Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
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Mantis on a wall
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
ASUS dubious support
Amazingly, ASUS responded to my support call about their Liveupdate software (it simply doesn’t work on any of the ASUS laptops that it is shipped on!) Pointed me to an updated version on their support website and lo, it works and actually displays valid text in the menu! I still can’t work out how to find it myself by browsing through their downloads and support site. The English from ASUS is better than my Mandarin, but surely these companies can get someone to better translate the messages on their websites?
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Oakleigh roadbridge
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Grevillea flower
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Top value, lousy spelling
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Huntingdale skyline
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Caution, danger of death
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I looked, but I didn't see them roll
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Huntingdale shops
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My love waits for me
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Get your nutrient tablets and yeast energiser here
Vanishing Richmond
A large Silvio's special, garlic bread and a carafe of house wine, priceless Dinner last night was a pizza in Silvio’s, magnificent as always. The place seems so permanent, but so did so many other old favourites….
Driving up Bridge road there’s a completely non-descript concrete tilt-slab two-storey building in amongst all the other non-descript concrete tilt-slab two-storey buildings. The only difference is that six years ago it was “the derelict green wooden building,” then for four years it was “the empty building site with the to be completed soon sign on it.
ASUS laptop annoyances
After a serious hour or two’s use of the newish (now two months old) laptop, I’ve decided that some of the bugs are too buggy and need sorting.
ASUS auto-updater shows a blank window with blank pop-up items ASUS single-sign-on is appalling slow, and more of a hindrance than a help. Norton Security Centre just appears to suck in general The last one is pretty much a given, I think that’s the general feeling everywhere regarding that product, but I thought I’d let the three month free licence run its course and get some experience using the product — the three months can’t end soon enough.
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A large Silvio's special, garlic bread and a carafe of house wine, priceless
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Mr Snapper; cooked and ready to eat
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Mr Snapper, pre-cooking
The houses are full now
The second of the two houses built on the block next door is full now, I’m not sure how many people have moved in but they had all their friends helping unpack the truck — the only way to move house, the more friends the better!
That makes two houses with three car spaces that now contain somewhere around seven or eight young guys and who knows how many cars… I guess parking in the street could get even more shambolic than usual if they start parking out the front where customers of the Jaanz singing school park illegally.
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Waterfowl in the Oakleigh Wetlands
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Autumn sunlight beside the house
Something to Crow about
I don’t know if it is a result of the drought, general changes in the bird population, or me just being more aware of what lives where in Melbourne now that I’ve lived here for ten years!
For the last few weeks, I leave work nearly every day on sunset and there is an enormous flock of crows or ravens in the trees and buildings around the north-east corner of the campus.
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Crows roosting at Monash University
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Crows roosting at Monash University
We got Attitude…
The 2007 Staff Attitude Survey is now open and will take no longer than 20 minutes to complete. Please click on the following link to access the survey online via a secure website http://www.voiceproject.com.au/monash.
It’s just wrong in so many ways. Since when has HTTP been a secure website? If this is the staff attitude survey for us, who the hell is voiceproject.com.au? That second question doesn’t seem to matter much since it bounces straight to another company I’ve never heard of, asr1.
Telstra; very big, very confusing
More fun and games with Telstra; phone, email, phone — no, yes, no.
Seems to be differences in the emphasis in the email and phone calls as to the whether it can be relocated (email from sales department) and who requests and pays for it (support and faults department)
Today’s call, I stated the same question as last Friday and was again told verbally: The lead-in cable is Telstra infrastructure and neighbours are forbidden from touching it ($50000 fine if they do so).
The neighbours vs Telstra
Aw crap, what are they playing at?
16th May 2007
Owner XX XXXXXX XXX Oakleigh Vic 3166
The Residents XX XXXXXX XXX Oakleigh Vic 3166
Dear Sir/Madam
It has come to our attention, that you have a Telecommunication wire, trespassing across our property. As we have never given you permission for this to happen, we want it removed.
We noticed that you already have a pole outside your house, which would be more suitable for that wire to be attached to.
BMW, 4WD, SMS, IDIOT
Quite amazingly, the TAC has finally decided that their 100% obsession with speed being the cause of all collisions is not the be-all and end-all of road safety. There’s a new campaign telling motorists to — shock horror — pay attention and put the phone down, stop fiddling with the radio, stop playing with the children and DRIVE THE BLOODY CAR WITHOUT KILLING PEOPLE.
A good start, but sadly reality intrudes.
Bending over for Telstra
You think that we’re being shafted by Telstra and the government now? Just wait till they’ve finished bending over backwards to pat each other on the backs with this one. At least some people are prepared to analyse the name calling and full-page for and against ads in the papers and look into why Telstra wants the government to “rein in the ACCC” (that rogue regulator) and let Telstra have monopoly access to $9 billion worth of not-yet-built broadband network.
Famousness!
Seems that May is bike month in America, not only that, but in Motionbased’s blog I get a mention as one of the two runners up for logging the most number of “commute” bike rides for the year. Hardly record breaking distances with my 5km ride, but there would have been another month’s worth of entries if the Edge 305 hadn’t been off being repaired for all of January!
Interesting that the second, wamble, and third, ajft (me), are both Australian, while number one, mallfellow is in the US.
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Garfield's Iona hotel
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Jo on the Garfield station platform
Train in vain — part #2
Jo on the Garfield station platform After yesterday’s V/Line farce, what wonders would the train home bring? At least we’d be spared the platform announcements, Garfield’s station is rather sparse — a small half-enclosed shelter on an open platform is all the protection you get, there’s a timetable pinned up away on the other side of the line, and a confusing sign telling us that the trains travel through Garfield on either the left or the right… depending on what time of day it is!
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Lesley and Marko at dinner
Train in vain
Oh well, “it seemed like a good idea at the time”. Famous last words… Jo and I decided to catch the V/Line train out to Garfield to visit friends for the evening, a chance to try these shiny new purple VLocity trains and see what all the fuss is about and whether they live up to the gov’ments hype about the “fast rail” service or the opposition’s “farce rail” retaliations.
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Blech! Lipton's Chai Latte: A unique blend of tea, milk and exotic spice flavours
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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