© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
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
we have a new friend – fairly bold juvenile magpie[1] frequently visiting and eats plums and scraps from the lawn
[1] Australian magpie
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
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
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
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?
A black cockatoo[1] just flew overhead calling, first one I've seen or heard for months
[1] Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
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.
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
Natural History Illustration sketching homework
Took my lunch walk around to the lake and tried to sketch the ducks, breeding season and a strong gusty wind had them very skittish and rarely staying still. I should have chosen a more sedentary subject like a shrub – but even the shrubs were whipping around in the wind!
screen to tmux
Bit the bullet and jumped from screen to tmux, a slow jump kindled a few months ago when I was told that only old people use screen, sparking me to do something about it yesterday when I restarted my linux box and started a tmux session rather than a screen one. Now I’ve had to dig into manuals and blog posts to find out how it works
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
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.
