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Female Gang-gang cockatoo in a hawthorn bush
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Gang-gangs in the trees
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!. Walking along the path we looked up to see a pair of Gang-gang cockatoos almost within arm’s reach, busy cracking open the hawthorn berries and showering us with bits of tree. The male was too high to photograph — a shame, they are magnificently coloured — but I could reach the camera up to get a clear line-of-sight to the female.
Three hours later when we walked past again they were still there; still gorging themselves on the berries.
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Miscellaneous dilbert-esque things on my work computer
Piracy!
I guess I must be a thief. I guess that’s what the Australian music industry is telling me anyway. I tried putting the four new CDs from last weekend into the PC in order to read the track info into my local CD database — Johnny Cash has no problems, the Paul Kelly CD won’t read, won’t play… Closer investigation shows that it is copy protected which explains why it keeps skipping in the CD player at Lorne and the CD player at home.
Twisties
Ow! Ripped off by a snack-food company. Or ripped off more than usual! Curiosity got the better of me and I thought I’d try the all new all-singing, all-dancing flavour-enhanced and life-beautifying Wicked Cheddar Twisties. Too late I noticed that while they’re the same price as the ordinary Twisties, and that the packet is the same size as the ordinary Twisties, the packet only holds 30g rather than 50g! I must get into the snack food business, at $50 per kilogram it must have quite a profit margin…
![Journal for [2004-03-02 Tue]](https://ajft.org/img/default1.jpg)
Journal for [2004-03-02 Tue]
Another day out riding, another stupid driver goes screaming around me and turns left, missing my elbow by fractions of an inch and screeching around the corner to get in ahead of the traffic coming off the lights on Waverley road. Guilty-looking woman in a 4WD, (Victorian registration, ######), I guess at least she looked back in the rear mirror to see if she’d killed anyone…
Which reminds me that Mr Policeman didn’t ever call me back to follow up on the road-rage that I reported.
Spell chequer?
The newspapers seem to be relying more and more heavily on spell-checkers and less and less on proof-reading articles. There was a masterpiece today that provoked much mirth on various cycling mail lists:
[http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8831097%255E13569,00.html]
Costal areas on cycle watch
By RAJIV MAHARAJ
March 1, 2004
A low hovering over the Top End may yet develop into a category one cyclone…
I do not think that is the word you meant to use…
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Jo and some of the Geelong bollard sculptures
The weekend works its magic
Half the weekend gone and I’m starting to feel human, by Monday morning I guess I’ll be back to normal and ready to face the world again!
After breakfast we decided to go for a walk up the Erskine river, after checking out the newer houses going up higher and higher up the hill. Some of them are huge, I dread to think what they sell for! Balanced on poles three storeys up above the hillside, attempting to simultaneously blend in with environment and yet maintain the best view possible.
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Sulphur-crested cockatoo
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Unidentified large dark seabird
Grumpy bear
I’m supposed to be having a pleasant weekend at Lorne with some friends — instead I’m as grumpy as a bear with a sore head and unfit for human company, let alone that of my friends. All because of a week of stupidities of last-minute panics at work as everything that should have been done over the summer break suddenly rises up and faces us.
Did the usual Lorne weekend things, a leisurely breakfast, reading the paper spread all over the floor, down the hill for a walk along the shop-fronts, then out to the pier to watch the fishermen.
MLP — Bookmarks for [2004-02-27 Fri]
Rocks: Reliable Sockets:
The “Mini-Cluster”:
More accounts
Created myself an account at http://allconsuming.net/, added a couple of books, then had a look at Leigh Dodds’ XSL transforms to turn the XML reading list from Allconsuming into RDF. I think that I’ve got it. RDF reading list.
…and then another new account. This one on http://del.icio.us/. A shared bookmark manager. Threw in a few of my scribbled-down URLs for all to see http://del.icio.us/ajft, or to access via RSS.
MLP — Bookmarks for [2004-02-26 Thu]
Slyck’s Guide to The Newsgroups:
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Abandoned bicycle in Gardiners creek
Road rager part II
Yesterday’s events must have shaken me a little more than I realised. Couldn’t get to sleep until well after 2 am, being chased by a nutter in a car kept replaying over and over in my head.
But so far so good… One successful pass along Cole crescent this morning without running into yesterday’s road rager. I still can’t make up my mind whether to try and pursue it with the police.
Spam
These random word lists in the latest batches of spam are getting quite weird. Sometimes they almost seem to be saying something. I wonder if I could rig up a script to repopulate a dictionary from them? From yet-another-online-bank-scam comes: /blacksmith, glossed, papa, sarcasm, concession, riemann, arsenic, seacoast, chisel, dramatic, brent, synchrotron, stonehenge./
Road Rager
Today was going so well until I turned right from the bike path into Drummond street in Chadstone, a 50km/hr zone, and was riding towards my normal left-turn into Cole crescent. As I got to the corner, Mr agressive petrol-head in a white ford falcon station wagon (Victorian registration ###-###), came flying over the speed hump behind me, half overtook me then attempted to go screaming around the left turn into Cole crescent.
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Three beers from the Braidwood brewery
Journal for [2004-02-22 Sun]
The two weeks of thirty-degree or higher weather broke overnight with the arrival of a cooler change and a tiny amount of rain. We woke up to a cool house — at last — and a pair of absolutely crazy dogs. Both Boris and Scarlet were suddenly full of boundless energy, racing back and forth and sniffing at all the wonderful wet garden smells.
After breakfast, Mum and Dad and Jo and I headed out to Braidwood for the morning, an ex-gold-mining town two-thirds of the way from Canberra to the NSW South Coast.
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Liz's 30th birthday cake
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Ryan, Luke and Reece at Liz's 30th birthday party
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Ryan and Reece at Liz's 30th birthday party
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Luke, demonstrating the effects of red cordial
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Sammie at her mum's 30th, in her wedding dress
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Zoe at her mum's 30th
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Casey at her mum's 30th
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Liz arriving at her surprise 30th birthday party
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Liz arriving at her surprise 30th birthday party
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The remains of a BMW Z3
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Heygate farm's current rooster
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Cacti in the garden
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Looking to the east
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Tangled old wysteria vines
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The Royal Hotel, Bungendore
About
ajft looking stylish and black
…The Owner
There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
…The Site
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.
…The ISP
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