@ Adrian Tritschler · Saturday, Jun 19, 2004 · 1 minute read · Update at Jun 19, 2004 ·
When reading a book about the Oxford English Dictionary I might expect to find a largish vocabulary, even in a popular book such as Simon Winchester’s The Surgeon of Crowthorne1 there are words that make me pause for a moment — but rarely am I completely at a loss. Today was one of those days.
But their beards and moustaches were the most obvious similarity — in both cases white and long and nicely swallow-tailed beards, with thick moustaches and sideburns and ample bugger grips.
Ample WHATS? The term provokes far too vivid an idea, but its a term that I’ve never heard before…
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.
