Well, it's not exactly my best work, and my accent is a little too obvious for my taste, but I've finished my very first video tutorial. It's a crochet provisional cast-on. Nothing fancy, but it is the first in a series of tutorials for the Japanese short row toe.
I'm inordinately proud of myself. After struggling with this for over a month, I finally have something that is good enough (not perfect, but it's better than my previous attempts) to show.
On January 5, I launched my monthly newsletter. (You know the same newsletter that's had a sign up form for the past month, but no actual news.) My journey towards a newsletter didn't begin with looking at software packages. It began with me sitting down and making a list of what needed to be in each newsletter.
I hate Drupal's documentation. There I said it. Go ahead and flame me. I don't care. It's the truth. I recently came up against this lack of documentation issue when I decided to use JQuery UI Accordion on my comments.
New Year's isn't a day that I normally use to stop and take a breath. I typically spend the day planning out my strategy for the next six months, reviewing accounts, and such. In essence, it's just one of many days that I spend working.
The DIY Tools group is one of my favorite places to lurk, and the place where you're most likely to catch me these days. Why? I'm cheap and I come from a long line of junk collectors.
A CMS is the backend of your website. It lets you add new content, moderate comments and trackbacks, rearrange pages, etc. Often, it lets you do this with very little to no knowledge of html or css. It is an administration method that doesn't rely on hand coding and FTP transfers. Nice, eh?
I needed the perfect yarn like an ice cream sunday needs fudge. Without the fudge, it's not a sunday. Without the perfect yarn, it won't be worthy of being mine.
I've never been very good at being a selfish knitter. Family and friends are kept warm by my sweaters, scarfs, gloves, hats, and the hand knit socks they beg for. I've kept very little for myself, and it's been several years since anything new graced my closet. Everything seems to go from my needles to the post office without any stops in between.
Knitting on deadlines (a.k.a. submitting and getting lucky) is actually a little worse. You pour your heart and soul into an item, mail it off to someone you probably don't know, and hope they like it as much as they did the proposal.
Thank you for the wonderful feedback. It will take me a while to implement all your suggestions, but the extra eyes were wonderful and greatly appreciated. If I can ever return the favor, let me know. The winners will be notified shortly.
And the winners are....
$25 WEBS Gift Certificate: Comment #30 (Candice)
Shalott Sock Pattern: Comment #16 (Laurel) and Comment #20 (Zebra)
When I left Mac for Ubuntu, there were a few programs that I missed. Skitch, this really amazing screenshot app that integrates with the web and causes your colleagues to deposit copious amounts of drool on their keyboards when they see the quality of your work product, was right underneath Scrivener in the most missed category. (Funny, all the programs that I really miss seem to start with an S...) I'd sort of given up and reverted to taking screenshots and then editing them with a combination of GIMP and Inkscape. Then I found Shutter.
