Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2009/12/06

Monday 13:59

disposes of incomprehensible subcontinent door-to-door insulation salesman with obscured id badge - sadly not in a shallow grave [Original.]

Monday 14:02

Aargh, paid massive tax bill to #ATO two months ago - put wrong ID code in, money vanished, now receive COMMENCEMENT OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS [Original.]

Monday 14:45

Contacts the #ATO to untangle account - with the amazing speed of modern electronic banking, money will flow from A to B in a mere two weeks [Original.]

Monday 14:51

eye of sauron :) - mention product on twitter on Friday, get useful followup support call from vendor on Monday - #SOPHOS #OES2 [Original.]

Monday 20:33

australia should pioneer carbon-sequestration technology - starting with the carbon in federal politicians' bodies [Original.]

Tuesday 14:24

receives unexpected email in his inbox from December 13! No, not two weeks in the future, from 13-Dec-2007. #LOTUS #NOTES #FAIL [Original.]

Wednesday 20:34

yay #clonezilla - a relatively painless disk upgrade on the laptop. 300G, ah, elbow room [Original.]

Thursday 15:47

we don't get rain no more, we have "rain events". #bureaucratic #twaddle [Original.]

Friday 12:36

@craigfis take a double entendre and apply the split infinitive [Original, responding to @craigfis.]

Saturday 12:03

TV time shift failure - attempt to record "Mars Attackes" results in a recorded Woody Allan movie. #FAIL [Original.]

Sunday 14:40

is reunited with his mountainbike for the amazingly low price of only $120 - #lastOfThe8SpeedThumbshifters [Original.]

Sunday 15:22

RT @dogcow @metalinjection RAMMSTEIN vs Cookie Monster - www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/4125/rammstein-vs-cookie-monster [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.