@ Adrian Tritschler · Friday, Jan 9, 2026 · 1 minute read · Update at Jan 9, 2026 · Image Credit
16.23km / 1:08:34 / 172m / 32.0°C
Intention was to rejoin family, but the wind was too strong and blew me off the road too much. Sand and corrugations don’t help either. Called for the team car as I could not face the thought of riding along the GOR on a Friday evening with that wind buffeting me
… and I raise me cap to the cycle tourist quietly stealth camping in the bush at Bellbrae, may your tent pegs stay anchored tonight!
Light rain, 35°C, Feels like 33°C, Humidity 23%, Wind 10m/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.
