Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
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Libby as Santa
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
![Nothing but photos for [2005-12-03 Sat]](https://ajft.org/img/default2.jpg)
Nothing but photos for [2005-12-03 Sat]
Nothing in here for today; maybe there were photos or other pages.
Bureacratese
Ah I love it. A company has a website that won’t work. I send them an email. Then I get a reply:
The error has been fixed and you should have no problems going forward.
Regards, @@@@@@.com.au team.
Did I have a problem going forward? Did I, like a Rolls Royce, “fail to procede?” How about plain English guys? How about “you should have no problems submitting entries.”
![MLP — Bookmarks for [2005-12-01 Thu]](https://ajft.org/img/default3.jpg)
MLP — Bookmarks for [2005-12-01 Thu]
Sifry’s Alerts: Technorati launches Related Tags: Ever wanted to see what posts are related to other posts, what tags are related to others? Now you can! Just check under the Tag description on most tag pages, like this one, or this one, and you’ll see the patterns. Can you smell the emergence?
RTFM and learn
Aha! He says, having just read the manual and realised that although his last camera defaulted to having the power-saving turned on, the IXUS 700 seems to have been delivered helpfully configured so that if — say — you are stupid enough to leave it on in your bag after fully charging it on Thursday night, it will quite happily stay on all night and all the next day so that it has gone flat by the time you want to use it on the weekend.
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Jo and I relaxing after lunch
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Jo surrounded by grass tree flower spikes
Nothing but photos for [2005-11-27 Sun]
Nothing in here for today; maybe there were photos or other pages.
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The old telegraph line
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Nothing south of here but Bass strait and Tasmania
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Wilson's Prom lighthouse
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First view of Wilson's prom lighthouse
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View from the top of Wilson's prom lighthouse
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Grass tree flower spikes
To the lighthouse
This morning we woke from a lousy night’s sleep to find that the tent was still standing, although still billowing in around us like a spinnaker in a gale. The neighbours had finally shut up after midnight, but commenced laughing, shrieking and giggling the minute they woke up, despite the odd pointed comments from other neighbours within earshot.
Breakfast and pack up, then over to the information centre centre to check in.
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Jo at the start of the Telegraph track
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Tramlines frame the city
Three in a row!
I wouldn’t have believed it! Three days in a row all I have to do is the fairly simple task of getting up a little bit earlier than usual, then riding in to South Melbourne to a training course…. OK, so I was a little bit late leaving this morning, but now that I know the way, and know where the building is, that shouldn’t have been a problem, and a new tyre should mean that all the glass in the bike lanes is not a problem either — and they weren’t.
Strike two!
After yesterday’s fiasco, getting to South Melbourne today should be easy… I know where to turn into Inkerman street & I know where the building is!
Somewhere down towards St Kilda the bike didn’t feel quite right, then I realised that the front tyre was going soft — all that bloody glass I swore at yesterday. I made it through St Kilda to Middle Park, then stopped at Penny Farthing cycles to buy a new inner tube — I suspect that the spare I’m carrying has a slow leak.
A simple plan!
Just get out of bed a little early, get on the bike, ride into South Melbourne and get to a training course. Not too hard, is it?
I intended to leave at 7:30, since I was fairly sure that the advertised 8:30 start was really “08:30 for 9:00.” Didn’t manage to leave the house until 07:40, off through Murrumbeena and along Dandenong road. Somewhere along Normany road in Caulfield there’s a tram turning left and I can’t quite see the roadsign through the windows — it must be Inkerman street so I turn too.
The Hills, the hills!
Two options for this morning; I can stay in bed, get up at a reasonable hour and then have a leisurely bacon and eggs, or I can get up far too early, fumble my way into my bike gear and go out to join some friends for a ride up to Kinglake and back. Sure enough, I’ve picked the riding option — about time I got my lazy self out and rode up a few hills…
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Underwater view of a baby crocodile
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Chappell Island tiger snake, the largest tiger snake species
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Mertens water monitor
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Eye-to-eye with a baby crocodile
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Beatrice the black-breasted buzzard
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One of the myriad evil ibis that stalk the sanctuary
Nothing but photos for [2005-11-19 Sat]
Nothing in here for today; maybe there were photos or other pages.
Site stuff
Another side escapade with a third-party blogging service. Google support led me a three week long merry dance in refusing to reset the password on my blogger account unless I could provide them with the email address. Not knowing the email address was the only thing stopping me from resetting it myself! Leaping from link to link, I found myself looking at someone’s photos in an MSN spaces account. Just for fun I tried the login button and was most surprised to find I could get in, and that a bare-bones space already existed for me because like 99% of the human race, at some time I’ve created a hotmail account!
Zope
Installed Zope on fafnir
Pets
Browsing through the recent photos on Fotothing and I came across some pictures of tropical aquarium fish. Beautiful as always, but annoyingly unlabelled, so the curious viewer is left not knowing what they are. Reminded me of fish I used to keep, then of other pets I’ve had over the years.
The loach, sold to me as a Javanese Weather Loach, it always sounded so exotic in there with the goldfish.
Road rage
Sunny day, no wind, definitely time to get out on the bike. Jo and I did our usual ride down North road to the bay, then down Beach road to Mordialloc. Interesting mix of barricades around Mentone since there was a triathlon running and the road had been closed, but only closed to motorised traffic! Apparently other cyclists are allowed to mix with the competing triathletes, which sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
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A glass of red in the Groove Train
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Glass, glass and more glass
Favourite places
Sometime back near the start of this year, Jo and I decided that when we went to eat out we’d grab the book of discount vouchers, pick a random, but not too inaccessible location, and try somewhere new…. All good intentions, but it didn’t last very long. Favourite places are just too convenient, too dependable. Silvio’s for pizza, Groove Train for whatever it is they label their style of food. Tonight was another Groove Train night.
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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