Short-form Fragments

Week ending Sunday 2010/07/25

Monday 10:38

@dogcow interrogate? shutthebloodygate? [Original, responding to @dogcow.]

Monday 11:39

ponders the meaning of nanafabrication. [Original.]

Tuesday 10:09

wonders why twitter.com/ecaacaa wants to be his friend on 4sq [Original.]

Tuesday 10:23

russian girly spam "Speaking about my hobbies, I like to draw pictures with oil and coal." Draws with coal, one hard woman! [Original.]

Tuesday 11:21

Aaargh, bright spark has had idea that periodic pwd changes are better than one secure password - now have to relearn finger pattern [Original.]

Tuesday 12:27

cow-orker has not yet come to terms with new coffee pot. Yeehaa, that is strong [Original.]

Tuesday 14:42

new dilbert-land office has icy draft at floor level. need corporate #fluffyslippers [Original.]

Tuesday 15:19

Fed up with apple releasing 100M plus of iTunes X followed by 100M plus of iTunes X.0.1 a week or two later. binary patch anyone? [Original.]

Wednesday 10:21

Boom, half-hour meeting. entire work life is restructured. now has drop-dead date of dec 2010 to do the impossible with the unavailable [Original.]

Wednesday 10:54

@ben all that and more [Original, responding to @ben.]

Thursday 09:07

@ben www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/07/pc-giant-warns-of-hardware-tro.html #Dell [Original, responding to @ben.]

Friday 12:47

we've been saturated by rain, now to be saturated by police. Better than being saturated by a drunk.. www.vicpolicenews.com.au/more-news/4537-police-flood-into-monash.html [Original.]

Friday 13:10

Thank you Monash City Council for that 33% increase in my annual rates, I can assume that I'll be getting an equivalent increase in services [Original.]

Saturday 17:26

@ben hah, we used to get both natural light _and_ natural rain water in our office.. you guys have it now :) [Original, responding to @ben.]

Sunday 13:37

DOOF DOOF DOOF BWOOMP BWOOMP - all the latest Bollywood hits at 140dB from the neighbours' house [Original.]

Sunday 20:27

@nasyabahfen @ben overheard yesterday some second generation greek migrants ranting in coffee shop about asian migrants "taking aussie jobs" [Original, responding to @ben.]

…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.