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Where is the small allen key?

After the Gravel Grind ride last Sunday, or the corrugated parts in particular, one of my bidon cages has worked loose and the bottle has wobbled to and fro on my rides to work. Hunting around for the correct sized allen key this morning I found out just how many of them I have lying around the house… and shed. Unfortunately I think I’ve only got one or two of the 2mm size that these bolts are I was beginning to suspect that I’d carefully put them somewhere safe – so safe that I couldn’t find them.

Wednesday, Sep 5, 2018

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post-ride aches

I really should give up on this idea of entering moderately hard bike rides and not doing any training. Relying on generaly fitness and my minimal commutes just doesn’t cut it! Today I’m a bundle of aches and pains, moving around the house like an old man and having trouble bending down to pick things up. The back of my neck and trapezius aches, probably from carrying the little backpack for the whole day.

Sunday, Sep 2, 2018

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Cold commute home

Cold commute home

Wednesday, Aug 29, 2018

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Riding home on the coldest day so far this year, on the third last day of what is officially winter. There was a frost this morning and it was cold and still all day, thankfully with a clear blue sky so any time you could get out in the sun you felt warmer. Around 8 °C as I left the building, the sun still above the horizon for another half hour or so.
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Yellow-tailed black cockatoos[1] on the commute

Crossing over Dandenong road on the ride home and over the traffic noise in the damp and gloom there’s the unmistakable creaking call of a black cockatoo – no idea where it was, but they always bring a smile to my face [1] Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

Wednesday, Aug 8, 2018

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Winter commute

Another cold and misty day, 3.5°C on the ride to work and a low fog bank off to the east filling Dandenong creek valley. A hazy mist in the air all day and a magnificent full moon rising through it on the way home

Wednesday, Jun 27, 2018

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morning commute

Chilly ride to school and work, then got here and made the lift break down – I pushed the button, the indicator said it was at 3, 2, 1, G…. Then all the lights on the board went out and I heard it shut down. Waited a few minutes, pressed a few buttons, then gave up, hoiked bike up onto my shoulder and walked up the stairs to the third floor

Monday, Jun 4, 2018

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Cycliq Fly12 Woes

Cycliq Fly12 Woes

Friday, Jun 1, 2018

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Yesterday for the first time in ages I took a look at a video from the Cycliq Fly12 – I wanted to see what the grid-locked traffic looked like. As usual, I did it through the USB connection since I’ve found the Android app to be barely usable for connecting to the device, let along trying to view any video. Watching the video I realised it was still set to GMT+11 so the timestamps were an hour out.
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birds on the commute

Damp and grey, the first rainy morning I can remember for months. Riding in the last few streets to work there were currawongs[1] calling, somewhere, evoking winter. Then a butcherbird[2] loudly telling the world it was raining [1] Pied currawong [2] Grey butcherbird

Tuesday, Mar 20, 2018

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Skyrail progress

Thursday afternoon long ride home, around to Grange road to check out the full length of the Skyrail section. Caulfield end waiting for ramps, the south viaduct is one segment short of Poath road

Thursday, Mar 15, 2018

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Idiotic bike path at Huntingdale

Idiotic bike path at Huntingdale

Thursday, Mar 1, 2018

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This afternoon I decided to detour on the ride home, to head south down to Clayton to check out the progress on the Skyrail viaduct, then ride home along the the bike path to get a better look at the newly opened – or is it nearly opened – bike path through Huntingdale now that the redevelopment there is nearly complete. Almost at Huntingdale station the path runs between the car park and the feeder loop from North road around into Huntindale road.
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LXRA progres

Lovely and sunny, with scattered cherry pickers…lots of scattered cherry pickers. Bike path is open to Huntingdale, but if anyone in SE Melbourne is looking for a cherry picker, I know where they’ve all been stashed. At Huntingdale a bit more of the bike path is open, lovely straight path, goes between the car park and station platform all the way to the bus interchange then vanishes with a “Cyclists dismount” sign.

