@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Dec 13, 2005 · 1 minute read · Update at May 24, 2021 · Image Credit
What's on your fridge door?
Lets see, we've got; a souvenir sticker from Jersey Zoo, a magnetic
Warthog from Johannesburg, a hand-drawn birthday card from Mark and
Lesley to Jo, a magnetic viking and wiry looking lady, souvenir from
Bungendore where my parents live, a favourite Leunig cartoon, two
photos of my sister's twins, a postcard from my mum, newspaper
cuttings showing a cute kitten and an exceptionally large pumpkin, and
an assortment of advertising fridge magnets.
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.
