@ Adrian Tritschler · Thursday, Apr 17, 1997 · 1 minute read · Update at Apr 17, 1997 ·
Riding home at around 7 pm up Dandenong road, it was dark and I had on my dayglo Netti jacket and rear vista light. A black recent model car (probably Commodore), Victorian registration ###-###, came up behind me and the driver blasted on the horn for about 2 seconds until he was alongside, then sped off. Traffic was not heavy and there should have been no problem with him not being able to pass in my lane, or pulling into the next one. Nobody else seemed to have a problem passing.
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.
