Archive for February, 2006
Crash.net is running a story that suggests Club, Abbey and Bridge at Silverstone might be turned into a housing estate as part of the redevelopment plans. This would be a criminal error - the circuit represents a rich motor racing heritage and should not be ripped up just to line the pockets of a property development company.
As well as this, housing on site would no doubt cause problems with whinging muppets like at Monza - complaining about the noise levels.
I shall be keeping an eye on this story - I doubt I would go back to Silvertone if they actually do this. If the goverment / lottery etc would pull their finger out and support the full range of UK sport / culture all ths could be avoided.
February 20th, 2006
The result is in, and we have a complete smoking ban in England in all enclosed public spaces from Summer 2007. Its a novelty to agree with the Goverment for once!
I personally support this fully - smoking is damaging the health of everybody in pubs, clubs and restaurants. Several times recently I have had to move around a pub die to someone smoking and removing my ability to breathe properly. When I worked in a bar the smoky atmosphere was one of the main reasons I left in the end.
It is a basic human right to do as you like with your body - but in this case, the actions of smokers are having a direct physical effect on those of us who manage to go through life without getting addicted to an expensive way to die earlier. If you want to kill yourself on the instalment plan do it out of my airspace. We have to share our pubs and restaurants, I cant see a plan to have smoking and non smoking places ever working. The final thing we now need to clear up is the clapping in irons of people who stand outside the front of the offices smoking around the doors and leaving fag ends everywhere.
The only problem I see is that I would rather see this put in practice tommorrow rather than next year.
February 15th, 2006
From my recent walk over Crikle Crags and Bowfell, the lighting caught my eye. We were well above the cloud base and you can see some of the other mountains poking through the cloud.
February 13th, 2006
Just signed up for the pipeline card - which should offer discounts of 5-10p per litre on fuel. No idea how this will pan out, how it will work etc, but its got to be worth a try for the sake of punching my email address into a form. Its based on the same ideas as the corparate fuel cards - buying in bulk for a discount. I imagine if the guy who thought this up actually gets the scheme running, he stands to make a mint on commission - and I wish him luck.
Worth a look if you dont like the cost of fuel in this country which I guess is everybody!
Via craig.
February 10th, 2006
This theme you see here, Blix, doesnt have the sidebar shown by default on pages. This doesn’t suit me, as I need the navigation that lives in the sidebar for my pages. Blix is setup for a few pages which automagically appear in the horizontal menu under the header graphic - fine for some, but I will end up with 20-30 pages in several levels.
Since I couldnt find a great deal of help from the wordpress codex / forums etc, I thought I would write the process down here for posterity.
2 Things need changing to add a sidebar to the blix pages -
1.) Header Template
change the following line
<body><div id="container"< ?php if (is_page() && !is_page("archives")) echo " class=\"singlecol\""; ?>></div></body>
You want to add a # in front of the if statement to stop it executing -
<body><div id="container"< ?php # if (is_page() && !is_page("archives")) echo " class=\"singlecol\""; ?>></div></body>
This prevents the content div getting the class “singlecol” which is normally used to expand the main content div to take up all the available space, which would leave no room for the sidebar and break the layout.
2.) Pages Template
At the bottom of this file:
<!-- /content -->
< ?php get_footer(); ?>
Add the get sidebar code:
<!-- /content -->
< ?php get_sidebar(); ?>
< ?php get_footer(); ?>
At the most basic level thats it - you should have a sidebar on your pages. Right now it will be a little empty, as many of the sidebar features are inside if statements that only show on certain types of pages. You can either edit these or put seperate if statements to format the sidebar just for dispay on pages - its up to you.
February 9th, 2006
Just what I was looking for - nested menus for my pages in Wordpress. I have a lot of static content that needs to be ported over as a mixture of pages and blog posts from my old site (which is still hiding behind this blog).
I dont want a huge list of pages in the sidebar, what I wanted was just to display the main pages, and have sub-pages shown when you are on the parent page or other sub-page. Fold Page List Plugin does just that - and its a single php file to boot. I guess I missed it as I would not have called this folding - expanding or collapsing page menus possibly.
Go grab it here.
February 8th, 2006
A 9.5 mile loop around one of the most popular parts of the Lake District - Crinkle Crags and Bowfell above Langdale.
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