Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2009/08/30

Monday 10:06

15 month old has deposited first piece of electronics in the toilet - I suspect this will not be the last time [Original.]

Monday 10:22

Mr 15mths rocks out to Johnny Cash, the lad has taste [Original.]

Monday 10:23

@dogcow now all we need is to cross-breed it with the Mongolian Death Worm [Original, responding to @dogcow.]

Monday 20:31

receives spam from a "Prudence Simmons", starts humming Dear Prudence to himself... [Original.]

Tuesday 08:58

Dilbert knows my pain dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-08-24/ #Lotus_Notes [Original.]

Tuesday 16:22

@enyap_ynot last windstorm blew all the oranges off, the branches are up higher now and don't hit us anymore [Original, responding to @enyap_ynot.]

Tuesday 17:13

battens down the hatches and raises the metaphoric storm jib. #melbourne #weather [Original.]

Wednesday 12:02

2 months ago friend got told, "all staff 10% reduction in pay, 10% reduction in hours". Now asked, "100% hours for no extra pay". #GFC [Original.]

Wednesday 12:30

Lotus Notes has decided I have no mail folder, fine by me you piece of self-destructing crap. [Original.]

Wednesday 12:51

"A Domino Web Access script error has occurred that might result in missing data..." again, and again, and again, and again. #WOFTAM [Original.]

Wednesday 21:24

@tadrian NFI what "replace design" is and don't care. I just follow my IT support staf as they stuff it further and further up. #Lotus #FAIL [Original, responding to @tadrian.]

Wednesday 21:45

wonders how many months it is since he sat in a cinema and watched a movie [Original.]

Thursday 09:09

Reboots w-cl28-g34-c to Linux 2.6.28-15-generic: [Original.]

Thursday 10:37

Nine month old network comms problem likely to be solved by ostrich approach. Cow-orkers ignoring system and hoping it goes away. [Original.]

Friday 09:52

RT @abcnewsVic: On your locobike! www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/28/2669477.htm - careful choice of rail lines essential! [Original.]

Friday 10:15

Options: a) send one calendar invite to 200+ people. b) send them three emails and let all 200 manually update their own calendars. #WOFTAM [Original.]

Friday 12:23

newspaper headline du jour: "Penis fire led to death" [Original.]

Friday 17:03

leverage, going forward, framework, exemplary, end of the day, BINGO [Original.]

Friday 17:07

@dogcow blessed are those who go endlessly around and around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels [Original, responding to @dogcow.]

…The Site

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.