Upgrading to WordPress 2.0.2 from 1.5.2

I’ve been promising to upgrade to WordPress 2.0.2 for some time, and being on pregnancy leave seemed to be the right time to do it (up early in the mornings, no pressing work-related projects). As usual, the actual process of upgrading was simple and mostly just worked; I use WS-FTP Pro to transfer files and [...]

“Maps for Lost Lovers”

A review of Nadeem Aslam’s “Maps for Lost Lovers”.

“The Curious Incident”

A review of Mark Haddon’s “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”

Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land”

The bookclub decided to read Heinlein’s masterpiece — the brilliant spectacular and incredibly popular novel (quote from the back cover of the Ace Science Fiction edition, published in 1987). The book Stranger in a Strange Land hasn’t quite stood the test of time (assuming it ever did match up to the breathless praise). A couple [...]

Home Stretch

You’re in the home stretch now, people keep telling me. One month to go, and even though Tim says I couldn’t possibly get any bigger than I already am, I know I can and I shall. The bulge in front, that is, rather than the rest of me. Although someone at Pilates told me of [...]

Fife

Some time ago I promised our son that I would knit him a sweater. He picked the pattern, and the yarn, picking something (of course) in a fine yarn that took seemingly forever to finish. However, finish it I did, eventually.
The pattern is Alice Starmore’s Fife, from the Fishermen’s Sweaters book. It comes in one [...]