Well… first we had the scrapers… now we have the spammers… Since about 4:30pm my blog has seen an inordinate amount of traffic originating from all over the place… the one common thing… all of it is apparently referrals from a site that pushes software for getting your links around and about the web. I’m not going to give them the recognition they are after by putting the domain on the front page, so if you want to know more, read on… Read the rest of this entry »

If you have an i-Pod and you’d like a ’sock’ for it, but object to paying money to Apple or someone else for one… if you want to knit one here’s a fairly simple pattern for one. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve not been knitting too long (a little over a year) and I’ve just finished my first real request Up until now all the stuff I’ve done, I’ve offered to do to get some practice in. But just before Christmas I was asked if I’d knit a sackboy for a friends sister. He’s been knitted with the Alan Dart pattern and he’s got a nice little hat and scarf. Read the rest of this entry »

For anyone browsing with IE 8, the problem with the left sidebar should now be fixed. This is the first time I’ve used IE 8’s developer tools and I have to say, they made fixing the problem a piece of cake. I have Firefox with a bunch of dev tools installed, but trying to fix CSS problems can be a bind… with IE it was dead easy, turn off the items with a check box to see which one broke the page… one item, turned out to be a fix for a problem with earlier versions of IE. Anyhow, it’s fixed and the site now looks how it should in IE 8.

Seems I get quite a lot of hits from people looking for a sackboy knitting pattern, so to make your life easy… the pattern I use is by Alan Dart, and was published in Simply Knitting and The Sun On-line here.

It’s a PDF, so simply download it, print it out and get busy knitting

I mentioned in my review of Uncharted: Drakes Fortune that it was Uncharted 2: Among Thieves that got me in the mood to play the original game. I wanted to follow the story, so I’m playing the first one, but I’ve also had the chance to play some parts of Uncharted 2, so here’s a quick review of the second instalment of the Uncharted story. Read the rest of this entry »

I know this is an ‘old’ game, but I’m sure there will be people who have just dropped onto the PS3 scene who haven’t played it, so here’s one of my characteristically short reviews. Read the rest of this entry »

Being a big fan of LittleBigPlanet on the PS3, I was over the moon when I heard it would make it onto the PSP. And having been playing it since release, I can say I’ve not been disappointed. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, time for a quick review… this time, it’s the Pirates of the Carribean downloadable content pack for LittleBigPlanet. Read the rest of this entry »

With the release of WordPress 2.9, a fault with the Advanced Custom Field Widget was identified which resulted in blank instances of the widget being displayed. Version 0.82 (available here) has just been released to address the problem.

For more information about the widget, check out my wiki.