[1998-01-28 Wed] — near head-on in a one-way street
@ Adrian Tritschler · Wednesday, Jan 28, 1998 · 1 minute read · Update at Jan 28, 1998 ·
On my way to work at around 8:40 am along the access road parallel to Dandenong road, this is a one-way street for most of its length. I looked up to see a west-bound car on Dandenong Road turning into the access road and accelerate towards me! I yelled at the motorist and swerved into the gutter, the driver of the white sedan (Victorian registration ###-???) laughed as he drove past. (I see about one motorist a month drive the wrong way up this road as a short cut into the suburb)
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.