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Hobbies such as knitting, crochet, house renovation, gardening, reading

Ravelry

I finally got my Ravelry invite today. I got on the wait­ing list about a month ago, so it didn’t take long. I spent a few minutes pok­ing around, though I will have to be care­ful as it could prove to be an immense time-sink for me, with all the dis­cus­sion about knit­ting and crochet. […]

2007 10 25 Crafts Comments (0)

Market Choice

Here’s a fas­cin­at­ing piece dis­cuss­ing how fixed prices on books in Ger­many was actu­ally push­ing prices down (con­trary to eco­nomic the­ory), while sup­port­ing a wide range of book­sellers. When I was last in Ger­many, apart from my usual beef about Ger­man book­sellers not tak­ing credit cards, I found no reason to com­plain about the range […]

2007 10 25 Books
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Small Gods

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 […]

2007 10 10 Books Comments (2)

Knitting and XML

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 […]

2007 08 27 Crafts
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Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray

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 of […]

2007 08 16 Books Comments (5)

Knitting and Copyright

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 […]

2007 08 10 Crafts Comments (12)