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My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
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Week ending Sunday 2009/12/13
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
A Christmas function
“Assemble at 11:50 for the noon bus” we were exhorted, “Be on time!” I had my reservations about catching the bus to the function, being reliant on the corporate transport meant being held hostage if it rained or turned out to be a dud or I simply got bored and wanted to escape….
Will I or won’t I? Around in my head all morning, but finally I decided that yes I’d be the good corporate boy and catch the corporate transport to the corporate Christmas function.
QOTD - Thank you for holding
Your call is very important to us. So important, in fact, we’ll continue to keep you on hold so that by the time you reach a real person your mood will have become as foul and black as satan’s stool sample.
Cribbed from http://theoatmeal.com/comics/customer_service
Shifter woes, part #3
Continued from part #2.
Back from the dead — it lives!
After a long, leisurely, walk over to Carnegie this morning with the pram and Jo’s bike we picked up a newly revitalised Norky bike. Dropped her Norco Magnum off for a service and to sort out the gears and picked up the grandfather’s axe that is my Java1.
A bit of a comedown in the world, the only replacement 8-speed Shimano shifters left are Altus; LX, XT and XTR are all 9- or 10-speed nowadays.
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Week ending Sunday 2009/12/06
Storage; never enough
Disk space, ugh. The desktop is full, the laptop is full, the desk is covered in a pile of old hard-disks of various sizes in various states of repair.
Two 200G 3.5” IDE drives in fafnir in a RAID mirror A 1T 3.5” SATA drive in the DViCO media box A 100G 2½” SATA drive in the laptop1 40G 1.8” drive in the iPod 20G 2½” IDE drive in the X-Drive II card reader 20G 2½” IDE drive in the old X-Box 8G USB stick Then piled up on my desk, a collection of 3.
MLP — Tweet cloud
http://statuscloud.icodeforlove.com/ajft/13195: Tweet cloud for ajft
The end of an era
After a little more than a decade, the time has come to finally part with Mr Damage — for the last four years, maybe even five, I’ve done little more each year than just pay the registration and then get it running for a couple of days in the last weeks each January.
The bike owes me nothing, the costs in time and money of cleaning it up and advertising to sell it probably wouldn’t be worth anything like what the recompense would be.
Shifter woes part #2
Continued from part #1.
After a little searching online I decided to have another look at the internals of my rear shifter — albeit a 1996 Shimano XT unit, so I’ve had a decent thirteen year’s use out of it! Undid the three chassis screws, disconnected it from the cable, and brought it inside where I can safely drop tiny pieces on the kitchen table and not lose them in the shed or the garden.
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Week ending Sunday 2009/11/29
Shifter woes, part #1
Over the last few months my rear derailleur — 1996 eight-speed Shimano XT — has been harder and harder to change; I can change up to a bigger ring, but down is a problem, and I need to change two or three cogs and then back up. Jo has also pointed out that her changer is sticking and she was just about stuck in one gear almost all the way to and from work — not much of a problem around either of our commutes, which is why we haven’t done anything about it.
Banks
Ho-hum, a letter from the bank…
We understand just how tight the finances can get some months. You never know when you might need some additional funds to tide you over.
Um, yeah, I guess so… that’d be why there’s never more than about $1000 on my $5000 credit card, but you’re the financial experts so carry on…
We’d like to invite you to apply for a credit limit increase on your Starts Low Stays Low credit card, from $5,000 to up to $7,500.
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Week ending Sunday 2009/11/22
The Great Windows 7 Upgrade
I took advantage of Microsoft’s It’s Not Cheating offer last Friday and bought myself a $50 Windows 7 upgrade online, paid an extra $141 to get a DVD rather than battle Telstra BigPond and download it all myself. The DVD arrived yesterday, here we go. So it begins…
Of course like 99.9% of the people out there with Windows Vista on their laptops we’ve got Windows Vista home premium, and the Windows 7 Upgrade that Microsoft will happily sell us is for Windows 7 Professional, which cannot be used to “upgrade” the system, only to perform a clean install over the top of it!
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Week ending Sunday 2009/11/15
MLP — Windows 7 FAQ
http://store.digitalriver.com/store/msshau/ContentTheme/pbPage.Windows_7_FAQs: FAQ for Windows 7 “Its not cheating” offer
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Week ending Sunday 2009/11/08
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Week ending Sunday 2009/11/01
A bend where no bend should be
A couple of months ago — January 22, wow I hadn’t realised it was that long ago — I was knocked off the road bike on the ride home by a guy on a MTB who suddenly braked and turned right without looking back or indicating. Big solid guy on a MTB, he took the front wheel clean out from under me. “Sorry mate, I was only listening for cars,” he said as he looked at the damage before riding off on his way.
