Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods is a good place to start in the pantheon of the Discworld books. That’s the reason we chose it, rather than one of the many others, to read in book club. There are a couple of places where having read some of the other books would give some additional depth (the [...]
Eve’s XML and knitting analogy got me thinking.
You can think of a written knitting pattern as being the schema, with a set of instructions, just like the schema’s content model. Then each knitted item you make that conforms to that knitting pattern is like the document instance that conforms to the schema. Schemas can be [...]
The bookclub discussed Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Reading this was a reminder that one reason I go to bookclub is to be encouraged to read books I otherwise wouldn’t, and to get more out of them than I can on my own.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wikipedia review) is the story [...]
There was quite a lot of discussion about copyright issues in the comments to my knitted cushion piece; this is an important enough subject that it deserves its own blog posting. Obligatory disclaimer here.
The issue was whether a knitting pattern can be copyrighted. I believe that the complete pattern with all the words can be [...]
A friend in England got married, so I decided to knit her a cushion. Herewith the pictures, and the pattern, for those readers of my blog interested in my knitting posts.
Here’s a review of Antonia Fraser’s The Wives of Henry VIII (there also seems to be an updated version, The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Women in History)), which the bookclub picked, partially because I’d read it before and thought it was interesting, partially because most of the bookclub members knew a little about that [...]
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