The following is not news to my regular readers, but I thought it worth mentioning:

www.ormond.unimelb.edu.au/footer/employment/opportunities.shtml

As far as I’m concerned, a good friend has found a satisfactory way to extricate himself from a situation that had been causing him a great deal of unhappiness for quite some time. And that’s all I have to say about that.

Looking forward, I am quite pleased to see quite a number of confirmed engagements on www.auschoir.org/ which have immediately made their way into my calendar, and they should just as immediately find their way into yours.

And now, as promised, knitting. I haven’t blogged about knitting for rather a while, since I haven’t been making any progress worth blogging about. But last night I knocked off most of the backlog of episodes of the Enough Rope podcast (abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/podcast.xml) and before I knew it I had finished another ball of wool and the scarf was as long as I am. So I decided to cast off and call it finished. (All of 5 months behind schedule. With that kind of record I could tender for government contracts.)

Now, I had already decided what to do with the leftover wool (and in fact ensured there would be leftover wool to do this with): namely, www.knitty.com/issuespring06/PATTtopi.html Current progress:

And now that iTunes 7 provides gapless playback, I can finally enjoy all my Bach mp3s without artificial gaps between movements. So I shall return to my Bach.

I observed that the only way my readers (that’s you lot!) can tell when I upload new photos (short of checking manually all the time) is by relying on me to kindly post the links in a blog post. To somewhat remedy this situation, I modified the software I use to create the nice web gallery (iGal) to also update an RSS feed whenever I update a gallery. The astute among you will notice the fact that www.ockle.org/photos is now sporting a brand new RSS icon. For everyone else, you may point your browser at www.ockle.org/photos/rss.xml