by christian | Jun 24, 2013 | Blog |
On 2nd February 1799, Elizabeth Woodcock was riding home to Histon from Cambridge market when in a raging blizzard (and apparently a little worse for drink) she came off her horse and was soon buried alive under the heavy snow. Trapped for eight days, she was finally...
by christian | May 13, 2013 | Music |
X:1 T:Jack The Horse Courser C:Trad. S:folktunefinder.com & Bernard Wrigley M:4/4 L:1 K:G G2 g2 d2 cB | cBAG F2 ED | GDGB AFED | GDGB AFED | G2 g2 d2 cB | cBAG F2 ED | c2 B A B2 AG | D2 F2 G4:| d2 g2 f2 ed | e2 fd c2 BA | dAdf e^cBA | dAdf e^cBA | d2 g2 f2 ed | e2...
by christian | May 13, 2013 | Music |
X: 273 T:Gee Ho Dobbin. JaW.272 M:6/8 Q:60 S:James Winder Ms, Lancashire, 1835-41 S:Bernard Wrigley R:Jig O:England A:Wyresdale,Lancashire H:1/8 K:D “Key Sig G in MS” A|FED AGF|BAG A2A|dcd Bcd|edc d2:| |:A|def Bcd|cBA B3 |d3 ABA|AGF GEF| G3 F2 A|AGF G2B|B2...
by christian | Apr 1, 2013 | Other Stuff |
No hallowed halls, no leafy ways No cloistered strolls no verdant fields Just concrete paths and freezing rain With a long walk there, then back again And, late each day, I’d get the cane From teachers freshly back from slaying The men who’d just laid down their guns...
by christian | Jan 24, 2013 | Work |
When debugging applications, it can be useful to see what’s going on in the database without referring to the code. In MySQL, you can use the information_schema database to get this information. here’s what I do: Select table_name, table_rows, update_time...
by christian | Dec 21, 2011 | Work |
I mainly use nawk to extract elements from a string where I know the position (eg to get just the filenames when running a grep and I’m just too lazy to remember the correct grep syntax). so, to extract field number x from strings in where the field separator...
by christian | Nov 21, 2011 | Work |
Very quick function to test a domain name is valid: function validDomain($domain) { // Test domain is actually valid if (preg_match(‘/^[a-z]+([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]+)?(.([a-z]+([a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]+)?)+)*$/i’, $domain)) { ...
by christian | Oct 23, 2011 | Genealogy |
Timeline 1815 Born on 21st November in Littleover, Derby, the son of Edward Woodward & Ann Green 1817 Christened on 6th July in Littleover 1820 Brother George born 1823 Wife Eliza Pikett born in Boston, Lincolnshire, daughter of John Pikett and Anne Bowser 1846...
by christian | Oct 23, 2011 | Genealogy |
Born 12 March 1808, Colyton, Devon, England, Died 23 March 1883, Ottery St Mary, Devon England. Charles Mayne (The ‘Down’ does not appear until his first marriage) was born the ilegitimate son of Francis Mayne nee Stedham in Colyton, Devon on 23 March...
by christian | Sep 23, 2009 | Blog |