© 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.
![Jo under the Kellybrook oak tree [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/05/07/t_img_0578.jpg)
![Jo and the Kellybrook oak tree [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/05/07/t_img_0579.jpg)
![Heritage listed Kellybrook oak tree [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/05/07/t_img_0580.jpg)
![Heritage listed Kellybrook oak tree [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/05/07/t_img_0581.jpg)
![Heritage listed Kellybrook oak tree [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/05/07/t_img_0582.jpg)
![Scrumpy and apply juice at the Kellybrook cider festival [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/05/07/t_img_0583.jpg)
![Crushing apples at the Kellybrook cider festival [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/05/07/t_img_0584.jpg)
![The tasting counter at Kellybrook winery [*]](https://ajft.org/2006/05/07/t_img_0585.jpg)