Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2010/06/13

Monday 12:50

cow-orker being stuffed about by US support staff who fail to understand timezones - chat invites at 23:00 Friday, 08:05 Saturday. #FAIL [Original.]

Monday 22:40

is now somewhat terrified of the apparent fragility of Novell's iFolder software and mono. I broke it, but NFI how I fixed then it.... [Original.]

Tuesday 10:08

RT what an unfortunate place to trim a URL @stephenfry: ... from Heston B - www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/carrots_glazed_with_47422 [Original.]

Tuesday 19:27

Make Senator Conroy choose between his Internet filter and his job - filter-conroy.org [Original.]

Wednesday 09:00

7.0C and raining, free parking at Monash this week -- just the once, no bike today, I'll take the bike [Original.]

Wednesday 09:40

@enyap_ynot they do that. For ten years I've had cow-orkers ask "What do you do when it rains?". Ans. "Get wet" [Original, responding to @enyap_ynot.]

Wednesday 11:15

asks the lazy web for a working iFolder3 client for ubuntu [Original.]

Wednesday 13:39

wonders where bund has gone... [Original.]

Wednesday 15:47

@VictoriaPolice, is driving a car "a hobby"? walking across a road "a hobby"? why perpetuate cycling as "a hobby" www.vicpolicenews.com.au/online-chat.html [Original, responding to @VictoriaPolice.]

Thursday 09:35

surprise find on the bike path riding to work this morning - 4tonne truck reversing around corner towards me. BEEP BEEP SCREEECH no thud. [Original.]

Thursday 10:50

Reboots w-cl28-g34-c to Linux 2.6.32-22-generic: why not [Original.]

Thursday 20:58

@dogcow, 'tis not the weather for gelato; Earl Grey & Chocolate in this part of the world [Original, responding to @dogcow.]

Friday 09:13

I liked a YouTube video -- Brian Blessed Sat Nav Prototype youtu.be/-JpKuYbJQK4?a [Original.]

Friday 11:29

gives in to temptation and may live to regret it... @dogcow @ben [Original.]

Friday 14:02

Here we go again, Conroy and his cronies; surveillance & censorship are their middle names www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1276352/Canberra-wants-browser-histories:-Reports #nocleanfeed [Original.]

Friday 14:38

Cow-orker's writing "Many files the system folder are not there" "server can not has lost all commucation" "remote console does not" [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.