MondayLunchCrew

I made it. At least 24 hours without going on Ravelry. I desperately needed to prove that I could do it. I found that I did have time for more work and more knitting. But I also found it so boring. I’ve had a taste of the good stuff and I’m not willing to let [...]

I think I’ve had it. I didn’t realize how badly I’ve been hooked. I’ve been thinking that that I could stop anytime I want. I was wrong. Very wrong. Very very wrong. I’ve been giving up crafting hours for hours and hours of ravelry. I thought I could stop anytime. I needed to prove it. [...]

My New York age is 35 This New York age puts you into a middle category between young and old (but not “middle age” per se). Be proud. You’ve got a nice balance between going out hard-core and staying in. You care about culture but also like some quiet nights. Keep it up, but think [...]

As a web designer, it hurts to look MySpace pages*, apparently I’m not the only one: (I warn you now, this is very geeky humour) The Ultimate MySpace Layout at 9rules Humor Notes *There are some really beautiful MySpace pages out there, too bad they are few and far between…

So, been tagged in the “8 Things Meme” by craftlover. This will be difficult, but I’ll try:

Found this at craftlover and thought it was fun to try. What kind of yarn are you? You are Shetland Wool. You are a traditional sort who can sometimes be a little on the harsh side. Though you look delicate you are tough as nails and prone to intricacies. Despite your acerbic ways you are [...]

My approach to web design, interior design is about usability. I try every hard to always try to think of ways to make the things around me work better. I read this today regarding the Date field in forms and how different countries format it differently: I used to be a programmer. I know it [...]

Yahoo! Photos is closing. Not too surprising given their acquisition of Flickr from a while back. [via] While I think it’s a better idea to integrate all the photos to flickr for their customers to try, their current approach is more user centric and will let you decide what you want to do with the [...]

I love to experiment with wordpress plugins to see which ones I like. Some, like Link Harvest didn’t work out. Some, like Popularity Contest is on the bubble. But others have been working well:

World Disaster Map [via] shows serious widespread problems but also localized issues. It’s quite current. For example, it indicates a problem at the Woman’s Hospital in Toronto which I had also just heard on the news this morning. Internet Black Holes by Reporters without Borders. [via] I find it hard to express why seeing this [...]

Nice list of 20 Trusted Ajax, DHTML and Javascript tool sites on Max Kiesler‘s site. I’m always on the look out for sources and this is a good one. Some of them I haven’t seen, and some I have. It’ll be good to explore them all. I’ll have a new update on cross-stitch in the [...]

Sorry for the lack of notice. Blog needs to go down for a couple of hours starting now. March 2, 21:48 EST for emergency upgrade. Update: Upgrade done, 22:06pm. Here’s the story of what this was all about.

Taking the step to upgrade to WordPress version 2.11 Ella with security upgrade tomorrow night. I’ve been putting off upgrading to Ella, but now that there’s a security upgrade, it’s time. I suspect that the work will take less time than the 2 hours I’m allotting. But years of web work in corporate america has [...]

I’ve been having a troublesome time with my hands since last week. Been living consistently on my favorite pain killer. I’ve also been reading, but computer time, craft time has been cut down considerablely to rest my hands. Coming up soon, bunch of book… and for now, this great collection of links to tutorials on [...]

In the past few days, there’s been two big news items in my blog world news cycle. Item One Apple‘s iphone being reported by just about every tech related site out there. This is just a snippit of coverage from the blogs I read: Blue Flavor, Reaction!, Carsonified!, hicksdesign, Signal vs Noise, Subtraction, JeffCroft.com, etc. [...]

Thanks for coming over from the old blog. I’ve been wanting to set up my own domain for a long time. There’s really no point in having my own domain if it doesn’t have content! So, it was finally time to set it all up. When I first got into blogging I wanted different blogs [...]

The joy of Knitted Christmas Gift giving by Google Holiday Doodles chronicaled over the past few days leading up to Christmas. I love the fact that they are shining some light on the effort those of us put towards the hand made gift. Something that says I’ve thought of you all year and I spent [...]

In case you’ve ever wondered about your web coolness: Take the Test. [via] Serious, I love most of the stuff Cameron comes up with… Check out his Experiments link. I can’t get enough of CSS Love Child. [Previous Mention].

Kazakhstan’s Captial Astana is about to be covered by foster + Partners [via and via] More on the bbc.