Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2009/11/29

Monday 08:21

has 9mm of rain and two dead beetles in the rain-guage [Original.]

Monday 10:25

"The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." #WINDOZE WHAT F*#@$ING PROCESS. #OfflineFiles #FAIL [Original.]

Thursday 09:35

Reboots w-cl28-g34-c to Linux 2.6.31-15-generic: ubuntu kernel update 2.6.31-15-generic [Original.]

Thursday 12:24

updates video drivers via www.devicedoctor.com/ and renders laptop unusable. #FAIL [Original.]

Thursday 16:39

@enyap_ynot I was on holiday in NZ, can neither confirm nor deny any volunteering [Original, responding to @enyap_ynot.]

Thursday 20:34

sore back from spine-twisting taxi avoidance maneuver on the bike in the rain. GIVE WAY sign you pricks, not a FLOOR IT sign! [Original.]

Friday 08:39

suspects that his wet cycling shoes could be classified as a biological hazard [Original.]

Friday 09:09

new road laws? can't say I noticed. Six motorists overtook where they shouldn't, including one police car! #Melbourne [Original.]

Friday 11:41

has a google wave account... now what? [Original.]

Friday 13:14

almost tropical lunchtime walk; cicadas and humidity and smells of eucalypts and native herbs [Original.]

Friday 14:19

RT @cfsmtb: Pls RT VicPol: Hit-run on cyclist, today 8.10am, 27/11, Gertrude St, Fitzroy. Appeal for witnesses www.vicpolicenews.com.au/more-news/2248-appeal-for-witnesses-to-collision-in-fitzroy.html [Original.]

Friday 15:59

3 of 8 servers crash on reboot, 3 of 8 servers have Sophos anti-virus s/w, disable a-v s/w, 8 of 8 servers boot. #SOPHOS #OES2 [Original.]

Friday 19:18

rock-paper-scissors; a WIN, the stinky nappy task is reallocated to the loser. #BIOHAZARD #WIN [Original.]

Saturday 20:11

nom nom nom baked flathead [Original.]

Sunday 13:43

Swaps scruffy old unused-for-four-years Honda CBX750 for a slab of beer, both parties happy with the deal [Original.]

Sunday 13:49

Takes apart un-shiftable XT thumbshifter that should never be taken apart - discovers broken ratchet. Bother. #NORCO #MTB #bicycle #EXPENSE [Original.]

Sunday 18:22

I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets - w33.us/ae1 [Original.]

Sunday 19:39

@enyap_ynot viking knows already, anyway, it went to a good home, one of the chosen few #teamRC17 flic.kr/p/7j6ebL [Original, responding to @enyap_ynot.]

Sunday 20:57

@cfsmtb seems serious, people like cute visualisations of all their words of wisdom [Original, responding to @cfsmtb.]

…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.