@ Adrian Tritschler · Thursday, Mar 10, 2005 · 2 minute read · Update at Mar 10, 2005 ·
Another day and another handful of my old CDs make their way onto my iPod. Something has got to give soon with the Australian copyright law and fair use of personal copies… Along the way I’ve corrected the typos that I notice, like the Voilent Femmes. Quality control on the song dates is pretty haphazard too. Then I got to wondering, should I relabel individual artists from Nick Barker to Barker, Nick? It would keep them all nicely sorted in alphabetic order, but it’d be a lot of work. Then all the odd edge cases pop up — is Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes a band to file under D or G? What about collaborative works like Rob Snarski and Dan Luscombe, is it S or L? Maybe they need a sort key as well as a display name? I think the alphabetic sorting leads to bands at the start being played more than bands at the end anyway — all that effort of twiddling the little whirly-wheel thing…
A bit of fiddling and a bit of XSLT, a few borrowed scripts and a little digging — Tada! — my iTunes list. Now to ensure that it’s kept up-to-date where I keep my iTunes, and also where I keep my website…
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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.