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Autumn bike commutes

Autumn bike commutes

Monday, Feb 25, 2019

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My favourite time of year, the temperature is just right, usually not too wet, enough daylight hours and unlike spring, no swooping magpies! Although it’s heating up again later this week, on a still clear afternoon I took a few mini detours for a thoroughly enjoyable commute home. Suburban back streets to Huntingdale, then through a back alley for some local colour, industrial brick buildings and rear yards. A few decades worth of discarded industrial detritus in some places.
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2019/0224/1051 – Review of CouriersPlease

★★☆☆☆ Parcels left in public view, unsigned for Selected “DO NOT LEAVE” on delivery form. Two days later received email telling me delivery date, went to confirmation form and asked “Please deliver Thu/Fri, DO NOT LEAVE IF UNATTENDED”. Courier left parcel on front doorstep in plain view of the street then their office phoned up to say it had been left. Asked why they ignored my instructions and was told, “Oh yeah, they shouldn’t do that”

Sunday, Feb 24, 2019

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Farewell geourl.org

Farewell geourl.org

Friday, Feb 22, 2019

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Since [2003-01-09 Thu] I’ve had references to http://geourl.org to locate resources, alas, sometime while I wasn’t watching that site has vanished and so none of the links will work. All through my blog posts are entries with latitudes and longitudes, many of them not visible once it is processed through Org mode and hugo, but some are. A brief bit of reading h-adr on the microformats website and some updated macros, then a republishing and blog regeneration and I think I’ve now got valid microformat location information embdedded in pages.
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Visualising cycling rides — relive.cc

Visualising cycling rides — relive.cc

Friday, Feb 22, 2019

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A few weeks ago I followed a link to a visualisation of someone’s bike ride on https://relive.cc and was impressed with the insight it gave to a ride. So I signed in, carefully read the terms and conditions and privacy policy as one always does… and linked it with my strava account. Of course since then I don’t think I’ve ridden anywhere interesting, so it has waited until yesterday afternoon’s long ride home to get a decent video of my own.
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Blue flower wasp in the garden

Blue flower wasp in the garden

Saturday, Feb 16, 2019

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Every summer I see them whirling around the bushes at work – Blue flower wasp – but they never seem to sit still for long and I have rarely been able to get close enough for a photo – I’m also a little wary of getting too close to any wasp! Late this afternoon I saw that this one had landed on the lawn in the back garden and was walking around very slowly, slowly enough that I could get up close and take a photo with my phone.
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Peeking into an open source package

A blog posting catches my eye, I decide to take a look. A one-person piece of software on a private git server, I clone it. Instructions are minimal, but tell me to run one script to build it, I run it, it fails with a huge error dump in package dependencies inside a framework inside building a Docker image. I look at the “issues” page and decide to lodge one. I can’t register because it never sends me the confirmation email.

Thursday, Feb 14, 2019

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A Groove Train!

Walked out of the cinema after a movie to find that directly in front of us there was a Groove Train cafe-restaurant! Amazing, still the same decor I remember from the late 1990s, almost the same menu too, when we walked over and checked. The original one is long gone from Bridge Road Richmond, I wonder how many there are now…. Wow, 26 of them spread across the country, that does look like a successful business!

Monday, Feb 11, 2019

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Blondie's Atomic comes on, memories fly out

Driving around at night with Richard in his bright yellow Ford Escort, cold Canberra nights, music blasting

Thursday, Feb 7, 2019

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we have a new friend – fairly bold juvenile magpie[1] frequently visiting and eats plums and scraps from the lawn

[1] Australian magpie

Tuesday, Jan 8, 2019

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YTBC[1] in South Oakleigh

Standing around after athletics training, five yellow-tailed black cockatoos[1] flew slowly overhead, the kids and I all smile and watched [1] Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Tuesday, Dec 11, 2018

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sitting in the garden, too hot in the house, watched as a butcherbird[1] came and drank from a cup still full of rain. Must get around to putting in a birdbath

[1] Grey butcherbird

Friday, Dec 7, 2018

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Obstruction, my lord

Obstruction, my lord

Friday, Nov 30, 2018

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About 15 years ago I moved to Oakleigh and although I’d probably used the “Station trail” bike path – now the “Djerring trail” – before then, that was when I started it using it at least weekly, sometimes daily. The path is pretty poor, it runs between train stations but vanishes at each one. Too hard to work out a through-route for cyclists so in fairly typical Melbourne bike facilities fashion it just vanishes, leaves you to – “Cyclists dismount” – walk through connecting footpaths and pedestrian underpasses, then ride through car parks, then rejoin the next section of shared path – all additionally dangerous if you’ve got small children with you.
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IP geolocation is so much fun

Some services seem to put me at -25.2744, 133.77514, which is the geometric centre of Australia, others die a horrible death on IPv6 addresses and end up in China, even my home ADSL connection seems to end up be placed 10km away in Preston

Wednesday, Nov 28, 2018

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Melbourne, Springtime

We’re three-quarters of the way through November, summer starts at the end of next week, we had several days over 30°C last week, today it’s rained all day and is currently 14.3°C outside – can I turn the heater on?

