@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Dec 12, 2006 · 1 minute read · Update at Dec 12, 2006 ·
Melbourne’s little paper outdoes itself today, with a headline and article reading:
Military goat toll mounts
THE total number of goats killed after experiments by British military scientists since 2001 stands at 69, the Ministry of Defence said today.
Ministry of Defence scientists use goats in the tests because, it is claimed, their reactions are similar to those of humans.
Hmm … maybe some of the website application developers should use goats for testing their user-interfaces before releasing the applications on us at work.
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My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
Vanity site? Technology experiment? Learning tool? Blog? Journal? Diary? Photo album? I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…
I experiment. I play. I write and I take pictures. Some of the site is organised around topics, other parts are organized by date, then there’s always the cross-references between them.
Its all been here a fairly long time. Like the papers on my desk, or the books on the bedside table, the pile just grew… and it all grew without much plan or structure. I try not to break URLs, so historical oddities abound.
Long ago it started as a learning experiment with a few static HTML pages, then I added a bit of server-side includes and some very ugly PHP. A hand-built journal/blog on top of that PHP, then a few experiments in moving to various static publishing systems. I’ve never wanted a database-based blogging engine, so over the years I’ve tried PHP, nanoblogger, emacs-muse, silkpage and docbook before settling on Emacs Org mode for writing and jekyll for publishing. But the itch remained… I never really liked jekyll and the ruby underneath always seemed so much black magic. So now the latest incarnation is Org mode and hugo.