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HTML5 form input types in CodeIgniter
Having made the switch over to HTML5 and now beginning to work with CodeIgniter, I found it useful to create a helper file providing the HTML5 input types and allowing them to be called in the same manner as the older input types.
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Schrödinger’s Fold
In 1935, the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger posed a question to illustrate a problem with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics when applied to everyday objects. The ‘experiment’ proposed was that a cat is placed inside a sealed steel box with a radioactive source, a Geiger counter and a flask of hydrocyanic acid. If the…
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Finishing off the tyres
My tyres were on their way out, so with the replacements waiting to be put on, it was time to have some fun killing off the old ones.
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Lessons to be learned this week
On Monday, I took my car to the garage to have its new ECU mapped. So Wispy and I headed over to drop it off. Things didn’t start well when I realised after we left the garage that having given them my mobile phone number, I had left both my phones in the car. We…
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New toy!
I am now the proud owner of a shiny new (well refurbed) Canon EOS 400D. So far I have been playing around with it and just seeing what a difference having a decent camera makes. Already I have been impressed with the results that can be produced just using the presets available. Needless to say…
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Palmersport Driving Day
Having arrived back home from Austin and SxSW, the following day held in store a once in a lifetime experience that no amount of jetlag would keep me away from.
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Azlan and Andy Learn to Fly
Ok so this is quite old now, but I’ve finally gotten round to editing the video and uploading it. A couple of years ago, Andy and I were coincidentally given flights at Airkix as presents. Here’s the video:
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Showing off at Craggy Island
Every week I head over to Craggy Island for a bit of indoor rock climbing. This time, one of my friends decided to film me during one of my daft climbs. Shame it was only filmed on a mobile phone and he got it at an angle. Excuse the knees on the volume…
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Winter Warmer 2008
Wow! What a turnout! Despite the icy conditions and an early start yesterday morning, 70 cars turned up at Ockham Common for our annual Winter Warmer run down to Hayling Island…
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HereticSun.com and the Winter Warmer
A lot has gone on since I last posted here…