8 o’clock and time to walk down to the supermarket for bread. A
male Gang-gang[1] flies creaking out of the trees and across the
road. Magpies[2], currawongs[3], wattlebirds[4] and a NH
honeyeater on the way down the hill. Wood ducks and black ducks in
the river, a solitary kookaburra on the grass. On the way back a
pair of king parrots and one crimson rosella, others calling from
the trees. Some swallows, lots of blue wrens flitting about, back
to the house with sulphur crested cockies[5] circling overhead
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.
