Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2010/05/16

Monday 13:54

"Conroy pledges not to broaden filter scope" . www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/10/2894468.htm . FFS, he's a politician, he lies for a living [Original.]

Monday 15:08

meaningless performance plan/review time, someone noticed that the oft-postponed Jan. review was never rescheduled. paperwork needed now! [Original.]

Tuesday 14:01

weird noises from outside in the car-park; suspects someone is torturing a mastodon [Original.]

Tuesday 15:13

amused that headline article on intraweb is a) a year old b) proudly proclaiming an increase of 70% in power. Not #greenIT [Original.]

Tuesday 16:34

RT @abcnewsVic: Thousands of pirate videos seized by police www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/11/2896391.htm Errol Flynn, eat yer heat out [Original.]

Wednesday 09:19

Three days in a row RGH775 parks his car blocking the bike path, on the fourth day we invoke the parking inspektors viva la council! [Original.]

Wednesday 09:33

tries to find out how to get a server turned off, unused since Oct-2008 #greenIT #FAIL [Original.]

Wednesday 13:52

today's peculiar noise from outside in the carpark: sounds like Jacques Cousteau/scuba noises [Original.]

Wednesday 16:04

...now where did I put my clown hat [Original.]

Thursday 13:34

once again Lotus Notes/Domino #IMAP #FAIL [Original.]

Thursday 17:20

...and in herring news, "Giant herring found in Sweden" www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/12/2897292.htm 3.5m, wowwee, that's one big herring! [Original.]

Thursday 21:30

@dogcow whats the gig in corsica? [Original, responding to @dogcow.]

Thursday 21:34

@dogcow I'd go just for the "distributed pattern recoginition" :-P Corsica sounds cool, nearly went there once... [Original, responding to @dogcow.]

Friday 15:18

@pmcneil web forums are a crap way of forcing page views on what should be a newsforum. NNTP works [Original, responding to @pmcneil.]

Sunday 13:43

returns from expedition; had donned safari jacket and pith helmet to bag himself the biggest fridge possible for a 69cm wide fridge-'ole [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.