@ Adrian Tritschler · Monday, Oct 17, 2005 · 1 minute read · Update at Oct 26, 2020 · Image Credit
The climb up Uluru
The Arnungu people are the traditional owners of Uluru and ask
visitors not to climb since it is a sacred site to them and they also
feel responsible for anyone hurt or killed climbing. Approximately 85%
of visitors still climb the rock, and according to the ranger, 100% of
Americans and Japanese, and older visitors are more likely to ignore
the request than younger ones and are also more likely to join the 38
who have died since 1985!
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.
