Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
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Panorama around “the Sanctuary”, Erskine river (3/3)
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
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Panorama around “the Sanctuary”, Erskine river (2/3)
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Panorama around “the Sanctuary”, Erskine river (1/3)
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Panorama around “the Sanctuary”, Erskine river
Winter's day at Lorne
A winter's day on Lorne beach Only a brief respite, winter only took the day off yesterday. Last night the wind howled through the trees and the rain pelted on the roof. The neighbour’s half-built second unit flapped and creaked in the wind. This morning the sun is back out, but so different to yesterday, there’s no warmth in it, just a brittle glare to add to the biting southerly blowing in across the bay.
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Lorne pier in the late afternoon sun
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Gran, Will, Grandad, Kath, Jack and John at Lorne pier
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Crane on the old pier constructs the new Lorne pier
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Crane on the old pier constructs the new Lorne pier
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Building the new Lorne pier
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Building the new Lorne pier
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You are here; 123 kilometres out on the west coast
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Lorne surf beach in the winter time
Indian summer day at Lorne
Lorne pier in the late afternoon sun A surprisingly warm and sunny day — the fog and cold last night had me prepared for a weekend of sitting by the fire reading a few books! Warm and sunny and incredibly still. There were people out walking all over town, all over the beach, enjoying the sunshine while they could.
Looking back, it seems to be remarkably similar to a weekend down here four years ago — I even found another dead shark on the beach.
Foggy winter night
Friday night, race home from work, get changed, pack the bags, jump in the car and go.
Cold, dark, and Friday. What more do you need to create mayhem in the traffic? Sure enough, one or two people had driven into each other somewhere along the tollway, traffic was at a crawl from Toorak road all the way to the tunnel, through the tunnel and most of the way to the Westgate bridge.
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Demolition of 10 Mill road; only the backhoe remains
Let there be heat
As promised, the gas man came. Surprise, surprise, its never as easy in practise as it looks on paper. We’d been verbally assured that no site inspection would be required and no extra costs would be incurred, there was no conceivable reason why the job wouldn’t cost what we’d been quoted…. Oh look, the standard installation includes 6m of gas pipe, we need an extra metre or so. The standard installation includes a flue that’ll reach from the heater into a 9’ ceiling and we’ve got a 12’ ceiling so we need an extra flue piece.
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Demolition of number 10 Mill road; the backhoe shakes the earth
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Demolition of number 10 Mill road; only the fireplace remains
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Demolition of number 10 Mill road; the backhoe wreaks havoc
We used to have a neighbour
Three in the afternoon and the SMS comes in: “Large orange bulldoser (sic.) has just arrived on the back of truck!” Two and a half hours of crashing and grinding noises and now there is no house.
Demolition of number 10 Mill road; the backhoe wreaks havoc No chance now of rescuing even a cutting from their enormous Blue Moon rose — now buried underneath several tonnes of bricks and rubble.
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Demolition of number 10 Mill road; out with the garage
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Demolition of number 10 Mill road; off with the roof tiles
Ubuntu reconfiguration
Warning: the string include-menu-defs did not occur in template file /etc/X11/twm//system.twmrc-menu
Done it now … with style
After a few years of procrastinating I’ve finally gone and changed the look of this site. At least, some of the pages have changed, due the incomprehensibly ad-hoc way in which it is all generated and hangs together, some have the new look and some have the old.
VPNC difficulty
Over and over during the weekend, vpnc would either connect and then seem to hang up a little later, or wouldn’t connect. No log messages in either case, which was very irritating. Is it due to my upgrade to Ubuntu Dapper, or is it something at the server end?
Cameras
So far I’ve used the following cameras (reverse chronological order):
Samsung Galaxy S10 The two year replacement stretched out to nearly three… again… but the S8 was replaced by an S10 and as usual we got the S10 just after the next model had been released and made it to all the stores. I suspect the corporate procurement uses up the old models, but at no cost to me it does just fine for what I want!
Rebuilding commences
It’s a mess. There’s no escaping it. I hate to think how many hundred pages exist in here, and they’re nearly all hand-crafted (or maybe hand-crufted) in some way. I don’t want to use a CMS I’d much prefer a structure full of documents and Makefiles and then automate the whole. On the other hand, I’ve never actually managed to get it to work, always too easy to just keep doing one manual bodge after another.
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Meter series; three, the gas meter
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Meter series; two, the water meter
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Meter series; one, the electricity meter
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Fence, gate and vines in an Oakleigh alley
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Rear fences in an Oakleigh alley
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Ironwork in the Oaleigh pioneer cemetery
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Oakleigh pioneer cemetery in the late afternoon
Oakleigh photo walk
So many things can disappear without notice; the classic old fish’n’chips shop on the corner that for decades had its great old style advertising sign-writing painted over a drab, uniform cream; the classic old warehouse bulldozed for more concrete slab apartments. This afternoon I went out for a walk to try to capture some of the ordinary things around Oakleigh. The house next door before its demolition, the pioneer cemetery, the cobbled-together fences in the alleys, even the old electricity meter.
Ubuntu upgrade
Finally managed to find the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades page on how to upgrade the ubuntu system from Breezy to Dapper online, I would have thought it would be easier to locate, but every page I saw seemed to be based on downloading a CD and installing or upgrading that way.
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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