2010 on Ricky Moorhouse

Treasure Island

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:07:26 +0000

This afternoon we took the girls to the New Theatre Royal to watch Treasure Island, thanks to winning tickets in their twitter competition.

The set was really impressive with so many different things to spot with Abi before the show started, and had a fantastic ship's bridge, which doubled as the tavern entrance.

The show started with the beating of a drum and a fiddle player on stage, then the musicians took over and it developed into a big opening number, a combination which returned several times throughout, making great use of rhythmic elements intertwining with music from the excellent musicians.

Recreating swipe to reveal in HTML, CSS and JS

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:19:35 +0000

One of the things I really like about the interface in Tweetie / Twitter for iPhone is being able to swipe a tweet to reveal actions beneath it. This is my attempt to recreate it using HTML, CSS3 and Javascript. The main swiping action seems to work nicely, but to complete it, I'd like to add a bit more bounciness, a sound effect on swipe (using ?) and have better handling of non-swipe actions.

10/10/10 10:10

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:31:22 +0000

10/10/10 10:10 - where I was:

Review: Surprised by Grace

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:50:52 +0000

Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels by Tullian Tchividjian

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Very clear and challenging look at the book of Jonah, showing us that the gospel is not just for those who haven't yet heard it but something that we as Christians need to keep coming back to. The book of Jonah points us to God and how he deals with Jonah's rebellion and ultimately our own rebellion.

MySQL Locking

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:17:56 +0000

After experimenting a bit with MySQL locking today, I thought I'd make a note of what I'd discovered:

To create a lock, you need to use:

<code>LOCK TABLES table1 [READ |WRITE], table2 [READ |WRITE]</code>

READ is used to stop other people changing the table while you read from it. WRITE is used to stop other people reading the table while you write to it.

Once you have issued a LOCK TABLES statement, you will not have access to any tables you didn't include.

Jonah Header

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:39:57 +0000

Our new Momentum devotional series on Jonah started today - here's a glimpse of my header design.

Recover from "Failed to open the relay log"

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:17:12 +0000

If you find that after rebooting your MySQL slave it stops replicating with the master and you see the "Failed to open the relay log" error in the logs it is probably caused by MySQL putting it's relay logs in /var/run by default, which gets cleared out on boot.

To fix this, you need to change the location MySQL uses for the logging by adding the following line to the [mysqld] section of /etc/my.cnf

Drawing of me

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:20:17 +0000

Abi drew this for me. She says I'm not a monster, I just have my teeth out!

Self portrait

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:47:45 +0000

A traced picture on my iPhone, styled and touched up a bit for my twitter avatar and if you look closely, you can find it on my blog too... I'm really liking Adobe Ideas for quick sketches, so there might well be more pictures of family and friends coming soon!

Monster #2

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:00:01 +0000

Same as #1 this was sketched in Adobe Ideas and finished in Sumo paint. I will give them names eventually, but for now Abi wants to call this one "princess bird"

Monster #1

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:40:39 +0000

This is Monster #1, his outline was drawn in Adobe Ideas on the iPhone, and then the colouring was added using Sumo Paint

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:56:35 +0000

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.

Edward V Berard

Substitute fruit

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 08:17:51 +0000

Laura: Would you like some raspberries? Abi: I don't like raspberries. Can you get me ... erm ... a carrot instead? Laura: How about a banana? Abi: Oh Yeah! (excitedly)

Peacock

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:01:49 +0000

Whilst browsing through my pictures on Flickr, Abi saw this and said:

"I always wished I could have a pet peacock"

Only load jQuery if not already present

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:01:59 +0000

Very useful method of ensuring jQuery is loaded before running the code that needs it - from How to build a web widget (using jQuery) - Alex Marandon

[js] /******** Load jQuery if not present *********/ if (typeof jQuery === "undefined" || jQuery.fn.jquery !== '1.4.2') { var script_tag = document.createElement('script'); script_tag.setAttribute("type","text/javascript"); script_tag.setAttribute("src", "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js") script_tag.onload = main; // Run main() once jQuery has loaded script_tag.onreadystatechange = function () { // Same thing but for IE if (this.readyState == 'complete' || this.readyState == 'loaded') main(); } document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(script_tag); } else { main(); } [/js]

Javascript Key Codes

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:06:01 +0000

37: left

38: up

39: right

40: down

Doh!

Fri, 28 May 2010 09:47:06 +0000

Jessica was reaching for Laura's iPod

"You can't play with the iPod, you're too small"

Jessica: "Doh!"

Useful Ubuntu Stuff

Mon, 24 May 2010 13:50:13 +0000

This post is a dumping ground for useful Ubuntu bits and pieces that aren't worth a full post on their own.

Useful Packages

Lookit - captures screenshots and upload them to a specified server, then copies the URL to the clipboard - ppa:lookit/ppa
Teatime - simple timer, in a Unity launcher
Giver - simple file sharing within the same network - install
Docky - nice dock - install To get the file browser working nicely with the dock, you need to:

NAS Hacking

Mon, 10 May 2010 21:06:51 +0000

A while back, we close to filling up the partition on our desktop machine with photos, so I decided to get a second hard drive. In the end, instead of a hard drive, I decided to by the WD My Book World Edition which is a basic Linux server with a 1TB hard drive.

Here's my notes on what I've done with it so far:

Enable ssh
Install optware
Install some useful optware packages (e.g. cron, perl etc)

Okehampton Extended Services Website

Fri, 07 May 2010 16:29:28 +0000

Cauliflower

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:09:40 +0000

I don't like cauliflower. It's too white and I can't see it.

Abi (holding a piece of cauliflower)

Restore Default Panels

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:08:31 +0000

Been using these commands quite a bit recently as I experiment with moving the panels about.

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel pkill gnome-panel

from Watching the Net

Wow

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:33:09 +0000

Octipens

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:05:02 +0000

While drawing aliens with Abi, I drew this octipens

Delete directories older than 90 days

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:25:16 +0000

find /var/log/hostdb/* -type d -mtime +90 -exec rm -rf {} ;

-type d only look at directories, f would be files -mtime +90 modified time greater than 90 days ago

Import key into apt

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:09:13 +0000

wget -q http://tools.hursley.ibm.com/repo/pubkey -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Load CSV data into MySQL

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:20:58 +0000


    load data local infile 'export.csv' into table table_name
    fields terminated by ','
    enclosed by '"'
    lines terminated by 'n'
    (field_list)