Date-iversary
Today is the tenth anniversary of my first date with Hubby. He sent me ten red roses. I love him!
More issues
Knit monster
I learned to knit when I was about seven, on green plastic needles using blue wool to make a scarf for one of my toys, a small puppy with floppy ears. Having just completed a sock, I'm looking to do more.
The About.com sock knitting patterns index
Miscellany
Got sick, got better, got sick again, am still sick. Snow on ground, freezing cold office, ice in the air, no sunlight for days on end, temperature below freezing most of the week. Right now 110F/43C heat and wet-blanket humidity of summer sound wonderful.
Pictures of London as
Disconnect
Turn off, log out, shut down.
A tech veteran is boldly going where few of his friends and colleagues dare follow - he has cut his links to cyberspace and hit the road to find out more about life on the other side of the Digital Divide. For the past 20
Holey socks Batman!
Confession time: I knit. Not only that, I'm going to teach someone else to knit, starting with a scarf. Tonight I started on my first ever handknitted sock, and it's hard! The four needles are tiny, the wool is like red dental floss, and I seem
Blogger idol week one: "The 80s"
The big event in the 1980s for me was moving from the new house to That House.
The 1980s was when we moved from Stowemarket, a small village in Suffolk, England, to Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk. We bought That House in 1981. It seemed like a decent house
Circle Journey
Circle Journey is an interesting idea: you send a small notebook back and forth between two people like an ongoing letter. I mailed one to my sister today, should arrive in about a week.
Wallpaper
If you're going to stare at a screen all day, it may as well have something decent on it. I like computer generated artwork, usually landscapes and planetscapes, and these are my favourite artists:
* Digital Blasphemy
* Rob Randtoul
* Ensar Yanar
* Inga Nielsen
* Ferenc Haraszti
* Karen Williams
* Juergen Eilts
Another haiku
I haven't posted in a couple of days because I was freaked out how far and wide the Cardinal Sins of Blogging list went. Someone in the Netherlands linked to it, a couple of places whose languages I can't identify, and a pile of other linkers.
Harold Shipman dead
Harold Shipman is dead, he hanged himself in his cell.
[Shipman] was jailed for life in January 2000 for murdering 15 patients while working in Hyde, Greater Manchester. An official report later concluded he killed between 215 and 260 people over a 23-year period in Hyde and Todmorden, West