@ Adrian Tritschler · Sunday, May 11, 2003 · 1 minute read · Update at May 11, 2003 ·
Dinner for seven, mother’s day special, the pressure is on. How much will we need? What should we make? Have we left it to late to start cooking? I was just about to add the barley into the casserole when the cry rang out “Eek! Stop!”
An infestation of weevils was the last thing we needed! Somehow they’d got into the packet before we’d put the packet in the jar, then bred and died in the cupboard. Not paying enough attention, I’d nearly managed to empty dead weevils and everything into our dinner!
A hurried trip to the shops, and a careful examination of the next pack of barley. Dinner was completed without mishap!
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
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.
