Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
Teeth
A very tooth-oriented morning. Off to the dentist at 9 o’clock, to be poked, prodded, probed and polished. Tax and dentistry — I seem to get around to both of them shortly before heading off overseas on a holiday.
Humevale hill
P-plates, Commodores, baseball-caps. What is it about the combination of the three that leads to such predictably abusive behaviour on the roads?
We’d decided to go for a bike ride from Bundoora to Kinglake West, a few warm-up kilometres along the flat, then the seven kilometre climb up through the forest along the Humevale road. A strong northerly wind made the Bundoora to Whittlesea leg more onerous than necessary, A brief pause at the petrol station before Whittlesea to refuel on jelly-babies, then four kilometres of the thoroughly unpleasant leg of the Plenty road before reaching the Humevale turnoff.
![Journal for [2003-07-26 Sat]](https://ajft.org/img/default3.jpg)
Journal for [2003-07-26 Sat]
No riding this Saturday! After last night’s icy cold winds and three days of almost constant rain, neither of us felt like getting up and going out on the bikes — and besides, it’s been nearly three weeks since we visited the markets, there’s half an eggplant left in the fridge, and that’s about all…
A bit of grocery shopping, a bit of breakfast, a bit of housework. Mind-boggling interesting stuff.
Journal for [2003-07-22 Tue]
Second day in a row of warm, almost Spring-like, weather in the evening. It made riding home such a change from the last few weeks! The warmer weather seems to have brought out the idiots too — two days in a row I’ve met the same guy who’s decided that he needs to ride with a red light on the front of his bike. Hopefully soon someone will kill him painlessly, before he causes anyone to crash avoiding him.
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The June entry for the 2003 Pasta Calendar Challenge
Journal for [2003-07-21 Mon]
Five degrees this morning and there was more frost along the river. After another night staying up to watch the live coverage of le Tour de France, it would have been very tempting to spend the rest of the morning in bed.
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Willows reflecting in the lake in the Botanic Gardens. Melbourne
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Palm trees on a deserted island... in a lake... in the Botanic Gardens
Journal for [2003-07-20 Sun]
This afternoon we headed over to the Botanic Gardens for a chance to get out of the house, a chance to get a little exercise, and a chance to wander around in the winter sun and watch the tourists.
A cool, misty sun shining over the city, and the distant sounds of the football made it all feel very wintery.
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A winter sunset from the balcony
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A winter sunset from the balcony
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Journal for [2003-07-19 Sat]
Another Saturday morning ride, running late this time we missed the start by ten minutes and rode down towards Mordialloc alone — or as alone as you can be on Beach road on a Saturday morning.
A winter sunset from the balcony Time to tidy up and catch up in the afternoon, I’m still writing up bits of my 1998 trip to Spain. Really ought to do this quicker, but the memories are still vivid, and my paper notebooks may well outlive this website anyway!
![Journal for [2003-07-17 Thu]](https://ajft.org/img/default1.jpg)
Journal for [2003-07-17 Thu]
And the latest bit of wisdom to arrive in an email attachment is a Windoze VB scripty thing containing the following:
kIlLeRgUaTe 1.03, I mAke ThIs vIrUs BeCaUsE I dOn'T hAvE NoThInG tO dO!! ~
Journal for [2003-07-16 Wed]
More fun and games with rsync from WinXP direct to wyvern. In the past I’ve used a two-stage way of getting my photos to home. First copy them from the WinXP laptop to the Solaris box at work, then go home and transfer from Solaris to Linux. Both steps used rsync over ssh, both were successful. In the last couple of weeks I’ve dialled in from home in the morning, then tried to rsync files direct from the laptop to home, invariably it fails with:
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False alarm at Monash University
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Joey, smiling but blurred
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2003 Bund Christmas dinner. (Kookoo, Melbourne)
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David/Bruce examing his camera
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Oliver and Kathryn. 2003 Bund Christmas dinner. (Kookoo, Melbourne)
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Mound of squid for Drew. 2003 Bund Christmas dinner. (Kookoo, Melbourne)
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Miscellaneous food. 2003 Bund Christmas dinner. (Kookoo, Melbourne)
Bund dinner
Half-way through the year, it must be time for the Bund christmas dinner. An earlier start than usual, someone decided that a 7 pm booking was OK! Jo and I were wondering just exactly where Kookoo was, but we met Michael on the tram and he’d been there before, so led the way in the unmarked doorway and upstairs to the bar.
