Adrian Tritschler's stuff
My website, an agglomerative mess, probably half-eaten by a grue
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
© 1984 - 2024 Adrian Tritschler
Birds for [2024-04-05 Fri], revisit Lake McIntyre
Back at Lake McIntyre again (Millicent, SA), and a walk around the lake this time. At the second bird hide Jo spotted a small bird moving out on the mudflats, then slowly we counted more and more. Five Black fronted dotterel scurrying back and forth. One more for the #birdsseenin2024 listBirds for [2024-04-04 Thu], Canunda National Park, SA
A windy day for our bushwalk to the Coola ruins, nothing much to see because of that … some unidentified medium-sized raptors, and emu, plenty of them seen on the drive in, and a few on the 8km hike. Definitely not a bird I see often in the wild, certainly one for the #birdsseenin2024 listBirds for [2024-04-03 Wed], Lake McIntyre, SA
A short ride out of town to the wetlands in a rehabilitated quarry, then a slow loop around the lake – stupidly forgetting to bring out binoculars. Plenty of the usual suspects and three definite unusual spottings for the #birdsseenin2024 list, in the order seen they are: Blue-billed duck Lathams snipe Pied stiltThere’s not much more I can add to who I am.
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.