@ Adrian Tritschler · Sunday, Aug 24, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Aug 24, 2025 · Image Credit
32.13km / 1:50:32 / 336m / 16.0°C
First swoop of the season, two close passes somewhere in Glen Waverley on the Scotchmans Creek trail - time to dust off the magpie alert webpage
A wonderful sunny Sunday afternoon, down along Scotchmans Creek Trail to Jells Park and around the park then up through Glen Waverley, into the traffic mayhem and out the other side, and follow the trail alongside the railway back down to Waverley Road, then pick and choose random streets home again
Clear sky, 14°C, Feels like 14°C, Humidity 63%, Wind 2m/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.