Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2009/10/11

Wednesday 12:25

drying out and recovering after morning walk interrupted by surprise hailstorm [Original.]

Wednesday 20:47

@dogcow my god that is fugly! got a good mind to send the daleks in at them [Original, responding to @dogcow.]

Wednesday 21:30

Grrr, google has link telling me "Download picasa 3.5", click on link - picasa 3.5 for Windows & Mac, 3.0 for linux. #google #picasa #FAIL [Original.]

Thursday 10:30

@ben has coffee, still goes ugh [Original, responding to @ben.]

Thursday 12:03

returns from 2wks leave, finds job assigned to cow-orker side-lined with a RTFM. FFS! Created job because I *had* RTFM and wanted it DONE [Original.]

Thursday 16:21

cow-orker states that software was not provided as requested since he wanted me to confirm that I wanted it to be provided. AARRGGGGG! [Original.]

Thursday 16:46

If you commit a crime and the record is expunged for a first offence, what happens if you then commit another crime - record or no record? [Original.]

Friday 09:10

Johnette Napolitano singing Midnight oil's Beds are Burning, oddly reminiscent of Davros singing at one point. Scary voice lady [Original.]

Friday 10:04

pines for the days when people went to gigs to see bands, not to hold up phones to make crap blurry films to upload to youtube to get cred [Original.]

Friday 11:09

crashes Lotus Notes 8.5 by the incredibly complex action of clicking the mouse... NSD is running (s/running/crawling/). [Original.]

Friday 22:02

Adrian wishes he could stop sneezing.: wishes he could stop sneezing. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717182007&story_fbid=164296397000 [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.