@ Adrian Tritschler · Monday, Jun 14, 2004 · 1 minute read · Update at Jun 14, 2004 ·
Last ’s thoughts have resulted in a flurry of activity — I think I spent half the weekend revisiting old notes and updating the online versions.
It’s the Queen’s birthday holiday today — holiday for everyone except those who work for a university! The roads were nearly empty, everyone either home in bed or away on holiday. Riding along the freeway this morning I suddenly realised how the billboards for the nearby business park can advertise themselves as being “Only 29 minutes from the city!” Simple really, time the trip on a public holiday. Maybe they don’t even do that, just measure the distance and divide by the speed limit…
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.
