Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2009/11/08

Wednesday 09:53

ubuntu 9.10 syslog filling up with "Temperature/speed normal" someone please shut it up! [Original.]

Wednesday 09:58

@wally put big sign on it "DO NOT BANG KNEE HERE" [Original, responding to @wally.]

Thursday 09:18

tradesman has measured 82x204cm doorway and confirmed 82x204cm doorway. all stuff-ups of door size now tradesman problem [Original.]

Thursday 09:27

blocks @JohnHalderman MLM home-business rubbish [Original.]

Thursday 10:19

wonders if he can become some kind of pied-piper figure; attract all the MLM spammers in twitter to one place, then drown them [Original.]

Friday 09:55

searches for somewhere, anywhere, that will sell @drobo in australia for less than double the US price! #RIPOFF [Original.]

Friday 13:51

goes for a lunchtime walk and finds a perfectly good #akubra thrown away... acquires akubra for own use [Original.]

Friday 17:05

recieves an astounding cumbersome invitation - 2 PDF and 1 JPG attachment, two URLs "just in case". Why not use the bloody calendar? [Original.]

Saturday 15:48

Oh great, new Vic. road laws seem to make it illegal to pull out when overtaking cyclists - motorist MUST NOT cross white line [Original.]

Saturday 21:13

wish my chinese neighbours would not throw all their garbage straight over the fence onto the street, in this country we have garbage bins [Original.]

Sunday 14:20

@ben twitpic.com/opi26 - My wife lost her favourite flatcat umbrella two weeks ago on the Glen Waverly line. is that the one? [Original, responding to @ben.]

Sunday 16:02

returns from a bike ride and wonders if it's beer o'clock yet [Original.]

Sunday 20:03

@llenrup Haha, caught you... eventually. Odd, since I think I have the full set here, including the first one [Original, responding to @llenrup.]

Sunday 22:16

Thoroughly frustrated at cheap OVT film scanner and PhotoImpression software. Arcsof, OVT, these products are #CRAP [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.