@ Adrian Tritschler · Saturday, May 15, 2004 · 1 minute read · Update at May 15, 2004 ·
Beers with friends last night at Monties bar, then some more at Lambs Go Bar — a magnificently named venue — and then this morning, the headache to match. Little Creatures’ Pale Ale, Hoergaarten, Leffe Blonde, Cascade, Holgate Macedon Ale and then the finalé. It was that last beer that did it, a Trappistes Rochefort, — 330ml, 11.5% alcohol and $14! I think I’ll blame it all on a collusion between the Belgian monks and Doctor Alan, it was his email earlier this week that made mention of Belgian beers, so when I saw the Trappistes Rochefort sitting there amongst the list of 100 or more beers, I just had to try it…
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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.