Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2010/06/27

Monday 19:24

returns from 4 day holiday - 2 hour flight with toddler w/ conjunctivitis, chronic cough & bad cold - desperately needs holiday to recover [Original.]

Tuesday 12:38

Australia makes fibre official: no more copper... - arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/06/telstra-joins-aussie-fiber-plan-no-more-copper-wires-ever.ars via @arstechnica - C21st infrastructure, mediaeval govm't mentality [Original.]

Tuesday 16:06

Google, why does groups.google.com/ UI suck so much? email to gmail good, newsgroup to google groups is appalling! [Original.]

Wednesday 12:39

#qotd: "you can't chop peas with a fork". wisdom of a two year old. [Original.]

Wednesday 18:04

receives cold-call telephone #scam "about computer errors in your area" and wanting me to login to my desktop and run... told him #STFU [Original.]

Wednesday 19:34

RT @pmcneil: @ajft you got caller id?? - don't think so, and I'm guessing it was an O/S callcentre "Globalmax mumble IT" "microsoft partner" [Original.]

Wednesday 20:19

loves the internet, finds his "Global Max" #scam so fast forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1057308&p=5 [Original.]

Thursday 09:02

unseasonably warm morning for a winter's ride to work - spoiled by yet another %@#$T^@#$5 parked blocking the bike track in no-parking spot [Original.]

Thursday 09:58

@enyap_ynot pedestrian and bike access to carpark buggered too, wheelchair access completely removed. we all loves building works [Original, responding to @enyap_ynot.]

Thursday 10:26

#flickr has new photo page appearance, me likes [Original.]

Thursday 13:10

Australian government, under new management, same old lousy service [Original.]

Thursday 14:08

enjoys a lunch-time walk and stalks a pair of buff-banded rail around a pond -- sneaky sods, no photos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buff-banded_Rail [Original.]

Friday 13:25

RT @MonashResearch: Monash cycling safety research smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/putting-a-brake-on-traffic-speed-across-inner-city-to-protect-cyclists-20100624-z3py.html - drivers don't obey current 50km/hr limit, what use a lower limit? [Original.]

Sunday 14:13

@Cos steamrail victoria on the Glen Waverly line [Original, responding to @Cos.]

…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.