Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler
![Photos for [2006-10-11 Wed]](https://ajft.org/img/default3.jpg)
Photos restructured
I broke it, I'll fix it….
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Herbie crosses Dandenong road
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V/Line Bombardier and Sprinter at Southern Cross station
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New V/Line fast regional train at Southern Cross station
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Bow of the Farley Mowat
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Sea Shepherd international
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Farley Mowat foredeck
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Whalers sunk by the Farley Mowat
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100 year-old V-class “Toast rack” tram
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Inside the 100 year-old V class tram
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The special tram from the movie “Malcolm”
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Controls of a 70 year-old HTT tram
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Jo driving an HTT tram
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100 years of Melbourne's electric trams
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Under a tram at the tram centenary
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Timber work in an old W class tram
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Cord-operated tram bell
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VR tram number 53 at the tram centenary
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Inside the old VR tram
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VR tram number 53 at the tram centenary
100 years of Electric trams — Woot!
OK, it does sound very nerdish! Today was the 100th anniversary of the first electric tram becoming operational in Melbourne — there’d been cable-trams running before 1906.
Thoughts on riding the tandem in to Docklands evaporated in the rain and howling wind, so public transport was used to go and see the public transport — a train in to the city, then nearly blown backwards as we struggled our way from Spencer Street station (that I refuse to call Southern Cross station) down to Docklands for a bit of tram-spotting.
Nostalgia for Richmond
Out of work and onto the bike to ride home, run inside and grab a pair of jeans and other essentials, then back out to ride in to Richmond for a beer.
Sunset commute ride, sun in the eyes, bugs along Gardiners creek, manic motorists all around. The majority of other cyclists are heading out from the city, here I am again riding against the flow.
Past the DHR and a surprise to see it all closed up, tape across the door and builders’ ladders and stuff filling the bar.
Ride to work day
Woohoo, ride to work day! Um, I guess that’ll be just like any other day, except with Bicycle Victoria pumping their fists wildly in the air in the background.
As they asked, and as I replied, in their questionaire: How will you celebrate Ride To Work Day?:
The same way I celebrate every day, happy to be alive after the idiots in the tin boxes yabbering on their phones haven’t killed me.
Maybe muse?
The two contenders that I can seem to find for tools to help me write and publish my website are pyblosxom and muse. If I was going to use pyblosxom it would be to publish static pages, which doesn’t seem to work 100% and isn’t really what it’s intended for. My main requirements are:
consistency of appearance no change to existing URLs OTOH, it seems I can use muse to publish to blosxom source files, then use pyblosxom to publish these to HTML.
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Looking down on the Diamond Valley Railway station
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On the Diamond Valley Railway
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Start of our ride on the Diamond Valley Railway
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Diamond Valley Railway from the station platform
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Diamond Valley Railway “Indian Pacific”
Diamond Valley Railway day
Are we ready? Picnic blanket — check, lunch stuff — check, camera — check, non-open-toed shoes to appease the lawyers — check, sunglasses, sunscreen, hat — check, off we go then! Half-way up Warrigal road…. Aarrgh! The birthday present! It is not advisable to go to a four-year-old’s birthday without the present! Back home we go, race inside, then off again, quarter of an hour late.
A fun afternoon celebrating, all the family headed out to Eltham for a trip on the Diamond Valley Railway, followed by a picnic lunch and chocolate cake.
Around again — Software update merrygoround!
Seems that Apple have actually noticed that the iTunes 7.0 update from a fortnight ago doesn’t work so well! Updates today to iTunes 7.0.1 and Last.fm 1.0.7. Now if only the damnable Quicktime installer wouldn’t insist on ignoring my preferences every bloody time the bloody thing is updated or installed and re-enabling the system tray icon!
I haven’t discovered yet whether it fixes the w-w-w-warbling and g-g-g-garbled music….
GTD — or not….
At what point does researching and reading up on how to better Get Things Done stop being useful and start to be a form of procrastination of its own? I’m not sure, but I do know that although I’ve made some inroads on my mess and plethora of inboxes, calendars, todo lists and notes, I’ve still got too many of them and I’m always a sucker to try out the next one I see.
So noisy in Melbourne
Why did I wake up so early again? The last three days I’ve slept really well, but this morning it was 3.35 am again, wide awake and listening to a loud annoying blackbird that decided to warble away until daylight. Five o’clock and the trains start, six o’clock and you can just start to hear the traffic on Warrigal road. Six thirty and I gave up and got up and had breakfast.
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Melbourne CBD from the air
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Approaching Melbourne in the late afternoon
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Late afternoon approaching Melbourne
Canberra airport security thugs
“Post 9/11” I have flown within Australia several times and internationally three times. Internationally, I’ve been to airports in the UK, Switzerland, Italy, China and Vietnam and have had various levels of security checks at various airports. Within Australia I’ve flown through Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Springs and Canberra. At only one place have I ever had any hassles, that is Canberra airport. It doesn’t seem to be a one-off either, it seems that every time I fly through Canberra airport the security staff are the rudest, most obnoxious, most determined to puff up their chests and egos and find some trivial item that must be confiscated because it’s in the rules.
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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