© 1984 - 2025 Adrian Tritschler

There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
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.
![The Shrine of Rememberance at dawn [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0483.jpg)
![Eastern side of Melbourne's Shrine of Rememberance [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0484.jpg)
![The finish line for the Commonwealth Games cycling road race [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0485.jpg)
![Waiting for the lights on the Commonwealth Games road circuit [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0486.jpg)
![Glancing down at my cheat sheet on Alexandra avenue [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0487.jpg)
![Pausing to admire the fish and the city at dawn [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0488.jpg)
![Will the boats be gone when the road race comes through? [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0489.jpg)
![Nylex clock from the Alexandra avenue, Chapel street corner [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0491.jpg)
![Traffic on Alexandra avenue could pose a challenge to the race [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0492.jpg)
![About to pass under the finish line on the road circuit [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0493.jpg)
![Handy map for this morning's ride [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/03/24/t_img_0494.jpg)