Tien’s blog

I’m 37 today.  Seems strange to be getting on towards middle age…I mean, 36 was still close to mid-thirties, but I’m moving rapidly on towards late thirties and (dare I say it?) the 40’s.

I actually WON a developer’s contest yesterday!!  The challenge was to create the best prototype using Flex 2 (a new development/prototyping tool that we’ve adopted), and I beat out the other two entries!  This is amazing since I am SO not a programmer - I’m very, very pleased with myself today.  Flex 2 is an [...]

Sunday was my friend’s tie-dye party, and I went out and dyed two warps, one rayon chenille and one a mix of tencel and rayon yarns.  Not content with dyeing a warp in a simple sequence of colors (e.g. the painted warps from Heritage Yarns), I actually separated each warp into two separate chains, and [...]