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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Geek code

Kate Pickering wrote a Knitters geek code for the new edition of Knitty. This is mine: KER Exp++ SPM+ Steel Wood++ Bam+> Syn Cot++ Wool++ Stash+ Scale+> Fin Ent?> Flat++ Circ++ DPN++ Swatch KIP++ !EZ Blog++ SNB EZ? GaugeF+S++DK++ FO++ WIP+ Which means: KER = Knitter,

Zoo Along!

My first ever knit-a-long and I don't have to break my yarn diet to do it! Kitten Avec Whip! and the knitlette are hosting a Zoo along You have to knit a toy. Perfect timing, I just got Kath Dalmeny's World of knitted toys

April Fools?

The BBC has a round up of almost but not quite April Fools stories. But this one just had to be quoted: Cold war bomb warmed by chickens. Plans to fill a nuclear landmine with chickens to regulate its temperature were seriously considered during the Cold War. Civil servants at

Out of focus?

So is this a techblog, talking about Java software development? Or is it a knitblog, with pictures of work in progress, and finished objects? Or is it a news blog, or a links blog, or a writing blog, or a religion blog, or a journal, or a commentary blog, or

Yarn Diet

I'm going on a three month yarn diet, April through June. I have a yarn store trip planned for 4th of July weekend, going to teach Sehlat how to knit a funky little item, probably a summer scarf from eyelash yarn, and I'd like to pick

Exceptional

Interesting what you find in the Java SDK 1.4.2 API docs. This from the entry on the GregorianCalendar object: Historically, in those countries which adopted the Gregorian calendar first, October 4, 1582 was thus followed by October 15, 1582. This calendar models this correctly. Before the Gregorian cutover,

Odds and socks

Watching Gothika on DVD last night, scary movie. The DVD player got to one point on the film and refused to go any further. It also refused to open the tray and spit out the offending disc, or respond to any commands other than shut down. Highly odd, and more

Going underground

How to behave on the London Underground: practice good Tube etiquette. (link via In the UK, the blog of an Aussie couple who moved to London)

Wool pig

Fighting a bad case of the wool pig wannabee's, I created the virtual yarn stash, stuff I don't have, and probably won't get, but cannot lose track of. If I win the lottery, I'll get everything on the virtual stash list. I&

Migration patterns

The BBC has some interesting figures on immigration in their Migrant World, which includes several personal stories of migration, and a decent glossary of terms . Every once in a while it hits home that I'm not from round here, when I have to say "no tom-AY-

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