Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2009/11/22

Monday 09:14

monday morning/quietly the toddler plays with/a usb cable, a spanish phrase book, a small screwdriver [Original.]

Tuesday 15:30

three hours into the Windows 7 upgrade of the slaptop, ugh. [Original.]

Tuesday 15:35

uh oh, can smell gum tree/bushfire smoke.. [Original.]

Wednesday 15:07

doing the Windows 7 upgrade dance, reinstall this, reinstall that, update update update, patch patch path. WE HATESES IT [Original.]

Thursday 13:29

every time I see "capsicum spray" I think of an ancient muzzle loader full of red and green peppers [Original.]

Thursday 16:29

Reboots w-cl28-g34-c to Linux 2.6.31-14-generic: cow-orker whacked da reset button [Original.]

Friday 13:34

returns from lunch, sweltering, passing @kml on the way [Original, responding to @kml.]

Friday 13:34

@DKLeather tell me about it cousin, then there's the fixup and labelling... [Original, responding to @DKLeather.]

Friday 15:25

heh heh, he said "moving forward" heh heh. #mindless #bureaucracy #gibberish [Original.]

Friday 16:47

Dear cow-orkers, please LEARN TO READ and then, STFU [Original.]

Friday 16:48

cow-orker now whinging about the difficulty of carrying picnic blanket while queueing for christmas lunch. #STFU [Original.]

Friday 16:48

cow-orker now whinging about carrying foldup chairs on bus. #STFU !!! THAT IS IT, I GIVE UP, I GO HOME NOW [Original.]

Sunday 11:45

shares a cup of invisible soup with an imaginative little boy [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.