Tuesday, Feb 27, 2018

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Last bike ride of 2017 — Jamieson, Curtis & Sharps tracks

Last bike ride of 2017 — Jamieson, Curtis & Sharps tracks

Sunday, Dec 31, 2017

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The New Year break found us staying at Lorne again, and me trying to get out every day to keep up with my other challenge – ride all 365 days of the year. I managed to make it to 363, two days in September were written off as I lay in bed shaking with the flu. For the past five or ten years I’ve made a conscious effort to have some form of interesting “last ride of the year”, rather than to just realise early in the next year that something boring was the last one.
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Cycling 2017

Cycling 2017

Tuesday, Dec 5, 2017

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An annual challenge, “ride every day,” and in 2017 I came the closest I’ve come to making it a reality. Some days I only made it around the block, or up to the local bakery, but every day of the year except two I got out on the bike and managed to clock up at least 1.5km. The two exceptions were two days spent in bed with the flu, at a holiday house in the Otways, while my bike languished outside on the roofrack of the car.
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Perfect timing!

Leaving the office I walked across the hall to try and fill my water bottle before riding home in 35°C heat. The light on the door card-access reader was green… until I got a metre from it when there was a loud click and it locked, requiring card access, but only to the staff who work in there. No water for me

Wednesday, Nov 29, 2017

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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 7 -- Koonung Creek trail

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 7 -- Koonung Creek trail

Sunday, Nov 19, 2017

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A final ride for the 2017 coffeeneuring challenge and I almost thought I wasn’t going to make it over the weekend and would have to bend the rules. I’d thought I’d be going out for a longer ride alone, as it was we had a shorter one with the family. So over the three weeks, the rides were short short long, short long, short short. Which in Morse code is “U-A-I”.
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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 6 -- refuelling on the corner

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 6 -- refuelling on the corner

Friday, Nov 17, 2017

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My efforts for the 2017 coffeeneuring challenge have been split into four small rides during my lunch break from work, and three longer rides. The first two little rides in were, almost coincidentally, to the south and then the east, so I made a conscious effort to go north for the third with the intention of then heading west for the fourth1. Today in the morning I’d attended a lab walk-through for SensiLab at Monash University Caulfield campus, so although today’s coffee destination is west of my normal workplace, I was heading east when I got there.
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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 5 -- “The Slog” and a coffee

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 5 -- “The Slog” and a coffee

Saturday, Nov 11, 2017

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Fourteen years ago a church group – the 4Cs – decided to hold a fund-raising bike ride from where they were, in Pakenham on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne, to Sale, on the Gippsland coast. Thus the Slog to Sale was created. For fourteen years the ride has been held, I’m not sure when the name changed to The Slog and the route changed to a loop around the West Gippsland area, but that was what it was when I did my first one in 2012.
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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 4 -- nanoadventure to the north

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 4 -- nanoadventure to the north

Friday, Nov 10, 2017

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Part the fourth of my attempt at the 2017 coffeeneuring challenge, and to keep to the rules, I have to go for a ride and a coffee today. Like the first and the second, this is a lunchtime mini-ride to somewhere – anywhere – preferably somewhere I haven’t previously visited. Since the first was to the south, and the second to the west, clearly now, in the immortal words of Mark E.
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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 3 -- Lorne to Apollo Bay

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 3 -- Lorne to Apollo Bay

Sunday, Nov 5, 2017

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With a long weekend at Lorne on the Great Ocean Road there’s a chance for a few long rides, especially if I can force myself to get up early and get out before the tourist buses come through and make the traffic a bit too much of a chore. This morning I was up at dawn and headed out towards Wye River, intending to go through as far as Cape Patton and grab a coffee on the way back, probably at Kennet River.
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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 2

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 2

Friday, Nov 3, 2017

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Right then, yesterday was a good start, down south through the medical precinct for the first coffee of the challenge. Since today is Friday it’s a new week according to the rules, so off I’ll go in a new direction. New rules for myself are that I’ll try my best to go to places that I’ve never been to before, but here in Melbourne we’re surrounded by a bazillion coffee shops, so how to choose?
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Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 1