Friday, Nov 23, 2018

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 7 — rainy day commute and a coffee

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 7 — rainy day commute and a coffee

Friday, Nov 23, 2018

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My seventh – and last – ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge. The challenge ends on Sunday and there are things I must do on both days of the weekend, so I’d been wondering how I’d fit in the last ride. Earlier this week I’d been intending to go for a lunch ride on Thursday or Friday, similar to the shorter rides I did last year. Well it didn’t happen yesterday, so that left today.
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The Slog, 2018, 160km

The Slog, 2018, 160km

Saturday, Nov 17, 2018

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My sixth time around the loop; 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and now 2018. I’d entered in 2013 but had the flu the week before the ride and that Saturday it poured with rain, so I sensibly stayed home. The official timing reports say that I completed the ride in 7hr 22min 36sec, which puts me 9th last of the 177 riders in the 160 km event, and 3hr 22min behind Eric who was first to finish!
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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 6 — Early home, chores, a coffee

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 6 — Early home, chores, a coffee

Friday, Nov 16, 2018

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My sixth ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge; tomorrow I’m off on “an event” which rules out my Saturday ride being counted as part of the challenge, so I snuck in a coffeeneuring coffee as my late lunch, going home early to work from home, and to do some secret chores. Circumstances dictated that I had to collect kid from school, so an early ride home and then work from home was called for.
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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 5 — The other river, yesterday's donut, a hipster coffee

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 5 — The other river, yesterday's donut, a hipster coffee

Saturday, Nov 10, 2018

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My fifth ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge; each one different so far; back in Melbourne after last weekend away and a bit of exploration – urban and riverside – then a coffee on the way home. I’d had a hankering to go west and explore the Maribyrnong for a few weeks – partly after going over it on our Around the Bay ride, and partly after hearing a relation talk of his work on an engineering project out that way – it reminded me I rarely go out there and hadn’t seen much of that side of Melbourne for years.
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A black cockatoo[1] just flew overhead calling, first one I've seen or heard for months

[1] Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Sunday, Nov 4, 2018

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 4 — The Great Ocean Road, the wind, the coffee

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 4 — The Great Ocean Road, the wind, the coffee

Saturday, Nov 3, 2018

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My fourth ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge; each one different so far; equally good scenery to last week, but much better coffee. We were going away for a four day weekend due to the Melbourne festival of horse whipping, drunkenness and gambling … err, the Melbourne Cup … and taking the bikes with us. It takes up too much of the day if I try and ride the whole 200 km from Melbourne to Lorne so I’d decided to wait until somewhere around Freshwater Creek or Moriac – depending on the route we took – and ride the rest of the way from there.
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Amazon frustrations

After a frustrating experience of having Amazon show me an ad with an Australian price and the shipping to Australia, it let me get several steps through the ordering process before telling me that they won’t ship “non-digital products” to Australia.

Thursday, Nov 1, 2018

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Coffee shop coincidence

After doing some grocery shopping we sat down in a local café for a coffee and were served by the most inept waiter I’ve met in ages – for his benefit I’ll just assume it was his first day, but judging by the hair pulling and endless teeth grinding of the owner, it may well be his last. The amusing coincidence? The waiter was the idiot that I’ve met several times in the last few weeks who rides against the traffic the wrong way up Dandenong road, the idiot that nearly hit me head-on one morning on the way to work

Sunday, Oct 28, 2018

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Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 3 — Mountain ash, tree ferns, bad coffee

Coffeeneuring 2018 no. 3 — Mountain ash, tree ferns, bad coffee

Saturday, Oct 27, 2018

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My third ride of the eighth coffeeneuring challenge; far better weather than a week ago, but much worse coffee. A six thirty start, first time back on the AWOL after it spent the week at the LBS having the bottom bracket replaced. Last Saturday’s gritty rain ride was the last straw, although it had seemed OK on Sunday when we went out exploring, on Monday morning it was dead – the occasional noise under load was now a constant grinding.
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…The Owner

There’s not much more I can add to who I am.

…The Site

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.

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