Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2009/09/06

Monday 10:20

@DKLeather i didn't want to be lost in the rush, so happy birthday one day later cuz [Original, responding to @DKLeather.]

Monday 11:22

...the bite of the common or garden toddler, whilst non-toxis, can be exceptionally painful [Original.]

Monday 12:43

last day of winter, grey skies, icy cold rain, sodden washing flaps on the line, apricot blossom blasted off the trees, coffee and toasties [Original.]

Monday 17:57

@dogcow Passed a doctor's surgery yesterday; Dr Phillip Graves [Original, responding to @dogcow.]

Monday 20:14

just voted "Pastafarian! :D" on "Show Us Twitter's Religious Diversity." vote too ➔ pollpigeon.com/show-us-twitters-religious-diversity/t/17552/ [Original.]

Wednesday 11:27

Oakleigh, 11am, another pedestrian crossing, another obese driver in another 4WD ignores the crossing and tries to flatten the pram [Original.]

Wednesday 12:02

Help job from 2008.05.11 finally closed, "This bug will not be fixed". Yay IBM & Lotus Notes, both broken and slow. [Original.]

Wednesday 12:16

$ sudo dpkg -r ibm-lotus-notes ibm-lotus-sametime [Original.]

Wednesday 21:36

watches "Elephants Dream" and goes "Oh, was that it" at the end. #dissapointed [Original.]

Thursday 13:23

#Observant cow-orker notices that I only work three days a week - since five months ago! [Original.]

Thursday 21:21

wastes an hour of his life reinstalling Lotus Notes, gets exactly the same error. Cannot read Mail. Cannot read Calendar. #WOFTAM #FAIL [Original.]

Friday 09:29

RT @timbray: Go to page number. Obvious once you hear the idea: info.org.il/english/spoken_directions_to_web_content.html #usability [Original.]

Friday 10:34

RIP Mr percival, I had no idea you were still alive [Original.]

Friday 11:06

dack.com/web/bullshit.html "enhance cross-platform initiatives" "optimize scalable relationships" "facilitate strategic content" [Original.]

Friday 13:50

#thunder, #lightning ... fingers crossed, the mains power here a'twerk aint the most reliable #understatement [Original.]

Friday 20:23

joey the magnificent solves the 9-letter word puzzle, wonders why they won't print FART as one of yesterday's words [Original.]

…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.