@ Adrian Tritschler · Sunday, Dec 3, 2006 · 1 minute read · Update at Dec 3, 2006 ·
Herald Sun Sunday Shark Attack Terror
Shock Horror News! The Herald Sun excels itself at magnificent Capitalised Attention Grabbing Headlines.
On a related note, why are motorist deaths always reported as “the motorist died after hitting a tree” and with motorcyclists it always seem to be “the motorcyclist lost control and died after hitting a tree?” Don’t motorists lose control? Do the trees just run out and hit them in the middle of the roads?
Why is the little paper so bad, and why do so many people read it? It scares me that this is the major source of “news” for so much of the population.
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
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.
