to all who knit with karabella aurora 8. your project will grow. EXPONENTIALLY. i knew when i blocked this scarf that it would grow. i didn't think that it would end up being SEVEN FEET LONG! it's the longest scarf i have ever knit! and it wasn't intentional.

one long ass scarf

i've done a lot of updates to the site lately so hopefully everything looks normal now. i've added a bit of code to the site to highlight any comments that come directly from me so you'll know when i answer a question or enter in a conversation. i'm going to do more commenting here and less email responses to people (unless it's something i don't feel like sharing on the internet or it's personal or not really pertinent to the conversation or just a thank you) so if you want answers to your questions, i would suggest subscribing to my RSS 2.0 feed which includes comment updates, if you haven't already. i realized recently that i found it frustrating to go to a website, read about a topic in the comments, and then not see the answer because the blog author chose to email the answer instead of posting it so i'm setting a good example and all that.

some of you may have noticed that prince andre's world (the iguana at the top) was broken on tuesday and that's because the weather RSS feed went down. NOAA, i guess, has outages too. so i slaved over the PHP on tuesday and wednesday and have that fixed now. it will update the feed twice an hour (as opposed to once) and there will be no more weird errors on the page should the feed not be available again (turned off error reporting). i also fixed a problem with the updates when a new year begins AND i have the script use an older RSS feed if the new one isn't available. phew! i did some other PHP stuff too but most of you will find it boring. i, on the other hand, have a new found respect for PHP.net. why was i depending on my o'reilly book?! there's so much more on PHP.net to use and it's all free. lovely.

ok, back to knitting content next post. the second sockapaloooza sock is almost done! will probably finish it up tomorrow and will be washed and blocked over the weekend.

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