@ Adrian Tritschler · Wednesday, Apr 18, 2001 · 1 minute read · Update at Apr 18, 2001 ·
Picked up my latest photos at lunch time, forgetting my reciept and sweet-talking them out of the staff. For once I remembered to order a CD and it seems that the extra cost is well worth the effort. I must get around to getting all my other films scanned onto CD professionally. The first few of our daywalks in Magaliesburg look pretty good to me!
Magaliesberg, South Africa
Riding home at dusk as it started to rain it was hard to believe it’s late autumn, the air was warm, it smelt like thunder, the rain felt like hail. Could have been summer time.
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.
