Monthly Archives: July 2007

Fun with CSS

By Tien Chiu | Published: July 26, 2007
I got interested in CSS and HTML via working with Flex this past week – Flex uses style sheets and formatting tags (XML I think), and while I was spending hours tinkering with the Flex formatting for our demo to the board today, I learned a lot about structure and how to code stuff in [...]
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Updated my homepage photo!

By Tien Chiu | Published: July 25, 2007
Wrestled with Photoshop for an hour or two, and managed to get a new photo of myself onto my homepage.  Artistically, I don’t like it nearly as much – the other one had a lot more orange in it and matched the text a lot better, plus had more “energy” – but it does save [...]
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Finished current project, prepping for weaving exercises

By Tien Chiu | Published: July 23, 2007
I finished weaving off the painted-warp shawl today (photos in a bit) and am preparing to embark on a set of weaving exercises.  Weaving the painted-warp shawl was an exercise in frustration – I continued to have problems with skipping threads, and the right selvage decided to go loose on me in the last few [...]
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Working, a new toy, and cheesecake

By Tien Chiu | Published: July 21, 2007
My entire company is working this weekend to make a deadline, which is annoying, since I had hoped to spend some time weaving this weekend. Well, maybe I’ll be able to once I get home tonight…although I have the feeling I’ll barely be able to keep ahead of the laundry. Got a copy of The [...]
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Lady Di is working!!

By Tien Chiu | Published: July 17, 2007
After a long and extremely tedious week of troubleshooting (during which I muttered the words “would look nice as kindling” more than once), I have finally got my new 16-shaft compudobby loom up and running.  I wound up removing one beam across the bottom front and adjusting the eight back shafts to be 1/2″ lower, [...]
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