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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Snapshot - State of the Onion

Apologies to Bloglines and Google Reader people, I cut the RSS feed to a summary to make it harder for thieving spammer weasels to steal my posts. Hope you like the rotating image at the top of the page (hit refresh to see the others). It's been a

Snail mail, for real

BBC News: 'Snail mail' blazes slow e-trail Muriel, Austin and Cecil are snails for the electronic age. The gastropods have been fitted with equipment to allow them to send e-mails on behalf of visitors to a website. Instead of instantaneous communication, sent messages will travel at 0.03mph

Ladytron

Back in March, Hubby surprised me with tickets to see one of my favourite bands, Ladytron. They were at the Pageant on Monday night with Datarock. We arrived at the Halo Bar early and were rewarded with first access passes, which got us to the front of the line when

X-Com Apocalypse

Hubby managed to give me my all-time favourite PC game back, X-COM Apocalypse! It's running in a VM Ware install of MS-DOS, on the Mac Mini, which is contrary to all nature, but I don't care. It's one of the few games I completed

Ongoing with Eris

Still in the raglan increases. Counted nearly 300 stitches to make sure I was on track, and everything's fine (though my interpretation of "repeat twice" needs a little work). Really looking forward to getting the arms and body divided! Each row is taking an ice age

Someone stole my blog post

It's been an interesting week. As in the curse May you live in interesting times. Some weasel in Russia had been scraping my blog feed since the start of May and republishing all my posts on their spam blog with Google AdSense ads. They were stealing content from

The Eris Chronicles

Finished the yoke in 11 days, and it looks fantastic, I love how the neckline stitches are curled in to make a collar seam. Picking up stitches around the yoke was less arduous than I expected. You practice the picking up method with the centre back join. I cheated and

Purity

As a physics graduate, married to a chemistry graduate... (NB: in his about section, the author says "You can post xkcd in your blog (whether ad-supported or not) with no need to get my permission")

How to write James Bond

BBC News: Faulks' quest to follow Fleming. Sebastian Faulks has written a new James Bond novel in the style of Ian Fleming to mark the centenary of Fleming's birth. To pay homage to the man who created 007, Faulks decided he had to get inside Fleming'

Spinning lessons

Last Friday was Anna's first spinning lesson. She used my Cascade Little Si spindle and some Romney locks I flicked and drafted into roving. It felt good teaching her how to do something I enjoy, watching her work out how to get around the obstacles on their own,

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