@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007 · 1 minute read · Update at Oct 16, 2007 ·
Oddness. Placing my mouth to the information firehose for a daily catchup via google reader there’s two mentions of pumpkin in two adjacent items — not quite adjacent, I think there were three not-so-interesting ones in between. Norman Walsh plays with Ajax and on his demo portal the first twittering is:
mattb: apparently the UK is experiencing a severe pumpkin shortage due to recent weather. what will we do? (about 8 hours ago)
Second item in a cycling group on Flickr, titled “Pumpkin Runner”, a man jogging carrying a pumpkin.
I guess the northern hemisphere’s pumpkin season makes it all a little more understandable…
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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.