@ Adrian Tritschler · Saturday, Apr 22, 2006 · 1 minute read · Update at Apr 22, 2006 ·
An X11 hang, no keyboard or mouse response, only thing left seemed to be the big red button – or the big black button on the Shuttle.
Back up and an interminable wait to check the disk, login, restart, etc.
The USB video has been missing 2006-Jan-22 20:30, not sure what I did then, but it stopped and I haven’t been able to restart it. Not sure how much I’ve actually tried though!
Reread my notes looking for clues, found the reference to loading usbcore and ov511 modules. That didn’t seem to help. Then unplugged the camera from the RHS USB port and plugged it into the LHS one. Magic! The webcam returns.
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.