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 [...]
To the anonymous reader of my blog who bought books on Amazon using my associates link, thank you! Not so much for the few cents it brought me but for the fact that it means you thought enough of what I wrote to check out the books and spend your own money to get a [...]
Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling on Happiness is rightly popular (I had to wait some time before it became available at the local library). Despite the title, it’s not one of these “seven steps to real happiness” books. It’s more a book that tells you why people’s expectations of what will or should make them happy are [...]
We’ve had problems with getting the baby (now 10 months) to sleep properly during the day, and when she also started waking more often during the night I decided I had to figure out an answer. Our first child slept readily, took schedule variations in his stride, and so it was a big shock when [...]
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