Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Home pages
A placeholder of sorts, of a bunch of AJAX-ish portals. All the rage, latest buzzword compliance and all that. Annoyingly, and as always, there’s arguments for and against each one so I can’t make up my mind if I’ll use any of them.
http://www.google.com/ig/ http://www.netvibes.com/ http://www.pageflakes.com/ http://start.com/ http://live.com/
Brungle revisited
I did promise them! It took me a while, but I’ve come through with my promise to send a copy of the photo “Our tour group of the Brungle primary school” taken back on March the 1st.
Brungle from 14,000km altitude Brungle from 295km altitude Brungle from 15km altitude For such a small place, I think they deserve a little extra attention! You can find Brungle yourself care of Google Earth.
From AAP to the Age
Interesting changes to the wording from the first report which appeared on the Age website credited to AAP, and the second one, printed in today’s paper.
The website version:
Webber urges drivers: watch for bicycles
April 3, 2006 - 6:24AM
Formula One star Mark Webber has urged Australian motorists to take a leaf out of the European book and pay more attention to cyclists on the road.
Webber, who admits to being a huge cycling fan, said while motorists in Victoria had improved in their attitude towards cyclists in the last five years, the rest of the country was not so patient.
Australian Garmin support
After the problems I’ve had in the week I’ve so far owned my Edge 305 I hunted around and found who are the local (ie Australian) support.
Telephoned GME and they didn’t sound at all helpful, “Its a new device and we’ve only had them for a while, send it in and we’ll have a look at it.”
A few minutes later I found out that a newer release of the software is available, so I’ve updated it from version 2.
The Annual Pilgrimage
Each year Jo and I head down to Red Hill to help with the harvest at the Duke Vineyard, owned by her uncle and aunt. This year was no different, just a little later than other years due to vaguaries of grape varieties and ripening.
The annual pilgrimage at harvest time in the Duke vineyard Number one problem was getting out of bed; even harder than usual for a Saturday morning, last night we’d been out to the Goat brewery, dinner in Victoria street, coffee in Brunswick street, then off to see Mick Thomas and Nick Barker at the Rainbow hotel.
Garmin Edge headaches
It hung again today. Once is annoying, twice a coincidence, three times… four times — product released before it is ready!
2006-03-24 13:00-16:00: on charger until it reported “fully charged” 2006-03-24 17:30-17:45: cycled home with it. 2006-03-25 10:00: plugged into the PC, downloaded data and restarted PC. Edge goes off and will no longer power on. Windows now reports “Replace device.” 2006-03-25 18:30: Edge finally turns on, but the battery is now flat and it turns itself off in under a second.
Snigger snigger snigger….
Being a married man as of almost three years ago there are some questions that come up occasionally:
1st Cotton
2nd Paper
3rd Leather
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Ooo-errr, its coming up on our leather wedding aniversary.
New toy redux
Yesterday’s suspicions confirmed — at least partially. Browsing through the user forums for the Garmin Edge shows that quite a few people have managed to either permanently or temporarily kill their devices. Also found useful things such as how to perform a hard or soft reset — information that seems to be missing from the manual. In fact the manual contains no fault-finding information of any kind!
New toy
Purchased Thursday, arrived Friday, broken Saturday! Saturday morning I plugged the Edge into the laptop and turned it on, it fired up the Garmin software, declared that there was no data to download (so I guess I didn’t record anything on the ride home yesterday) and then powered it off.
After that I found I couldn’t switch it on at all, and plugging it in to the laptop results in a Windows message telling me that the device is faulty and needs to be either unplugged and plugged back in, or replaced.
Journal for [2006-03-26 Sun]
Nothing in here for today; maybe there were photos or other pages.
Nothing but photos for [2006-03-25 Sat]
Nothing in here for today; maybe there were photos or other pages.
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Handy map for this morning's ride
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About to pass under the finish line on the road circuit
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Traffic on Alexandra avenue could pose a challenge to the race
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Nylex clock from the Alexandra avenue, Chapel street corner
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Will the boats be gone when the road race comes through?
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Pausing to admire the fish and the city at dawn
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Glancing down at my cheat sheet on Alexandra avenue
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Waiting for the lights on the Commonwealth Games road circuit
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The finish line for the Commonwealth Games cycling road race
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Eastern side of Melbourne's Shrine of Rememberance
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The Shrine of Rememberance at dawn
Who's idea was this anyway?
Today’s photos See the photos page.
Beach road on fast-forward!
Kathy Watt, star of the women's time trial The Commonwealth Games cycling time trials are on today; first the women’s in the morning, then the men’s in the early afternoon. I half thought about taking off from work at lunchtime, racing down North road to Brighton to see what I could see. Turns out that firstly I wouldn’t have been able to see anything since one event had finished and the other not yet started, and I’d probably only have about five minutes down there before having to turn around and head back to Monash!
Nothing but photos for [2006-03-20 Mon]
Nothing in here for today; maybe there were photos or other pages.
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A heavy load for a cat
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Tandem and inflatable sculptures in St Kilda park
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The Diamond Princess, in port during the Commonwealth Games
C'wealth games road mayhem
It was lots of fun with no traffic on the roads. Jo and I took the tandem out for a ride in the afternoon and rode up Beach road from Elwood to Port Melbourne. We didn’t see any of the marathon, just millions and millions of bollards, railings and miles of flapping plastic tape. Such a huge road when there’s no other traffic on it though!
Funniest part of it all was at one set of traffic lights.
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One of life's big questions: Which way round should they go?
The (Common?) Wealth Games
Billions and billions of dollars spent on a spectacular display of something on Wednesday night that left millions of people around the world collectively holding their breath and going “Huh?” Ducks and trams and what appeared to be the Crusty Demons of Dirt chromed up, polished and sedated while they popped itty-bitty wheelies around ballerinas. The flying tram spewed forth a horde of tram conductors in a scene reminiscent of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind — maybe that’s where they all disappeared to when they were sacked and vanished from the tram network years ago.
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The view from under my favourite lunchtime tree
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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