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Wishing for winter

Wishing for winter

Thursday, Jan 16, 2003

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Riding home, listening to the magpies in the trees — memories of riding on frosty mornings in Canberra. Melbourne’s weather is a little too mild in the winter, sometimes I miss the really cold, clear, mornings!
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Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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The amazing, and expensive, suspended bicycle path along Gardiners creek under the Monash freeway
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Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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One of the more interesting vehicles I've met parked or driving along the Gardiners creek bicycle path
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Cycle Commute: Richmond to Clayton

Cycle Commute: Richmond to Clayton

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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Richmond to Monash University, and home again. Here are some of the hi-lights and low-lights of my daily ride to and from work. Despite a personal dislike for “cycle paths” and most other cycle-specific infrastructure, most of my commute does use one of Melbourne’s bike paths… except that they aren’t really bike paths. Every off-road bicycle path in Melbourne is really a shared-use pedestrian footway, where pedestrians have absolute right of way over cyclists, and there is no legal enforcement of the keep left requirement, or any of the other rules and regulations, which appear to be little more than local council suggestions.
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Journal for [2003-01-15 Wed]

Journal for [2003-01-15 Wed]

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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Inspired by some photos that someone (Daniel Colyer) took of their winter cycle commute in the UK, I’ve stopped on the path here and there to take some of my own commute. The countryside isn’t as striking, but some may be interested. I decided not to include photos of the growing list of dead things that I’ve seen in the last week, but will list them here: a large dog at the side of Ferntree Gully road a flying fox in the park in Chadstone a water rat on the Boulevard 1m long eel beside the Gardiners creek path There’s not many interesting live animals to be seen, apart from a myriad of birds and dogs, all I see are European Carp in the creek, and — once — an Eastern Long-necked tortoise.
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Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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Looking west along Gardiners creek from one of the myriad of bridges on the cycle path
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HFBV?

HFBV?

Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003

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Nearly lost my coffee this morning — in a messy sprayed guffaw at reading the latest obesity-related message in <uk.rec.cycling>. There was mention of someone suffering from HFBV — the acronym looked innocent enough at first it looked reasonable enough — until I read the footnote explaining it at the bottom of the page.
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Journal for [2003-01-13 Mon]

Journal for [2003-01-13 Mon]

Monday, Jan 13, 2003

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A forecast high of 37 °C today, and bushfires all over the state. There is a smoky brown haze covering the city, everything is smelling of smoke, and there’s a strange orangy-red tinge to everything as I rode to work. Lunchtime, hot, still and smoky. Walking across the campus felt like walking in the bush in summer. Cicadas calling, the smell of eucalyptus, dust and smoke. Demos http://www.mindcandydvd.com/: a DVD of Demos.
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On the beach

On the beach

Sunday, Jan 12, 2003

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Another lazy day on the beach, but a far more careful Jo and Adrian today! My feet were painful everytime the sun shone on them, so I spent nearly the entire day lying under the sun-shelter, only coming out when young Jack demanded some entertainment in the surf. The trip to the Lorne book exchange is becoming almost a ritual, its one of the better second-hand book shops that I know of, with an amazing range of old hardcover titles by authors nobody has ever heard of.
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Pier to Pub

Pier to Pub

Saturday, Jan 11, 2003

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Apart from a minor excursion to Kafe Kaos to stuff ourselves on their magnificent Thai Tofu burgers, most of today was spent lounging on the beach. Unfortunately, neither Jo nor I applied enough sun-screen, so by the end of the day we both had sunburn in various places — me on the tops of my feet and ankles, Jo on her knees! Lorne beach during the Pier to Pub (pan) The Pier to Pub swim was the major attraction, several thousand people on the beach, assorted swimmers and surf-life-saving boat races.
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Death by door!

Death by door!

Friday, Jan 10, 2003

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Yesterday evening we finally got to try out the barbecue in the park — after nearly getting killed buying sausages! A strange coin-operated device, I don’t know why they bother with the overhead of maintaining them and collecting the coins, when a single 20c coin lasted long enough to cook our entire meal! Apart from having to chase away someone’s dog while we cooked, it all made a pleasant change from dinner at home.
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You are here?

You are here?

