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Free Knitting Pattern Search Engine

Posted by on Tuesday 21 August, 2007 02:08 PM

I've been playing with making widgets for people's google home pages at http://.igoogle.com and have made a search engine for finding free knitting patterns

If your page contains free knitting patterns you can add your site to the list of preferred sites to search. Anyone can also add the search engine to your Igoogle page, blog or website!

You can customise it to any size and choose from a range of border styles and colours:

This is the size I have in my menu bar over on the right (scroll down a bit and you'll see it)

but you can also make it look like this:

this:

and others

Spread the word and we can make it an excellent resource for finding free patterns!

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This, That and the Other Thing

Posted by on Wednesday 20 June, 2007 10:17 AM

Techy Website Stuff

The move to the new server is going well, despite my broadband being speed limited at the moment because we used up our monthly bandwidth limit 2 weeks ago. Good news is that it should reset and speed up tomorrow.

I do have to install image magick and netpbm myself using shell access. I've never done this sort of thing before but (fingers crossed) I can get it up and going. At the moment I'm uploading the website files to the new server. It takes a while to upload a gig on a speed limited connection (a couple of days).

Suffolk Puffing

1,404 suffolk puff yo-yos made. 196 puffs and a whole lot of sewing together to go (by August 19th). I'm cautiously confident about getting it finished in time. I'm also saving some fabric to make myself a couple of cushion covers, although I won't be using them until we buy our own house.

KnitWiki

The spam protection methods I installed seem to be working well. We haven't had any spam users sign up since I installed recaptcha. Once the server move is finished I'm going to install it in my blog as well so that commenters won't have to wait for me to approve comments. Hopefully this will encourage readers to have some sort of discussion in the comments.

Bink's Skully Jumper

Haven't gotten any further since the last post because suffolk puffs and website moves are taking up all my time. Must work on it some more so she can wear it before Spring

:-P

Hat Book Rewrite

The rewrite of my hat book remains unfinished due to many reasons. As soon as the website and the yo-yo quilt are done I'm going to work on nothing else until it's finished and sent to the illustrator that I have in mind so they can see if they want to work on it.

I do apologise to everyone who's been emailing me after a copy. After deciding to rewrite the book we have had a death in the family, sold our home, moved 900km, been homeless for 8 months (our family of three lived in a single room at my Dad's house and were really grateful to have somewhere to stay at all), had our possessions in storage for about a year, lost two dear pets to cancer and are only just getting sorted out and back on track. I am terrible at multi-tasking so I have to make it the next priority.

If I don't have it released in time for Christmas you all have permission to send me hate mail.

Actually, I'm going to go and work on it now while my ftp program uploads files.

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Problems

Posted by on Monday 14 May, 2007 12:31 PM

There's a problem with the knitting wiki and the gallery at the moment. Both are serving 500 configuration errors when you try and access them. It isn't anything I've done so I'm hoping the web host will have it fixed soon.

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For The Graphics Geeks Among You

Posted by on Wednesday 28 February, 2007 10:20 AM

Now that we have broadband at chez Knittingand, I have discovered the Photoshop TV video podcast!

See?

In the space of one little podcast I learnt to make cool retro cartoon-channel lettering and to correct the colour intensity in my photos without all the fiddling around that I usually do. My digital camera is VERY old and needs a lot of help in that respect. It uses 4mb smart cards. I can put 4 sort-of print resolution photos on each card...

Photoshop TV have a series of mini tutorials in each episode, and they're very cool stuff. And you can fast forward through the ads!

Check out Photoshoptv.com for more info, or let your itunes do the searching.

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Hey Lurlene! I Done Broke Ma Thinkin' Bone!

Posted by on Thursday 15 February, 2007 03:08 PM

My brain hurts.

I've been spending the afternoon reading up on all the changes to copyright (and how it relates to the trade agreements between Australia and the US) so I can write the copyright guidelines for the knitting wiki.

I'm in Australia but my website actually resides in California in the USA, thus making the whole thing even more complicated.

I really think the best I can do is to expand the information I was given by intellectual property rights professionals several years ago to incorporate the 20 year extension of duration put into practice in January 2005.

Only I need to write it in terms everyone can understand.

I wish I could afford to pay a lawyer to do this...

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