Congratulations on the successful completion of the 102 course and now also the SIT Certificate in Organic Horticulture. Overall your work has been excellent as usual and it has been a pleasure having you study. Your work is always well done and great to be completed ahead of time like this (much appreciated at this … Continue Reading
Just a couple of links I felt like sharing. Theme: Inspiration http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-nice-and-beautiful-blog-design/ – Inspiration for the new blog http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ – Inspiration for business (Seth Godin’s blog) http://unclutterer.com/ – Inspiration for life http://eco-officegals.com/ – Inspiration for green business http://community.livejournal.com/saucydwellings/ – Inspiration for my future house http://nzangels.com/ – Inspiration for my startup http://veggiepatchreimagined.blogspot.com/ – Inspiration for my … Continue Reading
A while ago I was given a bag of soap nuts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapindus). I have just finally gotten around to making up some liquid soap from them. The instructions that come with them say to use a cup of soap nuts to a litre of water and simmer for 20 minutes, which I followed. Oddly enough, … Continue Reading
Today I asked in #rubyonrails: How can I have a model with a text field and have that text field in multiple languages? Epic thanks to Radar for the answer: http://frozenplague.net/2009/11/scoping-by-locales/
Just looking through some old blog posts and GitHub archives this evening… and came across SettingsLogic. Now, the guy that wrote this has done some awesome stuff such as SearchLogic and others. SettingsLogic looks pretty similar to my original AppConfig way of doing things, which I like. What I still want, however, is a database-driven … Continue Reading
Right. So when I get around to it I am going to put cobblestones in around the dock area. I like the way that this guy has done it: http://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22447#p279619 I also think that I will put the area including the goods yard in this configuration, that way it will include the shunter shed, turntable … Continue Reading
For future reference really: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Controller::loadModel(’Student’); $students = array(); foreach ($courseStudents as $crsstd) { $students[] = array($crsstd, $this->Student->find(’first’, array(’conditions’ => array(’Student.id’ => $crsstd[’student_id’])))); } function compare($x, $y) { if ( $x[1][’Student’][’lastName’] == $y[1][’Student’][’lastName’] ) return 0; else if ( … Continue Reading
Just thought I would put these in for info… Lighting with DCC (the reason I got the LEDs etc.) http://brian-lambert.co.uk/DCC.htm#DCC Lighting A DCC Lighting Kit HowTo (Where I got the idea from) http://www.modelrailforum.com/forums/index.php?autocom=custom&page=DCC-Concepts-Light-Module Modelling of Sodor (Thomas the Tank) http://www.pegnsean.net/~railwayseries/ffarquhar.htm Model Railroad track plans (Might use the single car turntable on the wharf, perhaps a … Continue Reading
Just went to the model shop for a little while today… (yeah right!) and I got a couple of parts for when I do get the layout built. Firstly, the bridge for the figure 8: Secondly, a T.A.R.D.I.S: Good thing is, the bridge is practically exactly what I need, and the T.A.R.D.I.S satisfies my geek … Continue Reading