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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

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Jakob Nielsen's Top Ten Weblog Design Mistakes: 1. No Author Biographies. 2. No Author Photo. 3. Nondescript Posting Titles. 4. Links Don't Say Where They Go. 5. Classic Hits are Buried. 6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation. 7. Irregular Publishing Frequency. 8. Mixing Topics. 9.

Spiritual Disciplines: Study 2 and Simplicity

This week's study exercise was to summarise Ephesians 1:15-23 in one sentance: I thank God for you and pray you will know his glory, shown in Christ who rules all things. The meditations for this week are looking at the discipline of simplicity. Richard Foster'

Shawl, socks, and a novel

Finished the Prairie Shawl last night. I think it will grow when it's washed. Fingering-weight shawls appeal to me, but it's a whole lot of knitting to do with teeny yarn. After the lace scarf of Faina and the Eternal Sweater are done, then I&

Raise the Rose

Mary Rose weighs anchor at last. The anchor and a section of the bow from Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose have been raised on the anniversary of the recovery of its hull. Tuesday's operation was carried out in the Solent, off Portsmouth, Hampshire. The anchor was

Can I stop now?

Got to be Monday. * Two doctor's appointments. * Embroidery skills evaporated sometime in the 1990s. * Took the day off work, but spent whole day running around like crazy woman. * Car died (bad battery, AAA replacement, excellent technician chap). * Hubby stranded at work after giving me working car to get

Weekend projects

Finished two projects this weekend. Presenting the Cuddle Toy: The embroidery isn't perfect, but I still like the pattern. Managed to snap the yarn making one of the ears, and I still have about half a ball left. Finished this off at knitting morning in Borders cafe on

Spiritual Disciplines: Study I

We're doing a twelve week series on the spiritual disciplines in homegroup, and this week is study. In addition to the daily meditation exercise we picked up in the first week, there's now a weekly study exercise: summarise a paragraph of Ephesians in one sentance, starting

Ig Nobel 2005

The 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes are out! Seeing the winners makes me proud to have a science degree. Check out the past winners, there are some real gems. Penguin poo wins Ig Nobel prize. Cutting edge studies on artificial dogs' testicles, locusts which watch Star Wars, and penguin defaecation

Mac report

We've had the Mac PowerBook five days now. This is what we had to do get it running: Network Our wireless network was locked down, so the Mac couldn't configure automatically but it did detect the network. Fixed with manual configuration, and typing in a really

Mac and Knitting

This is the second post made from the new Mac PowerBook, and I love it! Got the photo editing and FTP upload figured out, printing now works (needed to set up the IP address of the print server), my email and data is all here, and Firefox bookmarks imported happily.

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