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How to get your best projects at work cancelled
23 November 2006
Read morePretty much the worst thing that can happen to any geek is for a project they are working on to be cancelled. If its something they have already put a lot of work into and believe in, then it isn’t surprising that it hurts them. I think most of …
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Crochet Dialects
21 November 2006
Read moreI love to crochet, and to collaborate with others about it. To see what others have made and to show my own creations and tell what I learned along the way. Knitting groups have been around forever I think, and it seems likely to me that people have always shared …
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House: The Sequel
17 November 2006
Read moreThis post is a few days overdue but we’ve bought a house! You can read the saga of the last time we had an offer accepted if you like.
The house has three bedrooms, a garage, and gardens back and front. Its a decent size, has original fireplaces in …
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Christmas Crochet
17 November 2006
Read moreIn case anyone didn’t follow the conversation, my friend fairyJo has learned to crochet from some instructions in my baby blanket post. Wondering what she might do next, here are some ideas for the season:
How about a crochet snowflake ? Actually I might have to try one of these …
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Coffee Politics
08 November 2006
Read moreThere are some coffee politics happening in my office right now1. I’m not going to write about that though, at least until it blows over. I thought I’d share a couple of previous coffee politics experiences though.
Spare-hand Drink
At one workplace where I had a temporary …
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Work Hygiene
07 November 2006
Read moreSomeone in my office moved desks today (someone left last week so there’s a little reshuffle going on as every takes another step along the hardware/seating improvement path). She1 took one look at her new seat last week and came in today with J-cloth and cleaning fluid …
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The boat is out
07 November 2006
Read moreWhich is used in the same sense as “the jury’s out”, meaning the decision hasn’t been made yet, or the outcome is unknown.
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Intended use of HTTP POST
03 November 2006
Read moreI read this article from Elliotte Rusty Harold yesterday, and its kind of stuck in my mind [1]. He writes about what the different types of HTTP requests were actually intended for; the difference between the verbs GET and POST. His point is that to view information, GET should be …
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Super Dooper Opera Search Feature
01 November 2006
Read moreOpera has sneaked in a fabulous new search feature – and I missed it completely! In looking up how to set up some shortcut searches, I stumbled across this and thought I’d share.
Opera 9 (and I think earlier versions) comes with a preconfigured search function, where you type the …
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PuTTY from command-line
01 November 2006
Read moreFollowing my brush with RSI, I’ve become very mouse-averse, which is difficult on a windows computer! There are a couple of shortcuts that I use to launch programs, mostly revolving around use of the Start->Run dialog (press Windows and R and it just pops up).
PuTTY can have …
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Daisy Scarf
29 October 2006
Read moreIts been a craft-tastic few weeks lately, I’ve another almost-finished item to post after this one! Here are the photos of the mohair scarf I recently made for my boyfriend’s mum’s birthday
And the closeup of the motifs (there were eleven daisy squares altogether):
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Two Beef Slow-cooker Recipes
26 October 2006
Read moreI often put the slow cooker on when I know that there are going to be people coming and going and wanting feeding at different times in an evening. I usually do a fairly standard chicken casserole but the last couple of weeks I’ve experiemented with beef. One of …