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Mr Bialetti, an important part of my life
Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2026 Adrian Tritschler
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Mr Bialetti, an important part of my life
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Rain damage to our window frame and wall
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Rain damage to our window frame and wall
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Rain damage to our window frame and wall
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Rain damage to our window frame
![Journal for [2002-02-26 Tue]](https://ajft.org/img/default2.jpg)
Journal for [2002-02-26 Tue]
There was an extra degree of difficulty attempting to upload the photos I took yesterday on the way home… the USB plug of my Camera to PC cable was full of dried avocado.
Stormwater spilling into Gardiners creek Spent the evening moving furniture around in the second bedroom to make room for the painter tomorrow. This was no easy task as it is crammed in there like the pieces of a puzzle.
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Stormwater spilling into Gardiners creek
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Stormwater spilling into Gardiners creek
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Stormwater spilling into Gardiners creek
Riding, raining
Day one of my enforced fitness regime, I don’t mind cycling to work, but it seems different when I know that I have to cycle to work because I can’t ride the motorbike.
Dark and gloomy as I left the building to ride home, the storm clouds grew thicker and closer as I rode along Gardiner’s Creek. Too dark for sunglasses, the little midges were so thick I had to keep my eyes half shut.
Not a good day
Not a very good day. Joey was “a little ill” following a Friday of too much stress, too many drinks after work, and too little food. To top it off, it looks like I’ve lost the ignition key and wheel lock key for my motorbike. I had them with me when I left to drive to Evan’s, I didn’t have them with me when we got back in the car to come home.
Bike track crash
Ouch. I’m all stiff and sore from a collision on the bike track this morning; I came up behind the usual group of pedestrians blocking the path (as expected), I started to go around the last two on the right, as soon as they saw me they jumped in front of me (as half-expected), I swerved to the left off the path and onto the grass and too late saw the rider coming the other way who’d also swerved out onto the grass.
Cremorne?
Spent the afternoon exploring the backstreets of Cremorne. There are some fascinating little alley ways, renovated (and non…) old houses, ugly as sin industrial buildings and odd architectural creations.
The evening held a custard catastrophe in the kitchen: I turned my back for an instant, milk boiled over everywhere, evil clouds of stinking black smoke arose, Joey laughed, I swore. The resultant custard had the consistency of rubber and was a particularly lurid shade of yellow.
Tandem ride
Yay! We finally rode a tandem.
After literally years of “getting around to it one day”, Joey and I rode down to Pegasus Cycles and took one of the hire bikes for a spin down to Blackrock. A KHS Alite, we both found it very upright compared to our existing bikes, and both missed having bar-ends and a speedo! There were a few shrieks from Jo, mostly due to my unannounced turns, or the sudden appearance of overhanging trees, intruding bushes, or the absolute no-no of tandem rides, the un-announced bump.
Journal for [2002-02-15 Fri]
Damn, while filling up the bike this morning I managed to pour petrol all over myself. I’ve been sitting here smelling all day.
Second Damn! 5.30 pm, I’m sitting here at work, the thunderstorm has arrived and my waterproofs are sitting at home on the floor…
http://www.technology.pitt.edu/itplan/cds2/kerberos.html: Kerberos and NetWare? Oh well, the day got better once I got home. For a start it stopped raining as I rode up the street.
The what?
I just had to include this piece of an email to all Monash staff:
From Friday 15 February 2002 the Temporary Blue Car Park
(formerly the Rugby Oval) will be accessible for vehicles
In princely fashion I guess that’d be “the car-park formerly known as the Rugby Oval.”
Saw The Fellowship of the Ring, together with the usual mix of three-minute-attention-span individuals in the audience. It all ended a bit weakly, but I’ve no idea how you end part one of a trilogy when part two isn’t due for another year.
MLP
Shared resources, “Internet Scale Operating Systems”, etc, all seem to be the flavour of the month:
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/chord/: Chord http://www.mithral.com/projects/cosm/: Cosm http://www.eurogrid.org/: Eurogrid http://research.microsoft.com/sn/farsite/: Farsite http://www.griphyn.org/: Grid Physics Network (Griphyn) http://oceanstore.cs.berkeley.edu/: OceanStore http://www.ppdg.net/: Particle Physics Data Grid http://www.research.microsoft.com/~antr/pastry/: Pastry http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ravenben/tapestry/: Tapestry
Happy New Year of the Horse
Almost incontrovertible proof that wyvern’s problems are heat-related. After 58 days of uptime, albeit through the not-very-warm December and January, I replaced the cover on Sunday. Walked into the study this morning to find that it had shut itself off.
