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Journal for [2003-08-04 Mon]

Journal for [2003-08-04 Mon]

Monday, Aug 4, 2003

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More fun-and-games on the bike path under Glenferrie road this morning… a warning sign and huge row of orange cones. Is it flooded? Are they trying to install a dyke to keep the water out? I slowed as I entered… no, there’s a film crew setting up for a shoot in the storm-water drain. There’s lights and generators and cables and wires and chairs and people everywhere. Shame that some of the public are actually trying to use the bloody track to get to work!
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The church and I

The church and I

Sunday, Aug 3, 2003

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Off to church this morning! A very strange thing for me to do — I can’t remember when I last entered a church… other than for weddings, or , or to admire the architecture. This was another christening, but it came at the end of the weekly service. Quite unsettling, as I had no idea what was happening at various times, and kept suspecting that as one of the god-parents, I’d be expected to know what was happening.

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Mt Donna Buang in the snow

Mt Donna Buang in the snow

Saturday, Aug 2, 2003

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It seemed like a good idea at the time… If we’re going to be riding in the Alps next month, Jo thought she should have a little hill riding as training. Over a beer or two last night Evan mentioned that he hadn’t ridden up Mount Donna Buang for some time, and what a great ride it is at this time of year, especially with the Warburton-Healesville road being closed over winter.
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QOTD

QOTD

Thursday, Jul 31, 2003

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Do not confuse concubine with porcupine. Just a statement that came up at dinner time this evening.
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Journal for [2003-07-30 Wed]

Journal for [2003-07-30 Wed]

Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003

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I don’t really mind riding in the rain — although I prefer the rain to be on the ride home, rather on the way to work. What I do find annoying is when it starts hailing on me. Just a little bit too uncomfortable… It really makes me think that I should have dressed up in the waterproofs and ridden the motorbike, or just stayed home in bed! About time I wrote something I think.
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Journal for [2003-07-29 Tue]

Journal for [2003-07-29 Tue]

Tuesday, Jul 29, 2003

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More running around to be done to get to the bank before work. The motorbike isn’t quite sure what’s going on — being ridden so many times in such a short space of time. Money was extracted from the bank, money was deposited to the travel agents. They’re almost as leech-like as each other, with STA travel threatening to charge 2.5% extra for credit cards or cheques, are we expected to carry around enough cash to pay for $2000 international air tickets?
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Teeth

Teeth

Monday, Jul 28, 2003

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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.

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Humevale hill

Humevale hill

Sunday, Jul 27, 2003

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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.
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Journal for [2003-07-26 Sat]

Journal for [2003-07-26 Sat]

Saturday, Jul 26, 2003

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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.
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Journal for [2003-07-22 Tue]

Journal for [2003-07-22 Tue]

Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003

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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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Journal for [2003-07-21 Mon]

Journal for [2003-07-21 Mon]

Monday, Jul 21, 2003

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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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Sunday, Jul 20, 2003

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Palm trees on a deserted island... in a lake... in the Botanic Gardens
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Journal for [2003-07-20 Sun]

Journal for [2003-07-20 Sun]

Sunday, Jul 20, 2003

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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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Journal for [2003-07-19 Sat]

Journal for [2003-07-19 Sat]

Saturday, Jul 19, 2003

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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!
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Journal for [2003-07-17 Thu]

Journal for [2003-07-17 Thu]

Thursday, Jul 17, 2003

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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!! ~
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Journal for [2003-07-16 Wed]

Journal for [2003-07-16 Wed]

Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003

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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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Tuesday, Jul 15, 2003

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Mound of squid for Drew. 2003 Bund Christmas dinner. (Kookoo, Melbourne)
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…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.

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