Working from homeFirst day went fine, got everything done, need to get a new chair though, this isn't that comfortable. Got to go back to work tomorrow for a meeting, am I sacked? Hope not.Found a Milo Manara website , was inspired to search by the rather saucy poste... And back to workmoved deskcleared 1200 odd mails, mostly spamCaught up with popex admin, adding bands, processing charts etcFixed up popex error pages, new server handles errors differently, and we need to serve ads on error pages...Tweaked popex gig mail, seems to ... Working from homepopex admin, including reviewing, deleting accounts, answering queriesExpanding popex as part of Jason's projectStreamlining page generating pages as part of the expansion, make more content in less timeImproving ticket mail thing, very excitingLots ... Working from homeMostly just popex admin todayIntegrating more Fly content into popex, Barfly listings this time, writing a script to output it in the same format that Wayahead and Ticketmaster do that I already process... won't earn any money, but it's a bit of cros... Darkness December datesSMART, new Darkness tour:[quote]The Darkness @ [[Plymouth Pavilion, Plymouth, Devon (Wed 3 Dec)The Darkness @ Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, Dorset (Thu 4 Dec)The Darkness @ Brixton Academy, Brixton, London (Fri 5 Dec)The Darkness @ C... News nightChannelfly was on newsnight last night, a feature about MP3's They interviewed some of my cow-orkers, very exciting. Shame they did it all on Friday when I wasn't here, otherwise I might have been on TV too. Looking forward to getting an mpeg rip of ... VirusEverything went mad here yesterday with fallout from this virus, IT manager Andy was stuck here all night. Feeling a bit safe as I'm not using Windows, but have to check out this LINUX variant, hopefully everything's cool though. Have got millions of... Fireworks were nice, and quite impressiveWe watched from home, which was even nicer... did you win the Wii?Reading FestivalI think this is my first non Reading Festival bank holiday weekend in ten years, poor Cinderella left at work. Got only 3.5 days holiday left to last all year, might have a weekend in France next month, and might need some to pad around Christmas... ... SuedeSuede play London, 12th of December, bit steep though... do I do nothing but complain about costs? Am I mean? At least it's a proper gig that we have a chance of getting tickets to, after the fiasco that was the ICA.Latitude Festival 2012: Weekend in... Working from homeFixing up the bad secondary DNS entry for popex at Network Solutions and sorting out some of the dodgy / missing access logs. Popex hasn't been reporting on refererals properly since I introduced the "unique user ID" cookie, though it's not that dire... looks like that works in IE!Had better change that cookie to be encrypted...PopExIntroducing popex, popex is a free music trading game, based on a stock exchange. You're not trading MP3's or anything, you're buying and selling pretend shares in bands, with pretend money - it's more fun than it sounds! I started it sometime in 199... Got the IPOD working!And now it's stopped again.The joy of workPut these neat easy-html buttons to make images, links, ticket links etc on the Barfly "show artist" pageFixed up the listings mail so that it goes out to different people on different daysA popex bug fix, portfolio's not appearing properlyInvestigat... More redesignGoign to do more stuff on the redesign today and REALLY finish this damn admin system... the big stumbling block is making one page that lets a user easily edit lots of database entries at once... I've always stuck to a "one page - one row from the d... Belle and Sebastian ticketsLets see if I can do the same trick I've done with The Darkness, by reposting all Belle and Sebastian dates up here as they go on sale...Belle And Sebastian @ USHER HALL, EDINBURGH (Sun 14 Dec)More tickets on my Belle and Sebastian tickets page...Bit... Three wheeled off road baby buggiesThis is why there are so many of them; according to BBC newsIn London's Stoke Newington - the new Islington - there are said to be more children under five than anywhere else in EuropeLove how it refers to el presidente as "Labour's Tony Blair" too..... 