Ah Senator Alston, how do we love thee? Performing some much needed file cleanup I found a mystery script, all one line of it, pulling a couple of random words from a text file of so-called naughty words. Trivial, funny in a sad way. Must have written it long ago based on one of the myriad proposed lists of naughty words… especially since the hornorable mini-stir was Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 1998-2003.
Cartoon drawings depicting the Simpsons naked, the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind album, Angus Young of AC/DC or Chrissy Amphlett of the Divinyls sexualising themselves in school uniforms. All classified as child porn by your new all-seeing all-knowing Australian government. Some are likely to be filtered by the new mandatory internet filter for Australia, but you won’t know which, the list of what is to be censored is itself not available to the public.
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.
