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Ammobox Forge

Sun, 07/12/2009 - 20:55 — sym

Here are some photos of the construction of my ammobox forge.

I got the ammobox from the army-surplus up the road from me. The air pipe inside is an old scaffold pole, the plate half way up the forge is an old side panel from a transit van.

It’s not clear from the photos, but there is a removable plate resting on the top of the Tuyere, with holes drilled to allow the air though but stop large pieces of coke falling though.

T-Shirt request

Mon, 03/17/2008 - 21:32 — sym

I would love a T-Shirt that says:

“Pareidolia is in the eyes of the beholder”

I’m not sure I’d ever wear it though.

There's a change in the weather

Fri, 03/07/2008 - 14:39 — sym

For there’s a change in the weather
There’s a change in the sea
So from now on there’ll be in change in me
My walk will be different, my talk and my name
Nothin’ about me is going to be the same
I’m goin’ to change my wayof livin’
If that ain’t enough
Then I’ll change the way that I strut my stuff

CSS Super selectors

Tue, 03/04/2008 - 23:31 — sym

Something I would find useful for CSS in the future. Maybe in version 4 (due some time in 2100?).

#content { p { color:#999999; } a { text-decoration:none; color:#333333; } a:hover { text-decoration:underline color:#666666; } }

In other words, CSS super classes / IDs. This would be really good for situations when you have a load of definitions that all target the same ID or class at the root (like the #content ID above). This could be extended to include files:

Frosty morning

Wed, 12/12/2007 - 18:31 — sym

The photos aren’t the best, but this was the view from my front door at about 7.20 this morning :)

frosty morning

frosty morning - sunrise

Root path based CSS in drupal

Mon, 12/10/2007 - 18:18 — sym

Sometimes I have wanted to make some simple changes to a drupal theme based on the current root path. The sections module does this, but I wanted a simpler way of changing elements in the CSS based on the current root path.

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) { switch ($hook) { case 'page': if (module_exists('path')) { $alias = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']); if ($alias != $_GET['q']) { foreach (explode('/', $alias) as $path_part) { $classes[] = $path_part; } }

New Hudson bike

Sat, 12/01/2007 - 16:36 — sym

I got this New Husdon bike the other day, it’s in a bad way but I want to try and restore it. I think I’ll need to rechrome the handle bars and other chromed parts; they are very rusty. I’ll respray the black after sanding it all down - it should be a fun project!

Polar Bears for Christmas

Thu, 11/09/2006 - 23:32 — sym

Today Jo and I went in to Newbury to go and see an exhibition on at the Corn exchange called “The Best of Newbury”. It’s basically a collection of photos of local people who are well known in the community.

As I’m quite new here I didn’t know many of the people, but there were a few including David Rendel. It seems like quite a good idea, although I wouldn’t want to decide who is ‘important’ enough to get in the gallery!

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