Reading a fictional diary about time and memory and earlier today a
factual diary with references that stirred up memories; Kurt
Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five – I have memories of reading one of
Vonnegut’s books while in high school, around year eight or nine I
suspect, probably that one, none of the other titles look familiar.
A debt owed to Ian I suspect, a highschool friend with an older
brother, so through him we learnt of authors, of things to do with
bike racing and touring, and of 2XX, at a time when Canberra had
two government radio stations; 2CY and 2CN, and two commercial; 2CA
and 2CC.
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
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.
