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Journal for [2002-10-26 Sat]

Journal for [2002-10-26 Sat]

Saturday, Oct 26, 2002

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A morning at the markets, an afternoon shopping for unmentionable material in relation to 2003-Apr-12. Along the way I dropped in at Christies, ostensibly to look for cycling shoes, in reality to ponder the tandems — that matt black MT800 is sure looking tempting… A more prosaic form of transport was employed get around the back yard while Marko was cooking the barbecue for dinner. His pride and joy, an old Cyclops scooter destined for the dumpster before he rescued it and paid good money for new inner tubes.
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Welcome to america

Welcome to america

Monday, Oct 21, 2002

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Just a little too much excitement at Monash this morning… Two dead, eight injured in Monash Uni shooting Helicopters buzzing overhead for two hours or more, all the phones stopped working as everyone tried to call in or out for news. The mobile networks couldn’t cope either, probably because every student seems to have a mobile phone. Still feeling a little stiff and sore from yesterday’s exhertions. Walking down stairs wasn’t too hard, I’m guessing that it was neither the easiest or hardest of my three “round the bay’s
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ATBIAD 2002

ATBIAD 2002

Sunday, Oct 20, 2002

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stats. Distance 233.32 ㎞ Riding time 8hr 32m Average speed 27.3 ㎞/h 4.15 am is a completely ridiculous time to be getting out of bed. I hadn’t really slept since about 1 am, neighbours seemed to be coming home steadily between two and three, a cat was yowling outside the window the whole time, and then the birds started chirping around 3.45 am… I think I’ll stick to more sociable bike-riding hours in the future.
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Journal for [2002-10-19 Sat]

Journal for [2002-10-19 Sat]

Saturday, Oct 19, 2002

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A Saturday to myself since Joey had to go off with her mother on secret Joey business… Highly successful secret Joey business, since with the minimum of fuss they found and bought a wedding dress! I did much more interesting things — like fruit and vegetable shopping at the markets, and visiting the bicycle trade exhibition at the Carlton Gardens. Actually, the bicycle exhibition wasn’t very interesting — it might have been due to the fact that I’m not after a BMX bike or downhill MTB, since that’s what seemed to take up the majority of the stalls.
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Found objects

Found objects

Friday, Oct 18, 2002

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Bizarre things that I should have taken a photo of: A Bingo board sitting at the side of the road in a park, looking just like it had come straight from a 1950’s bingo parlour.
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Today's lesson

Today's lesson

Thursday, Oct 17, 2002

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…last night’s lesson is: three pints Guinness good, four pints Guinness bad. I shall try to remember this lesson for the future A very slow day — surely by this time in my life I should know better! Out to dinner at Flor in Carlton. We both got a surprise walking in the door, from the review in the paper I thought it was more of a restaurant — turns out to be quite small, and predominately a wine-bar.
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Three pints good, four pints…?

Three pints good, four pints…?

Wednesday, Oct 16, 2002

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Happy birthday to me… This evening a celebratory Guinness seemed in order, so Evan and I headed up to the Terminus for one … or two … or even more. While there we were talked into participating in the weekly Bingo games — hilarious fun, with the couple running it knowing all the traditional wise-cracks for each number, along with a whole section of Melbourne-specific ones regarding footballers and trams. I foolishly tried to play sixteen games at once, frantically scribbling from one end of the table to the other.
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Journal for [2002-10-14 Mon]

Journal for [2002-10-14 Mon]

Monday, Oct 14, 2002

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Wow, what a shed! I’d heard about the shed, Kathy had talked about the size of the shed, but it didn’t really sink in until we drove out there and saw it. Kathy and Cec appear to have an aircraft hanger in their paddock! I guess when you need to ride and exercise your horses all year round, a really big shed just might be what you want. …and then the long drive home to Melbourne…
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Journal for [2002-10-13 Sun]

Journal for [2002-10-13 Sun]

