@ Adrian Tritschler · Thursday, Nov 10, 2005 · 1 minute read · Update at Nov 10, 2005 ·
Sometime back near the start of this year, Jo and I decided that when we went to eat out we’d grab the book of discount vouchers, pick a random, but not too inaccessible location, and try somewhere new…. All good intentions, but it didn’t last very long. Favourite places are just too convenient, too dependable. Silvio’s for pizza, Groove Train for whatever it is they label their style of food. Tonight was another Groove Train night. Calzone, Prawn risotto, good coffee. What is important in life?
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.
