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Panaracer Gravelkings on AWOL, 8000km from Vittoria Randonneurs
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Grey butcherbird[1] on the fence near the study window; calling, calling, calling
[1] Grey butcherbirdamused that Spotify all week is alternating ads for sugary lollies and a dental clinic
QOTD "If this sounds crazy to you, it is because you are not Dutch."
Read an Ian Rankin Rebus novel, listening to a Rebus-inspired Spotify playlist
So much of the character of John Rebus revolves around his music, firmly places his age and style. Curiousity got me, a quick search and I found a playlist someone had created, whether of albums & songs mentioned, or just inspired by… of course now Spotify will think I’m an old boomer too from a day or two of the Stones, Black Sabbath, Nazareth, Velvet Underground and Joni Mitchell
Huntingdale station finally gets a Djerring trail bypass
It looks as though the badly implemented lack-of-bike path through the newly rebuilt Huntingdale station precinct is now being rectified. For years the old railway car park had the “Station trail” bike path come in one end, then left it to cyclists to mingle with parking and un-parking motorists for 200m or so, then rejoin a new section of bike path at the far end of the car park. By bureaucratic sleight of hand this was referred to as part of a “continuous off-road bike path” regardless of the hazard it presented to anyone from commuter cyclists to families with small children who tried to ride through there.
Strava and Relive breakup
Well it was fun while it lasted, and the most fun of all seems to be the interpretations of the decision by Strava to disconnect Relive from accessing data:
Strava’s email to Strava/Relive users Many of us at Strava have enjoyed using Relive over the last few years, but because of Relive’s recent updates, unfortunately, we have decided to end this integration. The current version of Relive violates several of the terms that we ask of API partners.
Gmail says "Something's not right"… and I'm inclined to believe it
Now and then, 500 Bridge Rd Richmond
Browsing through old photos and old blog posts I came across some of my photos of Richmond from 1998-2004 when I lived there, and more importantly, from 2003 onwards when I had my first digital camera.
How much has changed since then? Time to go and take a look, perhaps a revisiting of all the pubs of Richmond is called for….
An easier first target is 500 Bridge road, fifteen years ago it was a beautifully craft-filled shop, “The Violineri” – what has it become now?
epic advertisement for wireless headphones
I stood up from my desk, had the headphone cord wrapped once around my ankle, jerked to a halt and catapulted a quarter of a mug of tea across the floor and in the direction of colleaguesWhy do I hate the acronym EOFY so much? Not sure, but it annoys me
Epic dogfooding
Some time ago I added the RSS feed of my blog to my own feed – I’d suggest everyone do that, one of Murphy’s laws seems to be that no matter how much proof reading you do, something always seems to slip through and is only visible after you hit the “publish” button.
Today I’m sitting at home wheezing and coughing so I took the opportunity to browse through a backlog of ancient entries; check the spelling, does it make sense, is it embarrassing enough that I’ll cut some fragments.
Busy weekend, now it's raining. Time for a cup of tea and a book in bed
ten European starlings[1] and two Indian Mynas[2] on the lawn, finally a native, a Red Wattlebird[3] in the birdbath
[1] Common starling [2] Common myna [3] Red wattlebird
Musing on the confusing
While the sane world specifies dates in the form dd/mm/yyyy, with the units going from small-medium-large, the Americans insist on specifying their dates as mm/dd/yyyy, so medium-small-large. Sometimes I realise while I’m reading a date, sometimes I don’t, sometimes it takes too long to sort it out, especially when it comes from some non-American company who wouldn’t normally use the US format, but they’re using some software that does it for them.
My ankle's aching, is the weather changing or am I just old and decrepit?
Damn, dropped my Samsung earphones into a mug of tea, the left one may be dead
Paranoid? Attempt to register a very bogus looking 'recovery address' for my email at google
Paranoid? Email trying to get me to login and unlock my Amazon account. Targetted or just spam?
Argh! The Cycliq Fly12 hasn't recorded any video since [2019-05-10 Fri]!
I plugged the Fly12 into my laptop this afternoon to see if I could extract the video of me catching up to, then overtaking, the motorist who choose to drive hugging the kerb and blocking the bike lane in Gardiner road yesterday. Frustrated that once again the Fly12 has failed me, this time there’s just not a single video since [2019-05-10 Fri]. I suspect that the SD card has failed, that’d be the SD card supplied with it that the camera has always periodically decided it can’t write to.Surprise again! Oakleigh station car park partly closed for crane work on shops – but blocking bike path again
Every time they take the easy way out, rather than leave a footpath width aisle at the south side of the car park to keep the Djerring trail open, they close off the entire end of the car park and force pedestrians and cyclists out to make their own way – either through the shopping centre on foot, or under it through the tunnel with bus, car and truck traffic.Surprise! East side ramp up from Oakleigh station underpass is closed off, go west and around
like being back in Skyrail construction times, Djerring trail closed for a week, trucks roaring up and down
Huge gravel trucks in and out of our street up onto the bike path, chain-link fence blocking access to the bike path. I think they’re removing the rest of the old signalling conduit and wiring and I guess doing some landscaping.Riding home; low sunlight, currawongs[1] calling, 13°C along the creek, its almost winter
[1] Pied currawongI've been listening to Tinariwen all day and my ears hurt
These headphones drown out cow-orkers, but eventually they make my ears hurt, especially my left oneIndulgently reading through a blog, entry by entry
Almost gluttony, like the current fad of “binge-watching” an entire TV series just because you can. I follow a link that looks interesting, to another referenced blog, it’s gone, the site now owned by what looks like a chinese plumbing firm. Serves me right.There's a sticker on a lamp post "CASH PAID FOR GUITARS" and I think to myself, "I hope he did, hate to think he stole them"
Authentification she says, over and over, it bugs me but I can't bring myself to say something
Kuro5hin gone, how about that
Doing a little housekeeping on my RSS feeds, transferring some from feedly to my org-mode reader, changing some from HTTP to HTTPS, deleting some of the ones that haven’t been readable for years. Oh, what’s this, looks like kuro5hin vanished three years ago – I guess I wasn’t paying attention. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hinQOTD: "When cooking wild mushrooms, Dr Lebel says, “leave half for the coroner”."
A weekend at Wilson's Prom
The third of three weekends away over the school holiday, Easter and Anzac day breaks.
Driving in to Lorne at night there were two kangaroos and a fox in Polwarth road
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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