Thursday, Jan 9, 2003

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A whole mish-mash of thing today, here they all are, jumbled one after the next. Ah the wonders of slashdot… One of today’s stories touched an interest of mine — Geographic information in the Internet. There are already a couple of RFC’s [1712, 1876] on how to add Latitude and Longitude to the DNS, this story was on GeoURL’s method of including the information into webpages, blogs, etc. I’ve added the requisite headers1, follow the pretty green button to find out who my neighbours are:
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All stand…

All stand…

Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003

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I should have stayed in bed… Coffee failure Got up, stumbled into the kitchen as usual, stood around while the coffee created itself, then poured coffee into two cups. Went to fridge, took out orange juice and milk, unscrewed cap of orange juice, poured orange juice into coffee. Damn. Poured corrupted coffee down the sink and split the remaining coffee into two much smaller cups. Bike failure Now to ride to work… 4 ㎞ down the track and there’s a loud PING — the sound of a bolt snapping — as one of the bolts holding my seat on snaps and the seat falls off.
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Site maintenance

Site maintenance

Tuesday, Jan 7, 2003

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Time for a little site maintenance — I’ve split up some of my bookmarks, so that the cycling and electronics ones appear separately under their respective pages. Finally commissioned the hardware pages too, although sometimes I refer to them as hardware, and sometimes as electronics… ought to make up my mind one day. Still need to rework my cycle tours/rides pages, and finish going through all the old paper journals to write up the missing tours!
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Dog laws always for other dogs…

Dog laws always for other dogs…

Monday, Jan 6, 2003

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An interesting event on the morning ride to work today… I rounded a corner, passed the two women walking along waving empty dog leads in the air, rounded the next corner and slid to a halt to avoid the dog that ran out of the bushes into my front wheel. “Move, you stupid dog” says I, not really expecting a reply. Then from across the river came the following — from a man with two dogs of his own, an anger problem, and probably a guilty conscience — “Get F[$#@$#%ed you F##]%Ging prick, go and F&*(##) off!
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Journal for [2003-01-05 Sun]

Journal for [2003-01-05 Sun]

Sunday, Jan 5, 2003

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Jo decided that she really did need to get on her bicycle a bit more often than once a month, so this afternoon we drove out to Lilydale to ride along the rail-trail. As usual, the Lilydale end is totally unsigned, so we gave up trying to find the trail end and rode straight up the Maroondah highway until we found where it crossed. Once on the trail its a pleasant ride through the forests, lots of other people, but they’re all better behaved than the ones I meet on the tracks in town — everyone keeps left, for example.
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Journal for [2003-01-04 Sat]

Journal for [2003-01-04 Sat]

Saturday, Jan 4, 2003

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A bit slow to get started this morning… last night’s two bottles of wine and the odd beer had added a certain lethargy to our rising. Bacon and eggs kick-started mind and soul, then off to the markets to restock the fridge — pity that we’d forgotten that the markets were closed this weekend! A simple trip to one market turned into an hour and a half tram trip into the Queen Vic markets and then home.
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Groove train dinner

Groove train dinner

Friday, Jan 3, 2003

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Jo’s friend Phil visited this evening, the three of us headed off to the Groove Train for dinner — accompanied by two bottles of wine and a couple of beers…
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First day of the work year

First day of the work year

Thursday, Jan 2, 2003

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First day back at work — quiet as a grave. Closing off old logs and trying to remember what I need to do at the start of each year — it doesn’t happen often enough, so nothing tends to get automated… Andy and Suzie – WideOpenRoad – are still emailing me with tempting invitations for the bike ride from Geneva to Verona. I want to go, Joey is in two minds.
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New Years day

New Years day

Wednesday, Jan 1, 2003

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There was an ugly start to the new year — waking around 9 am as a hairy arm appeared around the bedroom door and Marko lobbed a small — but exceptionally noisy — alarm clock onto our bed. It was a Christmas present desk calendar/alarm clock that I’d put the batteries into yesterday then left on my desk in the spare room — not realising that it had pre-armed itself with a 7 am alarm.
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NYE

NYE

Tuesday, Dec 31, 2002

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Another hot, sultry night, the wind banging the blinds around, too hot to sleep… 9 am and the rain has just cooled things off a little, but not enough to inspire me to do anything or move anywhere. Rain! Torrential, cooling rain… New Years celebrations were very laid back. Four of us went to dinner at The Gate in Church street, where we were charged a 10% NYE surchage — “Just because we can.
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Journal for [2002-12-30 Mon]

Journal for [2002-12-30 Mon]

Monday, Dec 30, 2002

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Thirty degrees at nine in the morning, last night’s cool change petered out into a smattering of rain drops and no drop in temperature. There’s many things I could do with my three days off, but today, no incentive to do anything very much, just move slowly, sip cool drinks, and listen to music… This time last year, we were just starting out New Zealand bike tour — we must get around to deciding — soon — once and for all whether we’re going on the Geneva to Verona ride later this year…
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Journal for [2002-12-29 Sun]

Journal for [2002-12-29 Sun]

Sunday, Dec 29, 2002

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Another lazy Sunday down at Lorne — I took off by myself in the morning to wander along the beach — alone in the crowds, watching as people staked out their territory for the day with towels and sun shelters and bags. Then up to the shops to rummage through the second-hand book-shops. They’re not cheap, but there’s plenty of choice as people discard unwanted Christmas presents and holiday reading. I nearly picked up a Lawrence Durrell novel or two — after thinking I should read some for many months — but they all seemed to be the “continued” part of a four or five book series.
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About

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…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.

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