Motley Crue

plus Skid Row, White Lion and Lemmy...

New Order

Pissed down with rain. Crystal, Transmission, Regret, Ceremony, 60 Miles An Hour, Atmosphere, Brutal, Close Range, She's Lost Control, Bizarre Love Triangle, True Faith, Temptation, Love Will Tear Us Apart, (Encore) Digital (with John Simm), Blue Mon...

Location Location

Oliver in London

Oliver TicketsOliver is the new spectacular musical at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Starring Rowan Atkinson as Fagin, the musical features a sensational score full...

The Darkness

First time I saw them, at Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception.

WASP

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......

Transvision Vamp

Second time seeing them here, Sinead O'Connor was there too.

VH1 Divas

Chaka Khan, Celine Dion, Mary J Blige, Whitney Houston, Beyonce, Jewel, Lisa Marie Presley, Ashanti, Shania Twain, Pat Benatar, Isley Brothers, Queen Latifah, Sharon Osbourne and STEVIE WONDER!...

Darkness album launch

With free bar and rock karaoke! Just found invites and a promotional sick bag, was I that bad?

The Black Crowes

Another freebie of some description. Noel and Liam Gallagher were there.

Gene

A work freebie, we nearly didn't get in because I couldn't prove I was who I was claiming to be (I wasn't). A charity contribution sorted it out...

McAlmont and Butler

Free thing through work, a gig for competition winners originally billed as being Paul Weller, actually turned out more interestingly as these guys and also Space

Marion

Dubstar

plus Definition of Sound

Essential Festival

Super Furry Animals, Kula Shaker, Menswear, Echobelly, Marion, Chumbawamba, Bis and more... missed David Devant, but I did trek there with 16 people in my bus....

Terrorvision

with Mutha's Day Out and Valve. Sure the last Portsmouth Venue Campaign show that I did was Terrorvision, but these dates still don't line up......

Carnival

Inspiral Carpets, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Boo Radleys, Chumbawamba, Elastica, Terrorvision and more

The Primitives

Was the Town & Country still then, Pale Saints supported again, and Fatima Mansions too I think.

Leaderboard Pool Challenge

Trophy & cash prizes, £5 registration fee.

Live Music - The Mercurials

Live Spanish/jazz music from the Mercurials at Tim's Vino & Tapas, 3a West Terrace, Folkestone. o Time: from 8:00pm. o Admission: free - priority seating given to diners. o For further information or to book a table please call 01303 249...