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June 29, 2004
New Knitting Show on TV
I got an email today from Interweave Knits announcing the premiere this Friday of a new show on the Do-it-Yourself (DIY) network - "Knitty Gritty." I believe this might be the show that Neophyte Knitter was in the audience for. (I know, I know, bad grammer alert.)
Unfortunately, we've got the most basic Dish Network package, and DIY is available only on their "Top 180" package which lists at $49.95 per month. I can hardly justify the $24.95 or whatever it is that we're already paying.
Still, what I wouldn't give to watch American Movie Classics, Turner Classic Movies, and a lot of HBO stuff... Uh, obviously, I guess I wouldn't give $25 a month.
In other news, I took At My Knit's End's advice and installed Mozilla Firefox as a replacement for Internet Explorer. I read a horror story recently about the nasty virus you can get that hijacks IE and takes away your default home page. The article went on to tell that the fix sometimes involves re-installing Windows. Yikes! This all brought to mind Kerstin's unfortunate adventure that I had read about just days earlier, so I decided to give Gates the boot.
So far, so good. It seems to be a little smarter about downloading web pages so that you can at least read some text while the images load. For us losers that have to use dial-up.