Stranger danger

The BBC ran a series this week about internet crime to see what the average net user is up against, and it's a good read.  In the first article, they logged what tried to attack a honeypot PC.  They had to wipe the machine after the second article

Spin to Knit Friday

We have a date!  On Friday 13th October I'll be posting Shannon Okey's answers to your spinning questions!   It'll be the last stop on her blog tour.  My copy of her book, Spin to Knit, arrived today from Amazon. The really quick micro-review:

A nice hot cup of tea

BBC News: Black tea 'soothes away stress'. Scientists have evidence behind what many tea drinkers already know - a regular  cuppa can help you recover more quickly from everyday life stresses.  The study of black tea - instead of green or herbal varieties - found it helps cut levels of the

Knitting in progress

Made it over halfway (eleven repeats of twenty) on the trailing fuchsia scarf with  the first skein, I'll have enough yarn leftover from the second skein for a potholder  or a couple of coasters, but not for a matching hat.  One leaf is entirely pink and  purple, another

2006 Ig Nobel Winners

The award ceremony for the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize winners was Thurs Oct 5th.  These were the winners: Ornithology: Ivan R. Schwab, of the University of California Davis, and the late Philip R.A. May of the University of California Los Angeles, for exploring and explaining why woodpeckers don'

Plane old recycling

BBC News: Where old aeroplanes go to die. It was 38 years ago this weekend that the 747, the "jumbo jet", first rolled out of a factory in Everett, Washington State.  It was famous for one thing - being big - and phrases like "the size of a jumbo&

Spinning Q&A

What spinning questions would you like to ask Shannon Okey?  She's out on tour but still emailing, and I've got some questions answered already.  Her book Spin to Knit is showing up in bookstores, though Amazon still has it as a pre-order.  It turned up

Beginning spinners Q&A with Shannon Okey!

If you could pick the brains of an experienced spinner what would you ask?  Shannon Okey, author of Spin to Knit, is going to do a beginner's Q&A right here!  Leave a comment and I'll get your questions to her, and post all the

Milestones winner!

The humble colander is an item with many uses.  You can strain vegetables with it.  You can use it as an armoured hat in dressing up games.  You can throw it in the air, take poorly-lit photos, and pretend it's a UFO sighting.  You can also pull

All mapped out

BBC News: From Aaron Hill to Zoffany St. When Phyllis Pearsall, born 100 years ago on Monday, got lost on her way to a party in 1930s London, she set about designing her own street map of the capital.  The result - the A-Z - has become a byword for city