Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2010/06/20

Monday 09:22

RT 'Shtraya is the usual pronunciation @ben: Twitter #worldcup #fail - It's "Australia" not "Austrailia" @twitter twitpic.com/1wl9tg [Original.]

Monday 09:25

Police presence over the weekend? Only one car, and that was attending the ijut who parked sideways into the forest. #commodorecornering [Original.]

Monday 10:28

has been restructured. Boing! boss has new boss. [Original.]

Monday 13:34

I uploaded a YouTube video -- Rainbow over Lorne youtu.be/0jBHMSPO3jE?a [Original.]

Monday 13:56

Flickr can't digest 3gp videos from Nokia6233, why am I not surprised. Nokia, non-compliant? never... [Original.]

Monday 18:05

one week to the winter solstice and some damn fool leaves his bike lights at home -- races the sun, gets home jit #stealthbike [Original.]

Tuesday 09:29

Ugh. email from erentals.co.uk trying to get me to place links to their site and "favourable reviews" somewhere under my control. No thanks. [Original.]

Tuesday 12:12

Ah, work has not been done by those who it was requested of because I didn't supply them with information they didn't ask for... #mindreader [Original.]

Tuesday 14:58

on discovering that corporate desk calendar is still on February; suspects that it isn't used very often - tosses it [Original.]

Tuesday 19:28

running toddler learns about coefficient of friction of sock on polished floorboards [Original.]

Wednesday 09:54

has an american vs english english moment. A Boo-E ? WTF Aha en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoy Americans choose to pronounce it ala France [Original.]

Wednesday 10:45

Discovers vacancy for proofreader in corporate document writing office; affect/effect, loose/lose #fail/#fail [Original.]

Wednesday 11:20

RT @pmcneil: is "starthere" star there or start here? not sure, we live near a school of bartending with a similar problem - poor bart [Original.]

Wednesday 11:41

over hears "issue" and "in terms of" nine times between cow-orkers, #parrot #bureaucracy [Original.]

Wednesday 13:33

returns from what may be the silliest corporate fitness event ever; a walk/run that had a tiddly cycling option tacked on as an afterthought [Original.]

Wednesday 15:03

Yeouch, apparently listening to iPod makes trams invisible "did not see or hear the tram in front of him" www.theage.com.au/victoria/cyclist-listening-to-ipod-struck-by-tram-20100616-yfcc.html [Original.]

Wednesday 21:37

drives around to three servos trying to find one that'll sell car headlight bulbs, not just junk food and magazines [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.