Don’t worry, they were only plastic snakes though – a table full of them, free for the taking at the side of the road. Just one of the many curiosities you come across riding around the suburbs
Prior to that, an enjoyably sunny lap of Karkarook lake and the bit of Clarinda that will very soon be plowed into mud and covered in concrete, converted from bushland parkland to concrete train stabling wasteland
Scattered clouds, 14°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 76%, Wind 0m/s from WSW - 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.
