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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Getting served

(Back on my lovely laptop, mended and rescued by Hubby and working better than before. Huge thanks and warm fuzzies to Jeff of Bytes for a Bit who just happened to have a Win98SE setup CD with him on Sunday. Cold pricklies to Compaq for selling laptops but not giving

Goverment

Found a BBC article From soapbox to gogglebox . It's a good read. Winston Churchill never gave a TV interview, Harold Macmillan had to do an image makeover, and Harold Wilson studied John F Kennedy for how to behave on TV. Margaret Thatcher gave a pre-PM interview holding a

Nashville Roadtrip

Hubby and I drove out to Nashville TN on Friday night to stay with Sehlat for the weekend. Caught the amazing fireworks display from the top of a multi-storey car park, I'd never seen shaped fireworks (heart, star, and a great smiley face) before, or the 3-D firework

FW: 10 Things God Won't Ask

(Aye Captain, ahead rant factor thirteen) Don't forward junk email to me, it wastes time and bandwidth. If there's one thing I hate worse than forwards, it's the "Christian" version with this kind of guilt trip in: 10...God won't

The cat ate my laptop

I haven't posted this week because the laptop ate my wireless PCMCIA card settings, then decided to trash a bunch of networking DLLs I don't have a disk for, all on its own. My laptop is possessed, or possibly wanting some alone time off the internet.

Saucer

Completed the saucer to go with my teacup. I chickened out of the i-cord bind-off again and used a needle four sizes larger to bind off with, I think it worked. And this is the completed teacup: The cup is the same width as a Coke can if you were

Geekdom

Found a new geek blog, One Agile Coder . It's written by Brian Button, who owns Agile Solutions Group, and taught Hubby Extreme Programming. The blog is worth a look if you're a coder, and XP is definitely worth trying. Taking a piece of my own code

Teacup!

Completed the first cup of my Fiesta tea set Tuesday night and left it blocking on a can of raspberry soda. Now it's top-of-the-can shaped, and it looks good! Working on the saucer now, coming up for the bind off. This is a fast knit, I only started

Decaf beans

Mail wars

Hotmail counters Google e-mail Hotmail is boosting the amount of storage space for users of both its free and paid e-mail service. From July the basic Hotmail allowance will be boosted to 250MB and paying customers will get two gigabytes. The move is widely seen as a response to Google&

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