MLP — Modular houses
All from Living by Design, Sunday supplement to The Age:
http://bachkit.com.au: bachkit, 1300.288.223 http://ecovilla.com.au: Eco-Villa 0401.448.443 http://modscape.com.au/: Modscape 03.9314.7769
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Week ending Sunday 2009/10/25
Words of wisdom
Cam doesn’t talk yet, not in any recognisable way. Instead we get long involved fragments of fascinating jibber-jabber, it sounds as though it should make sense if only we knew the translation:
ma ma ma Ooo ya
owa owa owa
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Week ending Sunday 2009/10/18
Eating out
Eating out with a toddler is an interesting experience. Even with Cam, who eats nearly everything and seems well behaved compared to some, it can be a trying time. Finding places that open early enough that Cam can eat at a reasonable hour for him, finding dishes suitable to feed to a toddler — at least for us that’s an easy one, trying to ensure that a minimum of food is flung, squooged, smeared or anything other than eaten, trying not to be too self-conscious of any looks given by spoil-sports at other tables, all while trying to enjoy your own meal and eating it before it gets cold.
Did not Ride to Work day
BV’s annual Ride to Work day met work from home day today; together with cold and flu day and drizzly grey rainy day.
With the best intentions in the world I’d signed up saying I’d ride in, thinking I could pop Cam in the trailer, trundle over to Clayton for a breakfast and a chat then head home. Reality dawned dreary and coughing and wet and so we stayed home with a large mug of tea watching the rain run down the windows.
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Week ending Sunday 2009/10/11
A long time between gigs
Its five years this week that we’ve been living in the ‘burbs. Its seventeen months since a little boy appeared and any form of nightlife vanished. Its a long time since I’ve been to a gig!
Johnette Napolitano at the Corner hotel. Dinner at Sylvio’s — a large Sylvio’s special, garlic bread and a carafe of wine — quick, hot, tasty. Then back down to Swan street to the Corner Hotel.
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Disqus
Fiddling with the site.
Hey AGL, stop bugging me!
Its bad enough this ridiculous business of door-to-door sales-scammers, sorry, salesmen, coming around for whichever company wants to annoy you the most, insisting on seeing your bills for product X and trying to sign you up for some competitors’ offer, presumably one that gives them a commission on every customer converted.
Storytlr
Yet another aggregator, yet another site that’s tickled my fancy and convinced me to create a login:
Revisited [2017-08-29 Tue]: The internet equivalent of #bitrot has occurred and the service has vanished
Marketeers' spam
When not snowed under by the sheer weight of spam and rubbish mail, its important to take time out to find those little amusements in the day to day junkmail. Here’s one that came in today, personally addressed to a one-off email address that was on my site for a while, asking for a link exchange because clearly I have something to do with shonky weight-loss products.
Please use the following details for my link:
Flickr
Who views my photos, why, how often, what brings them here?
Every day or so I check with Flickr to see what is being viewed the most, and what has been viewed the most overall.
Oddly, my most viewed image has more than ten times the views of the next most viewed, and to me is a fairly boring bland photo. Linking to it here would only drive the view count up higher, so I won’t!
Mum's family
I guess being a Tritschler I tend to overlook the other half of my family tree, I know a little about mum’s family, but not a lot of detail. Wonderful to read a little about Grandad Barker from Gina then:
Reg and Kitty at the Russell Hotel in London …My father died in 1987, my mother in 1980. So long ago. They were ‘older’ parents and I am the youngest and I envy people who still have their parents - take care of them, one day you will miss them as much as I miss mine.
reg
Reg and Kitty at the Russell Hotel in London
HDTV DViCO TVIX HD M-6500A alphabet soup
Being part of a household that watches approximately an hour of television a week, at most, I’ve mostly ignored all the shiny new Australian digital TV channels showing the same old crud with the same overbearing ads and deliberate schedule slippage to render any recordings unusable. In the words of the TV executive, “We’re not in the business of letting people not watch ads.”
All of a sudden a deadline emerged, mid-July, the Tour de France, this year SBS will be broadcasting their coverage on SBS2 — their digital channel.
HINI flu!
Oh dear, oh dear. Can’t tell their h1n1 from their hini. Can someone please get them a clue, or maybe even fix their spell checker.
Maybe a netbook?
Yes, no, maybe? All the little 10" netbooks are attractive, but it seems that the more I look into it the more my options diverge, rather than converge to a model that I’m happy with. US prices on assorted models seem to be:
About
ajft looking stylish and black
…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.
…The ISP
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