Sunday, Oct 13, 2002

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Spent the day visiting my newest nieces. Too lazy to take a photo of them, appologies to anyone who wanted one. Casey has a curl, Zoe doesn’t — other than that, I can neither tell them apart from each other, or from any of the other three-month old babies that I’ve seen. Two at a time certainly are a handful, but they all seem to be coping. In the background for the whole afternoon was the Bathurst races — I can remember when I used to be interested in it, when it had a variety of production cars that bore at least some resemblence to what was on the roads.
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Floriade

Floriade

Saturday, Oct 12, 2002

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We made like tourists and got lost driving towards the Floriade in Canberra — followed the signs through the city, along Constitution avenue to the lake, off towards the east, down under Constitution avenue, then missed the car-park turnoff and ended up heading back towards the city! Ended up driving around and parking near the pool, where I tend to head automatically, since that’s where the bike path would take me!
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An affordable tandem?

An affordable tandem?

Friday, Oct 11, 2002

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Hmmm, very tempting! A second hand MT3000 for just over the price of a new MT800! I wonder how much shipping from the US is? FOR SALE 09/12/02: Cannondale MT3000, Team Race Yellow, 1999 with less than 60 miles on it, wife don’t like it, been in storage for 2 years, never seen water, looks better than show room condition, this was the best tandem that Cannondale made that year, it has all the top components, XTR’s, Magura Hydraulic Brakes, Triple Clamp Cannondale front Suspension, rear seat post suspension, size Large/Medium(19"/16"), awesome bike, a steal at $2500.
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Smokers are an odd lot

Smokers are an odd lot

Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002

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The bizarre quote of the day would have to be the one I just found in today’s Herald Sun newspaper. In reference to a proposal to further restrict smoking in public places, and introduce “Public Substance Inhalation Rooms;” one smoker is quoted as saying: “If I smoke I want to do it outside in the fresh air…” Personally, I don’t mind where people smoke, so long as they: Don’t exhale near me Remove all ash, cigarette butts and rubbish Don’t stick the hot end into my clothes or skin Judging by the sea of butts that surrounds every restaurant door in Melbourne, it appears as if the average smoker is the filthy pig that has always been presumed, and that they don’t consider cigarette butts to be litter.
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Journal for [2002-10-06 Sun]

Journal for [2002-10-06 Sun]

Sunday, Oct 6, 2002

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Off for the week’s bike riding in a vague hope of maintaining some fitness before Around the Bay in a Day. It was such a calm, still morning that I hurried off down around the bay to Frankston and back, deciding to climb Oliver’s Hill for a little extra exercise. As usual, some petrol-head in a rusty old bomb tried to run me off the road in Frankston, but that’s Frankston — it happens every time.
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Water water

Water water

Friday, Oct 4, 2002

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Rain all day… apparently October is Melbourne’s wettest month. Half of Victoria has had a drought for the last three years, the dams are 52% full, and still there’s no water restrictions for anyone in the city. “Yah just turn on the tap and the water comes out” . Maybe one day the government will have the guts to introduce the water restrictions…
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Journal for [2002-10-03 Thu]

Journal for [2002-10-03 Thu]

Thursday, Oct 3, 2002

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Plan9 One more tiny step on my way with Plan9… Today I managed to upgrade the T21 from the CD, maybe I’ll be able to compile a kernel that can use the embedded 3com network card and not lock-up the machine. 9660srv mount /srv/9660 /n/dist /dev/sdD0/data replica/pull -v /dist/replica/cd Photography Flicking through the Green Guide section of The Age I was happy to see that the feature on digital cameras pretty much agreed with me, the Digital IXUS was the camera of choice in that range.
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Ride to work day

Ride to work day

Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002

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BV's 'Ride to Work' function A little detour on the ride to work this morning — I headed into the city for Bicycle Victoria’s annual “Ride to Work” day and free breakfast. Everything there was all sweetness and light, in some contrast to the ride to get there! One car parked in the clearway/bike lane on Bridge Road. Seven cars and a tow-truck stopped in the bike lanes at traffic lights.
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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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