Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Coffee in the first café that we came to, just around the corner from Paddington station — Jo suddenly realised that it used to be a florist that she walked past nearly every day.
Joe and Paddy had been up the river to Beale on Saturday, but both of them enjoy the boats and the river, so off we all went again for a day in the sun at the Inland Waterways Association’s annual festival. Strolling around in the hot sun and looking at the dry grass, it was hard to tell that we were on the banks of the Thames, and not at a country show somewhere in Australia in summer time.

There’s not much more I can add to who I am.
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.