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Skinny dipping – Natural or not?

Posted June 5th 2009 by Anna

Here in Sweden there’s a number of bathing places that allows for skinny dipping, and nothing wrong with that, it’s voluntary to be at them. I don’t visit those places, and probably never will, but I think it is good that there is options for those who want to.

Although I enjoy skinny dipping occasionally I don’t do it in public. I go to private secluded lakes where there’s hardly ever anyone else but me and the company I chose, and I always bring the bathing suit as a precaution in case others have found their way there.

What surprised me today was that in a news article in relation to a new such place “opening” officially. Some of the people that have their summer, or permanent, homes in proximity to that place claimed it was not natural to go skinny dipping.

I can understand that they do not wish for such bathing place right outside their house, but generally the bathing places are located a bit outside of the communities and harm no one. But to call it unnatural seem a bit out of place, to me that sounds pretty natural, we are after all born naked.

Admittedly it is not the normal thing by the standards in the society today.

What do YOU think?
Is skinny dipping natural or not?

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I’ve made a decision

Posted May 19th 2009 by Anna

I’ve decided to add a downloads section for my site, where I’ll collect my WordPress themes and other things I wanna share. I have made a test installation of a script that will help me keep track of the downloads and provide me with statistics.

The only downside to this is that the script itself is fairly old and apperantly not in development any longer. So why chose this? Well I’ve used it before and it is a good script, that provides what I want it to and more over it is easy customize.

I looked at a few others, more recent scripts, and they just didn’t cut it for me. I’m sure they would do the job nicely, I just didn’t like the way they displayed files (using a file tree as most OS does is very popular it seems). So I was very happy when I found the script I used some years ago. Since then there had been a few version changes, but the last one was a couple years old. I figured I’d give it a shot anyways. And the code seem stable, and as far as I can tell there are no (widely) known security issues with this last release. I did a search for that.

What this means in reality is that if there’s some bugs, or if there’s some new function I wanna have, I’ll have to figure that out my self… But I’ll give it a stab :D I won’t officially take up developing the script, though in theory I could since it is an open source project under “GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE”, as I currently have to little knowledge of PHP coding.

However if I find any bugs, that I am capable of fixing with help of more experienced coders or on my own, I will make my findings public. If YOU use the script and find a bug that you can resolve, or have resolved I’d be very happy to know of them, especially the solution found.

Oh, might as well tell what script I’m talking about as well :) I’m talking about Olate Downloads version 3.4.3

PS. Have you found a newer release, I’d like to know that as well.

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My afk project in the basement

Posted May 7th 2009 by Anna

I figured I might as well share few pics from my hobby room with you all. The hobby room is all set for use now, all cleaned up and I’ve mounted some shelves for storage.

Well the cleaning up was done a while back. I actually had to mop the floor three times to get it all cleaned up, was a very long time since anyone did that. The room was only used for storage the last few years.

My loom

My loom

As you might know by now, I got a loom (posted about it here earlier). I did get it right in the end, and have almost made a 1 meter long runner in yellow. Not entirely sure it was a good idea to make it so long though, not even sure the color fits our house… But I had to start somewhere. I got a few other colors to chose from as well. Runners are mainly made from a special kind of yarn, but rags can be used as well. Granny mostly made them with yarn, but I know she made some using both yarn and rags as well.

All boxes contains rags of some sort

All boxes contains rags of some sort

I also got a lot rags with the loom. They are now neatly sorted into boxes color wise. All I have to do now is get creative :) But before I can get full use of the rags to make rag carpets I need to finish of the warp that is currently setup.

While sorting through them I got a few aha moments, recognizing the fabrics :) I did throw away a lot rags as well though, as the balls of rags were pretty small. No point in keeping something that would only be enough for a centimeter or two of carpet :)

In case the rags shouldn’t be enough when I turn to weaving with rags I got a big basket full of worn out bed sheets and stuff that can be made into more rags :)

The desk where I'll be sewing

The desk where I'll be sewing

Also there’s a place for my sewing machines there (only one shown in the picture). I ones did get me an education in the area of sewing clothes, mainly women’s clothes. I’m basically one step away from being a women’s tailor :) It is a rather long step though, since I’d need to have a lot more experience before I can (successfully) take the last test.

In any case I enjoy sewing, and through out the years I’ve made a few items for my self, the best part of doing that is they actually fit :) I’m not made from the same mould that the clothing industry uses when they make clothes. I’m about 10 centimeters to short.

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Small post for testing purposes mainly

Posted May 7th 2009 by Anna

I’m posting this to test the trackback function, or rather its display, in my new theme that is under development. Should be done soon now.

Although public availability will take a little longer as I design it for use with one of my blogs, and hence I put in a few custom things that will need to be removed before release. I doubt anyone else would have good use for the logo :D

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Been a busy bee

Posted April 26th 2009 by Anna

I’ve gotten a lot done this past weekend, or rather me and my boyfriend have.

Yesterday we did a lot gardening stuff, I planted some seeds that are supposed to come up to be nice flowers :) I love growing stuff for my garden, the sad truth is I usually end up buying plants anyways, because my seeds never really grow up to be good strong plants… But I keep trying every year. Dill, parsley and such things are more likely to actually grow then flowers are under my care. Probably because they demand less care…

I know exactly where I usually fail, its when I should be re-planting them into bigger pots. At the same time they should be placed somewhere not too warm, as they only grow tall otherwise. However knowing that doesn’t help much it seem. I sort of never get around to doing it until it is a bit too late.

Today we started by going down to the marina where we park our boat during summer. It was a day where members got together to prepare the marina for the season to come. Well considering the number of boats that are parked there, I’d say only a small fraction of the members were active there today. At least we did our share :)

I more or less grew up at that marina since my parents had a boat there when I was young, they probably still would if they had been alive today.While I don’t really remember or recognize anyone of the members there now, a few remembered my parents still.

When we got home we started preparing for some repairs/painting around the house. Our terrace needs a small overhaul, mainly the railing though. So tomorrow there will be painting on the schedule. Hopefully the weather is gonna be on our side for that task.

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