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This is not a New Year’s resolution

… after all, it’s already January 7th…:-)
But to be honest, I just reviewed my yarn stash and let me just say, if WW III started tomorrow, I’d be all set to last it out. So, completely independent of the fact that the year is still pretty new and that it is everybody’s favourite time of […]

The Other Losing Battle I Fight

I received an email today from a former coworker who has recently left the project. The email was addressed to a long list of recipients, most of them men, all of them my colleagues, and basically told us he was doing fine in his new job. Actually I was glad to hear that - I […]

New Year’s Resolutions

Is it 2010 already? I can’t believe it - where did 2009 go? No, rather: Where did the decade go? I feel like it’ s still 1999 and everybody is wondering whether 2000 will really bring civilisation to a screeching halt.
Whatever - in the good old tradition of setting oneself up for failure already in […]

You Know What Doesn’t Work?

Taking a flashlight picture of yourself…:-)
Nevertheless, the Rogue hoodie is coming along nicely, and as I closed the shoulder seams today, I simply had to try it on and take a picture.

I’m Going to Make It

Just a short update on the Lotus Blossom Shawl: I’m on row 163 of 168 (that’s close to 95 percent) and have enough yarn left from the sixth skein to finish the shawl. Hurray!

Green Christmas, White Easter

That’s a German weather rule, and it certainly holds true this year. All winter there was hardly a snowflake to be seen around here, and today, four days after the vernal equinox, I wake up to this:

Considering that I am busy finalising a translation which I promised to have at the publisher’s by Friday, I […]

InLine Posts

I just installed the InLine Posts plugin developed by Aral Balkan, which provides you with an easy mechanism to link your posts to permanent pages you set up in WordPress. Which means: From now on there’s going to be a project page for everything more complex than a pair of socks.
Of course, typing this I […]