Guff
http://www.custommaps.net/images/mwyedn1.htm: First edition Melways! http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_898675.htm: “Marriage may tame genius” (I guess I’d better be careful then!)
Journal for [2003-07-14 Mon]
Tired, sleepy, irritable. Tour de France live coverage. l’Alpe d’Huez.
Managed to drag myself out of bed this morning and make it to the point where I got to work. From there on it all seemed down hill. Warm and stuffy inside today, I’m trying hard not to fall asleep… and its only noon.
More electronic banking weirdness. This has happened before. The bank says I can’t use my credit card to pay my electricity bill because the electricity company won’t accept credit card payments.
Saturday morning ride
There’s a first time for everything; today we managed to get up, fed, dressed and out on the bikes by nine o’clock! Early enough to try and meet friends who have a 9:30 social ride every Saturday morning. The gods must have laughed, because today nobody except Rae turned up, according to her there are lots of people most mornings.
A pleasant enough sixty kilometres though. Almost down to Mordialloc before turning for the ride home — straight into the headwind.
Journal for [2003-07-10 Thu]
I’ve definitely got Jack’s cold. Last weekend of being climbed over, coughed over, and jumped over has left its mark — the common cold. Sneezes loud enough to wake the dead accompanied me on the ride to work.
Assorted councils seem to be indulging in some scorch-the-earth style of landscape gardening, all the way from the Yarra to Oakleigh, and covering three different councils! Major trees all seem to be being cut down, and there’s nothing in their place to fill the gaps.
Le Tour
Wow, day four of the Tour de France and Australians hold three of the four coloured jerseys! McGee’s still got the yellow, McEwen in green, and Baden Cooke in white. All this while the NSW government tries to put an end to cycle racing in NSW, and the newspapers continue to shower us with tennis coverage about Mark Philipousis losing!
More twins!
So that’s what the cryptic messages on my answering machine over the weekend were for. My sister did sound a trifle excited when she left them — I’m going to be an uncle… again. An uncle to twins… again! Those’ll be very big boots to fill if Jo and I ever have kids, especially after John’s comments at the wedding about twins running in the family!
MLP DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide:
Journal for [2003-07-06 Sun]
Spam Memorable event of the day — my first ever SMS spam, closely followed ten minutes later by my second ever SMS spam.:
Congratulations!! your number won US$30,000 login to <//WWW.MASS-LOTTERY.ORG> to claim username: 00767910791 password :6546546 :masslottery@mail15.com
Strange thing was that both came from South Africa, and I half thought it was a message from a colleague there…
Cycling This afternoon’s cycling adventure was a 38km loop up the Dean’s Marsh road from Lorne, then around through the — rapidly cooling — forest, and a screaming descent from Erskine falls back to Lorne.
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Jack trying to look angelic
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One of the fearless Kookaburras at Lorne
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One of the fearless Kookaburras at Lorne
Journal for [2003-07-05 Sat]
There’s bird-life and other wildlife all over the place every time we visit. King parrots, Crimson rosellas, Pied currawongs, Kookaburras and Magpies all come and feed off the balcony — but not all at the same time. The King parrots and Kookaburras will feed out of your hand, the magpies snatch food from your fingers, the currawongs are too shy with people, but scare all the others away! Assorted honeyeaters and tree-climbers flit around in the garden, never quite coming close enough to be positively identified.
Journal for [2003-07-02 Wed]
OK, I guess we’re going to Switzerland then! I finally managed to transfer €1,068.75 through Paypal. Airfares would be the next thing to organize…
No day is complete without the motorist du jour…. There I was, just leaving work this evening, glancing around as I hopped on my bike and started to ride off. I half noticed a car driving through the car park but ignored it — we were separated by a large mound of dirt, it was at least fifty metres away, and heading away from me — it was little threat and could be ignored… I thought.
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Getting later and later each month, and looking nothing like the recipe!
'puter news
Yay, finally got KDE working on wyvern. Turns out I had some old shared libraries lurking in /usr/local/lib.
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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