@ Adrian Tritschler · Tuesday, Aug 25, 2026 · 1 minute read · Update at Aug 25, 2026 · Image Credit
8.35 ㎞ / 25:54 / 39 m / 14.0 ℃
The rain has mostly drained away, but Scotchmans Creek Trail has some very muddy sections especially through the dingy tunnel under the freeway. Dark, wet and very slippery. Clouds of small insects whirling around in the damp air too, always a challenge not to inhale or en-eyeball them
Overcast, 14°C, Feels like 12°C, Humidity 78%, Wind 3m/s from SSW - 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.