@ Adrian Tritschler · Wednesday, Feb 4, 2009 · 1 minute read · Update at Feb 4, 2009 ·
Given the enormous number of toys that young Cam has to play with, what do you think would be his favourite things? Is it the stacking cups, the boxes, the wobbly inflatable thing, the mirror or the rings?
Of course not. Like kids everywhere he has more fun with the cardboard box than with the toy that it contained. Having stocked the house with far too many baby toys he finds the most fascinating things are; the track pump, a length of aluminium tubing, the cast-iron door-stopper, the door itself and the rattly handles on the coffee-table drawers.
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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.
