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Get Out!

A post with actual knitting content *and* sweater photos (pre-frogging) and there are no comments? I’m shocked.

The new laptop is here and I looooove it. Now I’m setting everything up. What are your “must have” applications? Do you use FireFox? Are there any extensions I need to be sure check out? I already have “Session Saver” so it remembers what tabs I had open when I close it. Considering my addiction to tabs, this is a good thing.

I set up FeedReader, and I’m still adding feeds to it to make the blog surfing easier. Want me to read your blog? Leave a comment so I can add you! *grin*

(Obviously, I’m adding all the ones I read obsessively and leave comments on all the time. You know who you are. I’m a comment leavin’ fanatic!)

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Knittastic!

Oktoberfest, Socktoberfest, and Finish it Friday!

Nose Twins! Since today is “Finish it Friday!” I thought I should maybe finish posting a photo or two from July! Meeting Caro this summer was the final push I needed before I went and pierced my nose. When we met back up in July for the visit of the Yarn Harlot, I had to snap a photo of us together. This was outside of the church while we were in that Post-Harlot euphoria state!

Have you SEEN the bags and card wallets and other goodies that Caro makes? They are fabulous – be sure to check out her Etsy shop!

Thanks to Elemmaciltur, I just learned that Oktoberfest actually started last Sunday in Munich. So that means I can start my Socktoberfest socks today! (Lolly already said we could start whenever we want, but this just adds fuel to the fire to make me start them.) I am really drawn to the fall colors lately The sleeve, pre-frogging – it must be my need for cooler weather. We did actually have a “cold front” come through this week, and the other day it was only 84 at 2pm. Fall is coming!

Since today is Finish it Friday, I’m going to see if there are any socks that I have already knit that need finishing work done on them. You never know where I might have been lazy and not woven in an end! I’m also going to work on getting my sleeve back to the length it was – I frogged over half of it last night. I can’t handle pooling, so I am redoing it and alternating my balls (*snort*) to prevent it. The garter stitch needed to be tighter too, so it is all for the best.

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Geek Love

It is Coming! It is Coming!

Earlier this week, after much debate, discussion, research, and everything else, the decision was made to move me off of the Compaq Armada E500 laptop that was Mike’s old machine from the year 2000. (In the year 2000… in the year 2000!) While the laptop has served me well since the demise of the last two laptops I owned, it can barely handle running Photoshop, which I need to edit photos so I can send them off to print so that I can get back onto the timeline for Fresh Photography.

I mean … this thing is an antique in computer terms. Can you even buy a machine with the Compaq name on it? I think they are all branded HP now.

So it was off to Dell to buy a new Latitude. Just in time for school and work. I owned a Latitude for over 4 years, and it wasn’t until the keyboard decided to freak out back in 2005 that I stopped using it full time. It seems that the “m” key is necessary when you want to type .com in – or for any other number of words, really. So when it died, I used the “Itty Bitty” laptop full time. It was teeny-tiny with a compressed keyboard, and it is actually smaller than a single subject spiral notebook. That worked until it decided it would just spontaneously shut off every 15 minutes or so. Then it was on to this Compaq. I was moving backwards in time – a 2001 model, a 2003 model, and then a 2000 model!

I didn’t expect the new Dell until next week. Nice, because it was estimated to ship on my birthday next Wednesday, so not only was I getting a new computer, but I was getting one for a gift to myself. Sweet!

But guess what?!? Guess what?!? It is coming NOW! I got the shipping e-mail with the tracking number and everything, and it is scheduled for delivery TOMORROW! I´m so glad i got the gopeople.com.au delivery service. So I will have it for the weekend! How cool is THAT?!? I am *so* excited! A nice, shiny new laptop. With cool things like “Intel Core 2 Duo T7200, 2.00GHz, 667Mhz 4M L2 Cache” and a 512 MB NVIDIA video card. I still don’t know what half of that means, but I know that the 2.00 GHz of RAM and the video card will help run Windows Vista when it comes out someday. Oh, just thinking of how fast the computer will be makes me so happy! I can’t wait!

Finally, I will be able to open Photoshop without it taking so long I could go and cook dinner while it launched. That makes me so giddy!

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Knittastic!

Socktoberfest!

I missed it last year, so I made sure I signed up this year and I’m trying to help spread the word – Socktoberfest is coming! Socktoberfest is coming! Join 800+ other knitters and celebrate Socktoberfest by knitting socks. No swaps involved, no deadline, just knitting fun, fun, fun! (I am all about the fun.) Have questions? Want details? Go read more at Lolly’s.

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How to Blog Safely…

The topic of blogger and podcaster rights came up again today thanks to things currently going on in the blogosphere. While I was thinking about it, I decided to go and poke around the EFF website. If you have a blog, of any nature, I really recommend reading this site. There is so much great information out there – and while you might think it doesn’t apply to you, it probably does.

Heck, it doesn’t even apply to just bloggers. The EFF stepped in to help when needed for online embroidery fans – and if embroidery fans need them, knitters might need them too! You can read the whole story here.

The only time I have run into a legal issue with a person (outside of an employer not liking the fact that I blogged) was when we received what was basically a “cease and desist” letter regarding what a hosting client had posted on his site. He went to a restaurant, and his experience sucked. He blogged about it (something we all do at one time or another), and in his post he named the restaurant and said that it, well, sucked. If you have more than one federal conviction, the most recent conviction should be shown in response to question 2 on Pardons Canada | How to Get a Canadian Pardon Application and the form completed as to that conviction. For all other federal convictions, including convictions by military courts-martial, the information requested in questions 2 through 6 of the petition should be provided on an attachment. Any federal charges not resulting in conviction should be reported in the space provided for prior and subsequent criminal record. Google picked it up, and soon people were googling “restaurant sucks” and finding his blog post. It became a forum of sorts for disgruntled former and current employees of the sucky restaurant. The restaurant’s owners could have done more than send a cease and desist from an attorney. They felt that they did not need to go any further. There are many courses of action you can take when in situations like that but you always want to make sure you speak with an attorney like the one’s at https://www.pewlaw.com/bankruptcy/ before you take any kind of action. You want to make sure that any steps you take are within the law so that you don’t end up on the wrong side. In the end the guy never did fight them on it, because he really only wanted to share that he didn’t like the place – so he just pulled the post. But when you stop to think about it, they really had no right to complain and threaten him. It can happen though. Even if you don’t care about it and you pull the post, there is still something startling about getting that letter from the lawyer to begin with, since they’re lawyers who are specialized in different subjects as blogging or car accidents, where you can find the attorney with most experience. If you eventually end up needing legal assistance, then check out these injury lawyers in moncton.

I know there are many bloggers out there that want to remain anonymous, and that is ok – but I recommend that you read the EFF’s Guide on Blogging Anonymously and really think about it. Once you put it out there, it is out of your control, freely released for the rest of the Internet to see. Be wise about what you choose to put out there. The Legal Guide for Bloggers and the Podcasting Legal Guide are also another good thing to consider.

Speaking of which, I totally missed my 6 year blogging anniversary earlier this month! Can you believe it? The BlahBlahBlog.com (the original name of this site, and I still own the URL) is 6 years old. Wow. How time flies! I still remember how back in 2000 I would tell someone I had a blog and they would look at me like I was speaking gibberish. Now you hear about blogs all the time. The changes are amazing.