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, ... BarflyBarfly are part of the company that I work for, they run venues in Camden (AKA The Monarch), Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool and York. I've made a calendar system for them that updates their website, and am currently expanding this.In a bizarre small wor... The FlyThe Fly magazine started out as the listings magazine for the Barfly, with added editorial, and now it's the second biggest music mag in the country (in terms of audited circulation, not physical space - it'sA5).... RE: Barfly changesIt'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...Looks like it almost workedI have 300 odd MP3's of almost zero length, tagged up here, that make some sort of gig guide, if I transfer it onto the IPOD... it's harder to read than I thought, and the venue didn't go into the composer tag as I had planned... Clearly needs more w... Further work on listings highlights todayShould there be a highlight without an associated gig? Quite possibly, but need to check... need to check up the listings for Order Mag today too...Decided NOT to have a highlight without a gig, can add it in later if need be... news stories don't ne... sendmail bounce handler works!I'm pleased to report that this works nicely, got thousands of messages today saying "would have deleted this account", so time to really put it into action, disabling accounts, setting them not to receive mail etc...Had a few drinks and some champio... Ongoing Excel / PERL stuffThe PERL Excel project is coming along nicely, it takes a long time to parse an Excel file, they're enormous... I've been working with a month's worth of gigs, just in partner venues in the UK, and that comes to about 1.1MB, so I opened it in Excel a... Good work sos!XXXGood workIf you put them up on the web, post a link to them here, I'd really like to see them.I think the Ordinary Boys were jammed into that bill in order to put them in front of a crowd and some journalists, as a little showcase for them.... Kosso bigged up on techcrunchThey call him a seesmic.com clone but they like him... I thought phreadz.com was still a secret actually. For the uninitiated, it's like a chat room / message board, but based around your webcam. So many people have them these days that it makes sens... Back to workWe have to have a security guard in over the christmas period as there are so few people about, I was hoping for a minute there he wasn't going to let me in... other than that no problems getting to work today.Played a bit of SSX 3 and Return of the ... Reading Festival 1999Blur headlined, not a very strong lineup I don't think. I was working mostly, and managed to lose my first mobile phone that work lent me.The PrimitivesPlus the Pale Saints, I later went on to work with their lead singer at nme.comThe AvalanchesWent with an old workmate, got drunk before the gig and I think I went home as soon as the band came on.GeneA 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 ButlerFree thing through work, a gig for competition winners originally billed as being Paul Weller, actually turned out more interestingly as these guys and also SpaceGreen 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.Channelfly Xmas PartyBefore I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonderstuff early, doh... There was a ruckus and the police sent us all home.Firework Partyplus Annie Hates Cordial and Savage Henry. Local!Amazing Windmillsplus The Firework Party and Hooch. LOCAL!Lighthouse FamilyOops, why was I here, when the Super Furries were down the road? I was working it, but still could have planned that better...... Mike Flowers PopsSo who was it actually played the Pyramids this night? I know I was at the Mike Flowers Pops one, I remember holding the door open to a radio reporter so they could report from the gig using the payphone in the lobby, as their satellite phone wasn't ... Highlights of new graduate work 2005 Kent Institute of Art and DesignSurrey Institute of Art and Design and theEcole des Beaux Arts, ValenciennesA selection of work from students completing their BA (or equivalent) at these three institutions made by independent curator, Clare Smith... Damo Suzuki's Network, Guests10.00One Night Of Queen, Gary Mullen & The WorksLouis Tussaud's Waxworks6As I See It� - Poetry and RhymeIf you've ever had your breath taken away by a stunning view or walked through a wood in autumn and felt inspired to put pen to paper, this could be the exhibition for you. "As I See It" is a collection of works by local poet Adrian Williams, who fou... Louis Tussaud's Waxworks6Louis Tussaud's WaxworksReadingMy first gig with nme.com, I started work there that weekend. I left part way through the worst ever Stone Roses performance (OK, the only time I saw them).... SoundRoutes Vocal Workshop: MotherwellAs I See It� - Poetry and RhymeIf you've ever had your breath taken away by a stunning view or walked through a wood in autumn and felt inspired to put pen to paper, this could be the exhibition for you. "As I See It" is a collection of works by local poet Adrian Williams, who fou... 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