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My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
Birds for [2024-04-05 Fri], revisit Lake McIntyre
Back at Lake McIntyre again (Millicent, SA), and a walk around the lake this time. At the second bird hide Jo spotted a small bird moving out on the mudflats, then slowly we counted more and more. Five Black fronted dotterel scurrying back and forth. One more for the #birdsseenin2024 listBirds for [2024-04-04 Thu], Canunda National Park, SA
A windy day for our bushwalk to the Coola ruins, nothing much to see because of that … some unidentified medium-sized raptors, and emu, plenty of them seen on the drive in, and a few on the 8km hike. Definitely not a bird I see often in the wild, certainly one for the #birdsseenin2024 listBirds for [2024-04-03 Wed], Lake McIntyre, SA
A short ride out of town to the wetlands in a rehabilitated quarry, then a slow loop around the lake – stupidly forgetting to bring out binoculars. Plenty of the usual suspects and three definite unusual spottings for the #birdsseenin2024 list, in the order seen they are: Blue-billed duck Lathams snipe Pied stiltQOTD: re. "National Harmony Day"
In 2000 the Federal Government rebranded the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination as ‘National Harmony Day’ in an effort that many felt was trying to pretend that Australia has already eliminated racial discrimination and can therefore just celebrate ‘living in harmony’ instead of doing the work to eliminate racism. – indigenousXThere’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.