While on the topic of miscellaneous electrical problems, I then went downstairs to ride the motorbike to work. The battery is dying, leaving it for two days without starting it is OK, three days and I had to jump start it from the car.
Biking to (not) work
Decided this morning that it was about time that I rode my bike to work again, I’ve been far too lax lately. Very disconcerting not having a speedo on the bike though, must get around to fitting the new one. Nice to have the new tyres though, no need to keep my fingers crossed that the poor old Panaracer Pasela was going to crumble into dust.
Spent far too much time during the day fiddling about with Apache rewrite rules getting pretty URLs to work.
Attempted tandem trials
The weather is conspiring against Joey and I. Every time we plan to go and ride a tandem, something happens. Today it was going to be after lunch, as a result, at lunch time it started to rain and continued all afternoon.
Oh well, some good came of it all. I spent the afternoon rummaging around in the second bedroom and actually performed some cleaning up. As part of this, I decided it was about time to put the case back on wyvern, which has been running flawlessly for the last two months.
Money-spending day
Today we bought:
Three new tyres for the mountain bikes — much needed.
Two 1.25” Tioga Cityslickers and a 1.5” IRC Metro. The 1.5" Cityslicker comes off the rear-wheel-from-hell on my bike and goes on the front of Joey’s bike. The IRC Metro goes on the rear of Joey’s bike, then the two Tiogas go onto my bike… simple! It would have been much simpler if we’d had the track pump that’s on the shopping list…
Photos are here
To mangle a few metaphors — I’ve taken the bit between the horns and bull between my teeth and published the photos I’ve taken since December with the new camera. It’s not quite all there yet, but with the assistance of someone’s python script and ImageMagick I’ve generated a semi-decent bunch of thumbnails and “web-sized” images. For the moment the full sized ones only live on my laptop, so 404’s will abound.
Unsleepable
Too much stuff in my head this morning, it woke me up around 4.30 am and I couldn’t get back to sleep. Ended up getting up around 5.15 am and writing a whole bunch of notes down regarding Sophos anti-virus an what we might try next…
Mmmmm, motorbike related stuff. I’ve been meaning to write these down a few times:
VIN: RC17 201630
Eng: RC17E2016460
Jay Knight & Co. in Hardware lane in the city has been recommended by a couple of people as they place to go for car and motorbike keys.
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A tower of rocks on the riverbank
Grey day at Lorne
You’ld never have known that it was summer by the weather today. Grey and miserable for most of the day, it might just have got up to 20 degrees! After spending a very lazy morning sitting around inside reading the papers, Joey and I went for a walk up the Erskine river. Someone had made an interesting sculpture of rocks in the water, I’ve got a photo of it, and when I get around to working out how to include photos from my camera in here automatically, I’ll add it.
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Jo and Jack blowing bubbles on the balcony
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Jo and Jack blowing bubbles on the balcony
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Jo and Jack blowing bubbles on the balcony
Friday in February
Six o’clock in the morning and I’ve been awake since four. After two hours of tossing and turning, head full of things I must remember for work today, I gave in and got up. Now I can sit here and watch the hot-air balloons drift over Richmond.
Note to self: Must get around to going on hot-air balloon ride one day.
Bicycle NSW — http://www.bicyclensw.org.au/ — have accepted our family membership, no word on whether the entry for the ride in April was successful or not though.
News of the world
I’ve been slack… very slack. So little written in the past month.
News of the day: We have a washing machine. Not very thrilling news I know, but it will lessen the number of trips to the laundromat and could save us up to $150 a year.
After months of walking past the restaurant on the way up Bridge road, I’ve had dinner in Kanzaman, a Lebanese restaurant. Very enjoyable, and a reminder that I should try and visit a few more of the nearby places, rather than just going to the same places every time.
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How to pick up a girl in a car
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Children playing
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One move and I break your neck..
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Sitting around the campsite in Bright
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Jo reading the paper
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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