Monthly Archives: December 2007

Down sick; installed Mediawiki

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 31, 2007

I have somehow acquired an absolutely miserable cold that is waking me up four or five times a night with coughing fits.  And I’m not talking about a delicate feminine koff-koff; we’re talking the sort of cough that makes you feel like your lungs are turning inside-out.  I’ve been hitting it with cough medication and [...]

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Joomla and Mediawiki

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 30, 2007

Whew!  I have been buried in online manuals and books for the last day.  I have settled on Joomla as my content management system, mostly because it’s popular, extensible, and well-documented (the latter being really important for me given my lack of experience).  I also want a wiki, and again, I think I will go [...]

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Creating a handweavers' resource site; Joomla

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 29, 2007

In a fresh burst of enthusiasm, I’ve decided to create a resource site for handweavers.  I’ve already gotten a domain name and a hosting account through my favorite hosting provider, Omnis.com, and installed Joomla (an open-source content management system).  I’m not going to post the domain name just yet since I only just got started [...]

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Weaving, minor electronics, weaving database

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 28, 2007

I finally gave in and bought an electric cone winder to spare my shoulder the endless circular movements of ball-winding with very fine yarns (it took almost two hours for the fire shawl!). I promptly discovered that the ballwinder starts up too fast for fine cashmere yarns – the yarn breaks as the swift starts [...]

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Objectives for the next year

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 24, 2007

Someone on a weaving list asked recently what our objectives for the next year were, weaving-wise.  Here’s what I said: Understand network drafting and echo weave – Bonnie has been helping me with this and it’s becoming much more comprehensible now.  I have my first network drafted project on the loom now and hope to [...]

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