Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2009/09/20

Monday 12:25

via @dogcow wow, cycling dedication. Keiichi Iwasaki travels across 37 countries on $2 www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/news/keiichi-iwasaki-travels-across-37-countries-on-2/story-e6frezi0-1225771971402 [Original.]

Monday 12:26

Cues up "People who Died" on the CD player. RIP Jim Carroll. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carroll [Original.]

Monday 13:37

101meg download for the latest #iTunes upgrade? Come on Apple, that isn't a FAT binary, that's OBESE! [Original.]

Tuesday 12:37

#QOTD: "By nightfall every living thing in Adelaide and the suburbs had been eaten" - bad 1930s SciFi mag. [Original.]

Tuesday 13:08

blocks @BrianaPitts for spamming [Original.]

Tuesday 20:56

curses loudly and comprehensively after dropping a couch on foot - while searching for the missing spoon mr toddler took. there is no spoon [Original.]

Tuesday 21:21

RIP Keith Floyd, *sigh* a glass of red and a salute of the stranglers CD to you sir [Original.]

Wednesday 11:35

sits at coffee shop for 20 min., 4 customers, a long wait with no waiter. Leaves, goes next door, 100+ customers, has order taken in 4 min. [Original.]

Thursday 09:34

Lotus Notes, SPAWN OF THE DEVIL, steal focus one more time and I KILL YOU WITH FIRE [Original.]

Thursday 12:11

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

Thursday 13:16

@dogcow you get minutes? you're one up on any meeting we have, no minutes, no agenda, no point [Original, responding to @dogcow.]

Thursday 14:52

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

Thursday 15:16

UbuntuOne, Dropbox, SpiderOak... 2G here, 2G there... how much free backup can I acquire? [Original.]

Thursday 16:08

@joshedmonds read some comprehensive analysis of these guys h/w, "on the cheap" was the key [Original, responding to @joshedmonds.]

Thursday 16:34

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

Thursday 17:09

FFS Seagate! Two disks, one version 3.05, one version 3.18. "No update available" for 3.05? #seagate #firmware #FAIL [Original.]

Friday 19:57

Crashes Windows explorer in Windows 7, that took all of 30 minutes. Same windoze shit, different version number or name. Microsoft #FAIL [Original.]

Saturday 12:38

Adrian Reads chinese horoscopes, amused to find a Metal Rat amongst his friends.: Reads chinese horoscopes, amus.. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717182007&story_fbid=135309879915 [Original.]

Sunday 19:38

RT @cfsmtb: Pls RT! Female cyclist hit on Beach Rd on Sat 19/9 Can you help find witnesses? www.melbournecyclist.com/group/advocacy/forum/topics/anyone-see-the-car-driving [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.