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Birds on the road
Gang-gangs[1] x3, honeyeaters two types. Currawongs[2] calling, magpies[3], black cormorants & blue wrens & lots of crimson rosellas [1] Gang-gang [2] Pied currawong [3] Australian magpie
Finally put a new 16GB SD card in the Cycliq Fly12 yesterday, maybe it'll work more reliably now
Damp air and felt very cold on the ride this morning, slow aching legs
Haha, surprise! Cycliq Fly12 camera hasn't been recording any video since [2019-07-27 Sat], it runs, just doesn't record
Panaracer Gravelkings on AWOL, 8000km from Vittoria Randonneurs
Argh! The Cycliq Fly12 hasn't recorded any video since [2019-05-10 Fri]!
I plugged the Fly12 into my laptop this afternoon to see if I could extract the video of me catching up to, then overtaking, the motorist who choose to drive hugging the kerb and blocking the bike lane in Gardiner road yesterday. Frustrated that once again the Fly12 has failed me, this time there’s just not a single video since [2019-05-10 Fri]. I suspect that the SD card has failed, that’d be the SD card supplied with it that the camera has always periodically decided it can’t write to.
Surprise again! Oakleigh station car park partly closed for crane work on shops – but blocking bike path again
Every time they take the easy way out, rather than leave a footpath width aisle at the south side of the car park to keep the Djerring trail open, they close off the entire end of the car park and force pedestrians and cyclists out to make their own way – either through the shopping centre on foot, or under it through the tunnel with bus, car and truck traffic.
Surprise! East side ramp up from Oakleigh station underpass is closed off, go west and around
like being back in Skyrail construction times, Djerring trail closed for a week, trucks roaring up and down
Huge gravel trucks in and out of our street up onto the bike path, chain-link fence blocking access to the bike path. I think they’re removing the rest of the old signalling conduit and wiring and I guess doing some landscaping.
Riding home; low sunlight, currawongs[1] calling, 13°C along the creek, its almost winter
[1] Pied currawong
enjoyable ride along the GOR
Cam and I rode from Lorne to Wye River and stopped for a coffee or hot chocolate, then met up with Jo on her way back from Skenes creek and rode together back to Lorne. Timed it perfectly to miss bus o’clock – the hour from 10-11am when all the outbound tour buses head down the Great Ocean Road, and even spotted an echidna in the grass on the way back down to St George river
There’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.