@ Adrian Tritschler · Thursday, Dec 18, 2003 · 1 minute read · Update at Dec 18, 2003 ·
Little things that stick in your mind, trivial things, but curiosities nonetheless. For the last twelve months — at least — there’s been a flattened beetroot can squashed into the road on Clayton road. I see it every day. It first appeared as a row of four or five purple smudges, ending in a bent tin where it had fallen off a truck. Gradually it moved to its resting place, becoming flatter and flatter, more firmly embedded into the tarmac. Once or twice a week I ride over it — clack, clack. Today it’s gone. A trivial amusement.
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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.