Posted in All, Knitting, Misc on Nov 19th, 2008 No Comments »
I mentioned that this burst of blogging is somewhat inspired by the (writer’s block busting) activity of NaNoWriMo. It turns out that I am hardly alone in this aspiration. Someone else has coined the NaBloPoMo term for national blog posting month — blogging every day this month. That certainly captures the spirit of what I’ve [...]
Posted in All, Misc on Nov 17th, 2008 No Comments »
I recently got one of my suitcases back from the authorized repair shop – it cost $50 to have a wheel replaced and a zipper pull-tab re-installed. Although the luggage was hardly cheap, that’s still a significant fraction of the original capital cost, and it makes me wonder whether the original purchase was good value. [...]
Posted in All, Misc on Nov 12th, 2008 No Comments »
There were multiple announcements today of home mortgage bailouts in the US – from Citibank to its customers, as well as US Federal bailout plans via Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The Citibank plan offers the possibility of reviewing the principal of the loan as one possible parameter to adjust in aiming to bring the [...]
Posted in All, Misc on Nov 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Every now and again, I fall down the rabbit hole and find myself exploring “to do” software again. This dates back to when I first had an Apple Newton and worked with basic list applications (oooh, the thrill of having a “done” item disappear from view! so much more satisfying than a simple strikeout on [...]
Posted in All, Misc on Nov 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
One has the sense that 80% of the US population is on edge tonight – deeply concerned that the Wrong One is going to win tomorrow. What isn’t clear — what percentage of the population believes which candidate is the wrong choice. It seems likely, given the expected record turnout and other indications of people [...]
Posted in All, Misc on Nov 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Last night, I attended the Gala celebrating DC ACM‘s 50th Anniversary. It was a well-run affair, seemingly effective in its aim to pull together visibility, awareness and support for the re-emerging ACM chapter. The keynote speaker was Bjarne Stroustrup, best known as the designer of the C++ programming language. He gave a very interesting talk, [...]
Posted in All, Misc on Nov 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Today marks the start of National Novel Writing Month — check it outat the NaNoWriMo site. Although I don’t aspire to write a novel this particular month, I havelong admired the approach to breaking down self-imposed impediments towriting: “Valuing enthusiasm and perseveranceover painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program foreveryone who has thought fleetingly about [...]
Posted in All, Misc, Net Working on Sep 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Even before there was an Internet that emphasized the value and powerful reach of inter-machine resource sharing and interoperability, there was a basic concept that any given program ought to be able to use data files generated by any other instance of the same program, run on similar hardware. All the user had to do [...]
Posted in Misc on May 17th, 2007 Comments Off
The 50-year-old League of American Bicyclists have declared May as “Bike Month”. In particular, for most parts of the country, “National Bike to Work Day” is tomorrow, Friday May 18: you have been alerted & can participate! Apparently, though, the folks in the SF Bay area like to be a litte ahead of everyone else, [...]
Welcome to the new instantiation of the KnitBot blog! Importing content from the old blog ran afoul of some formatting issues, so I’ve simply saved it as an HTML page, here. The blog-specific links may not work, but the content should remain accessible. Here, I’ll be working on window dressings and other ornaments (aka, look [...]
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