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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Yarn confessions

Ordered yarn from Knit Pixie on Monday night. It was on the porch when I got home today, complete with a handwritten note on the invoice. I'm very happy with the quick shipping and the service. Blue Sky Alpacas Organic Cotton is as soft as kitten belly fur,

CDP Progress II

Got my space on the test server sorted out, the Gospelcom support crew rocks. Ended up using a hand-coded CSS stylesheet written by Hubby to get around the IE/Firefox problems. Five sections are now ready to go live. Three still to do (including one total doozy, I don'

Sock yarn

The sock yarn has reached its new home, hope it works out well for Jacqueline. (I have no more sock yarn, you can stop leaving comments on that post now). My Knit Picks yarn has been mailed and I'm counting the days... I ordered the Magic Loop book

Ickiness

I hate it when my perfect layout looks all wrong in the other browser. Why doesn't everyone just use the right browser? I hate having to redo (slightly) the files I thought were finished. I hate having to tweak the CSS to make it look good. I like

CDP Redesign Progress

Thirty seven files down, forty seven files in four sections to go. That'll finish off the English side, plus fixing the issue with the langauge switch widget. On the plus side, it'll be way easier next time I want a site redesign, and the HTML is

Priorities

Big project ahead. I'm working on a redesign of the Christian Depression Pages website. This is an eighty-plus page site in English, with Icelandic translations of parts of it. I have one of the easy English sections done but there are seven more English sections, five Icelandic sections,

And the winner is...

Picked from the colander by Hubby: Jacquelyn Whitman! Jacquelyn, please use this link to email me your mailing address, and I'll get the yarn out to you next week. Thank you to everyone who left comments, this week has been a blast reading them all! I hope to

Sock yarn still available

I don't have time today to pick a winner for the sock yarn, so you still have time to leave a comment. I'll pick a winner on Friday. Thanks for all the comments, it's a real buzz coming home to them! (The "post

Interview meme

The Interview Meme: how to play 1. Leave me a comment saying "interview me." The first five commenters will be the participants. 2. I will respond by asking you five questions. 3. You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions. 4. You will include

Contacts to correct vision

Smart lenses to halt short sight Scientists have designed special contact lenses that could help make short-sightedness a thing of the past. The custom-made lenses are intended to correct problems with focusing which eye experts blame for progressive short vision, or myopia. A team at Anglia Polytechnic University will test

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