Could see her coming a mile off, sailing down the hill, straight through the Give Way sign and across the bike path where she should have stopped. I stopped the bike with the front wheel on the crossing and shook my head in amusement as she passed, then burst out laughing as 50m down the road she stopped in the middle of the block where there’s no crossing in order to let a woman walking a dog cross the road in front of her. Aussie drivers, they’re in a class of their own…
Scattered clouds, 16°C, Feels like 15°C, Humidity 76%, Wind 1m/s from SE - by Klimat
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.
