[1996-12-14 Sat] — Verbal abuse, another P-plate driver
@ Adrian Tritschler · Saturday, Dec 14, 1996 · 1 minute read · Update at Dec 14, 1996 ·
Noon, stopped at a red light waiting to turn right from Warrigal road into Dandenong road, a red Ford Falcon (Victorian registration ###-###) tore past. Three teenage guys, P-plates, big-engine and small-brain. Driver swung his arm at me in an attempted punch as he went past on my left and screamed “You c*nt!”
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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.