@ Adrian Tritschler · Friday, Aug 1, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Aug 1, 2025 · Image Credit
7.88km / 27:12 / 58m / 3.0°C
No apparent frost on the grass, but it must have been as close as you can get without freezing. Everything wet with icy cold dew, the Garmin happily telling me that it got down to 1.8°C in the dark shady places near Huntingdale station
Down near the end of Oxford street a large black feral cat raced out of one patch of thick blackberry bushes and vanished into another, I guess it gets well fed here on the feral pigeons that get grain put out for them … and the rats that eat the grain
Few clouds, 4°C, Feels like 4°C, Humidity 91%, Wind 1m/s from NE - 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.
