@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Nov 25, 1997 · 1 minute read · Update at Nov 25, 1997 ·
Riding to work past my favourite school — the Greek Orthodox school — along Willesden street Murrumbeena, an aqua-green Ford Festiva – Victorian registration ###-### – was waiting at the Give-Way sign on my left, the driver didn’t look and drove straight out infront of me. I was travelling at around 30kph and had to swerve out almost into oncoming traffic to avoid running into the side of the car. Yelled loudly at her and she just looked puzzled as to why a cyclist was overtaking her. At the end of the street she just went straight through a stop sign without even slowing down.
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.
