@ Adrian Tritschler · Wednesday, Oct 21, 1998 · 1 minute read · Update at Oct 21, 1998 · Image Credit
dst. (km)
Today
118.3
Trip
2221.8
Stats.
Avg
20.7km/hr
Riding
5hr 42’
found me sitting half-way up the mountains watching the sun rise up out of the Mediterranean and over Barcelona, gradually lighting up the rocks around me. I left in the dark, coming out at about 7.30 am to climb to the top, but with no map, no light and unmarked tracks criss-crossing the mountain I had only instinct to guide me, so I just kept heading up until I found a good rock to sit on, then sat on it!
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.
