The Wight Stuff

The Blackpool Mini Run 2007

2007-06-24T20:28:00.000Z

What a way to spend a Sunday! This mini run was fantastic.

We left our house at 7.15am, and arrived in Skipton at 8.30. Left Skipton in convoy and arrived in Preston to see the most mini's I have ever seen. Then went to Blackpool to take part in the Totally Transport show.

On the way how it absolutely chucked it down on the motorway, so the rubber glove really did it's job far better than expected.

Anyway, I have uploaded some pictures here: http://blog.thewightstuff.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=14

Enjoy :)

Preparation for the Wet? Blackpool Mini Run

2007-06-23T17:46:00.000Z

We've been having trouble recently with our Mini in the rain. As soon as there is heavy rain, the poor mini loses all power, and can only be driven in first gear.

Looking at the weather forecast, the blackpool mini run could well be a washout. We're in trouble....

After looking through posts at http://www.minifinity.com/ we have decided to "do the marigold" which involves cutting off the finger tips of a marigold, feeding the HT cables through them, and wrapping it over the dizzy cap. Considering the most challenging thing i've done to a car so far has been checking the dipstick, It seems to have gone on easily - lets hope tomorrow at the Mini run, it keeps it nice and dry.

Some before shots:

First thing to do was label the HT leads, so I put them back on the right spark plugs.

The dizzy cap which needs protecting from the elements.

The result:

Lets hope it works, if not the AA man's gonna give us some dodgy looks!

New Car

2007-05-13T12:53:00.000Z

New Team Parish Website

2007-04-05T00:14:00.000Z

Well, I finally started work on the big update for the Almondbury & Farnley Tyas Team Parish home page (www.almondbury.net).

A placeholder site was put up late last year using an old template as the master page, but despite being up to my head in work (moving house, moving jobs), I have had some strange inspiration to get it sorted out this week.

Here is a picture of the home page which will be used, and I hope to have the site code completed over easter.

Just need some content now....

Using body onload with ASP.net 2.0 MasterPages

2007-03-22T13:29:00.000Z

I was recently scratching my head trying to figure out how to use Master Pages with .net 2.0 and Visual Web Developer. There didn't seem to be an out-of-the-box way to do this, so this is how I did it.

MasterPage.master


...

<head>

  <asp:ContentPlaceHolder runat="server" id="Headers">

  </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
  <script language=javascript>
    function mp_onload()
    {
      if(window.body_onload != null)
      window.body_onload();
    }
  </script>
</head>
<body onload="mp_onload();">

...

This way, if i have a content page that may require an onload event then I just create a function called body_onload in Headers content area of each page that requires it.

Default.aspx


<asp:Content ID="Content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="Headers" Runat="Server">
  <script language="javascript">
    function body_onload()
    {
      //do something
    }
  </script>
</asp:Content>

Sulphur Hexafluoride

2007-03-21T23:44:00.001Z

I just gotta get myself some of this stuff. Wonder what would happen if you stick some water in it and a mini fogger?

Apparently, (well wikipedia say so),

Because the gas has a high density (six times more dense than air), it can be poured into open containers, like beakers and fishtanks. Moreover, light objects (e.g. made out of light wood or aluminium foil) can float on the gas.

Nice