Warping On

I am working on a new scarf. This is my first scarf on my new loom

I am using a lace pattern from Handwoven.
I warped on a lace pattern and am just starting it you can see my progress below. The warping went much faster this time then my first YEA!!! I am getting better at this. I also found out what the 2 pins in the top of my loom are for. They are beater pins and they are used to fix your beater so it will not move. You can fix it into 2 different positions.

1. First is all the way extended for warping
2. Is half way and works great for sleying

So after warping I was able to start weaving and this is how far I have gotten. The colors of the Mountain Colors Hand painted yarn does not show as much as I wanted since I used it as the warp. So next time I do something like this I will make sure I use it for the weft

Technorati Tags: weaving, loom, lace

I was in my local library and saw their emergency exit.

All I could think is WOW only the staff will be safe in a fire

I bought a new loom just before Thanksgiving and I am finally blogging about it

• Step 1

• Get the packages
  

• Unpack the loom
  

• Put half of the loom together
  

• Go to bed. As putting half of the loom together took a very long time

• Finish putting the loom together
  

So now I have a new loom and I like it.

I just warped on a sample lace project from handwoven Weekend Weaver: More than Meets the Eye: a quick lacy shawl. I have warped it with cottolin which is too thin but I have learned a LOT from my experences

Technorati Tags: weaving, loom

Technorati has a new link count widget. I have it on my blog on the bottom right of every post.

I find it cool that you can see who has linked to every post even when that number 0 most of the time.

I know other bloggers like David Sifry have added it to their blogs.

Just go to the Technorati Link count widget page and follow the directions

So I have written 2 Wordpress Plugins.

1. Technorati Favorites Plugin
2. My Technorati Tag Cloud

I have just updated both of them to be widgets that work with Wordpress Widgets. You can download them here

1. Technorati Favorites Plugin
2. My Technorati Tag Cloud

To install them just unzip put the files in your Wordpress plugin directory and enable them. Then go to your  Sidebar and add them as a widget, configure and you are set. There is not much that is different this is just a version that works with Wordpress Widgets.

Note: This does require Wordpress 2.0 and Wordpress Widgets. This should work with Wordpress.com if have the ability to install widgets on it

I have been using gettext in PHP and this is what I found out.

1. First add the < ?=gettext("string")?> to your php
2. Then “find . -type f | grep -v CVS | xargs xgettext -L PHP”
3. vi messages.po
4. replace charset with “UTF-8″
5. do translations
6. msgfmt messages.po

Then your done. I have not gotten to adding or merging text

Technorati Tags: php, gettext,

I did not have a climbing partner today so I went bouldering today. For the first time ever it was fun. WOW it was fun.

Now Bouldering just looks like normal rockclimbing but shorter. But for reasons I can not quite explain it is SOOO much harder. And it is very very rough on you hands.

Today I was bouldering and I did not do half bad. I was was able to climb a bunch of stuff. But since I am new and it is VERY hard I am only able to climb V0 (the lowest rateing) I can almost do V0+. It is Very Very hard. But there we like 5 V0s for me to try and I did better then I have ever done before.
I am happy as I did better

I use Adium witch is a IM client and is very cool.

I just found out that Adium has a LOT of extras so I write my own.

So you can type /homer in any window and it will send a random Homer Quote to the person you are talking to. I find it very funny . I hope you like it.

Technorati Tags: funny, homer, simpsons, simpson, adium, plugin

Wow I knew that they had programming contests but I did not know that they has Evil Programming Contests

Wow!!!!

Technorati Tags: Evil, Programming, Contest

Update: For everyone that does not have wordpress or is having trouble Technorati has released a Blog Top Tags Widget. Just follow their directions and you can have your tags from them.

Update: There is an update to this plugin that works with wordpress 2.1 here

I have been working on a new and cool Technorati wordpress plugin.

This plugin will download your most used Technorait tags and display them in a tag cloud on your blog just like they show up on your Technorati profile. As always this plugin has caching so that it will only talk to technorait’s web site one an hour.

Also the only way to your tag cloud from Technorati is to become a Technorati memeber and get and API key. Then download the plugin (zip) and install it.

Add the following code to your template where you want your tag cloud to show up
It will format the data from technorati to look like your tag cloud on your technorati profile

< ?php technoratiTagCloud(”url”,”api key”); ?>

You may also request the number of tags you want to see the default is 20.

< ?php technoratiTagCloud(”url”,”api key”, “num of tags to fetch”); ?>
I hope you enjoy it.

Update:

Ok Wordpress will not let me remove the spave between the < and the ? so when copying the examples remove the space between the < and the ? or the example will not work

Thank you to everyone that wrote in