@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Mar 12, 2002 · 1 minute read · Update at Mar 12, 2002 ·
Cold-calling phone salespeople - they’ve never been high on the list of people I like, today they just managed to move themselves a little higher up the list.
For about the fifth time in under a month, some idiot has called while we’re either cooking or eating dinner and asked us if we’d like to subscribe to the Herald Sun. I told them quite bluntly that I would never like to subscribe and as this was the fifth call, would they stop harrassing us!
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.