@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Aug 26, 2025 · 1 minute read · Update at Aug 26, 2025 · Image Credit
7.90km / 25:12 / 58m / 13.0°C
While I was stopped at the lights for Clayton Road a co-commuter caught up so was company for the rest of the way to work. Definitely went easy on me so I could keep up and talk, I know who has all the QOMs around here! Amusing comment of the ride while talking about the commute-to-campus map, “Why isn’t the North Road bike lane on it?” … “It’s so bad we just don’t want to even mention it”
Light rain, 15°C, Feels like 14°C, Humidity 67%, Wind 4m/s from NW - 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.