@ Adrian Tritschler · Sunday, Aug 22, 1999 · 1 minute read · Update at Aug 22, 1999 ·
A long chunk of ceiling cornice was hanging down about a metre when I got home this afternoon – a 3m length in the loungeroom that has had a slow growing crack for months. Wrote out a repair sheet and added – again – the outside gate and leaky bathroom, and mentioned the broken hallway lights – the timeclock is stuffed and the upstairs bulbs haven’t worked for a month. I tried to hand deliver it to Kay and Burton thinking they were open till 6 pm, found they were already closed and slid it under the door around 5 pm.
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My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
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.