Coffeeneuring 2017 no. 1

Thursday, Nov 2, 2017

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Now here’s a challenge I can aspire to; suitably silly, a name with a pun, involves coffee and cycling, easy enough but it’ll take a bit of paying attention to not let the days slip past. Let’s go coffeeneuring… Somewhere around five weeks ago I stumbled across the blog post at Save the Date: Coffeeneuring Challenge Starts October 13 and decided to give it a go; seven coffees in six weeks didn’t seem too hard.
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Alpine Classic changes organisers

Interesting. Audax Australia has sold the Audax Alpine Classic to SME360 – the mob who run Amy’s Grand Fondo. Wonder what this will do to pricing?

Friday, Oct 20, 2017

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Decorative powerline warnings

Riding back along the railway works through Clayton, all the overhead powerlines have protective red flags to warn the backhoe drivers. They remind me of Chinese lanterns.

Friday, Oct 13, 2017

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cool, grey and damp on the ride to work, a pair of currawongs[1] flew lazily overhead, calling with their distinctive voices

[1] Pied currawong

Thursday, Oct 12, 2017

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Less than 10°C and with an icy wind – feels like something around 5°C – a very wintery ride to work

Tuesday, Sep 5, 2017

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I guess it rained

Must have been a massive downpour just before I left to ride home. The creek is overflowing, trees are down, huge pools of water everywhere.

Thursday, Aug 17, 2017

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Audax -- Ride Along the Planets

Audax -- Ride Along the Planets

Saturday, Mar 4, 2017

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I thought it finally time to get out and go on an Audax Australia ride, even if it was only an introductory 50km event. So last [2017-02-28 Tue] I signed up for Ride along the planets and this morning made my way the half kilometer along the railway to the start at Hughesdale station. Of course I’d managed to get myself confused and was nearly on my way to Murrumbeena station before I spotted Robert standing around near the laundromat, stopped to check the email in my phone then quickly did a lap of the block and came back to join him and wait for the others.
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Last bike ride for 2015

Last bike ride for 2015

Wednesday, Dec 30, 2015

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The week from Christmas to New Years Eve I spent at Lorne. An added degree of difficulty this year was that due to the fires between Wye River & Apollo Bay the GOR was closed past Lorne, so that put a crimp in the riding options. There was surprisingly little smoke, the only real indication was the constant stream of fire-fighting aircraft (from littlies to a Hercules and a four engine jet).
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Audax Alpine Classics

Audax Alpine Classics

Wednesday, Jan 28, 2015

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Last weekend up at Bright, someone asked how many Audax Alpine Classics I’ve ridden, and what distances they were. Astounding both myself and those around me, last Sunday I completed the 200km 2015 Australian Audax Alpine Classic. A couple of people asked how many I’d done and thinking about it I wasn’t sure, at least two 200km versions, possibly a third, but I couldn’t be sure. Time to check the backlog of paperwork, email, old journal entries and photos.
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Cycling 2014

Cycling 2014

Tuesday, Apr 15, 2014

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A challenge to start the year, “ride every day” – I didn’t read about it until [2014-01-02 Thu] and thought I was immediately disqualified, but the person laying down the challenge said it started from [2014-01-04 Sat] so I took him up on it. Made it a whole 15 days before reality intervened in the form of a trip away to visit family. Sunday seems to be my day of rest, the rest is mostly made of my short commute and trips to the shops, with a few more interesting rides thrown in.
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Melbourne motorists going that extra mile to be dangerously unpredictable

Melbourne motorists going that extra mile to be dangerously unpredictable

Thursday, Nov 14, 2013

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Thursday, riding alone day, as distinct from Monday to Wednesday which are “riding with the five yr old” days. Thursday’s traffic is more hazardous, but at least it’s more predictable! Riding with a small child in Melbourne it is amazing how much more polite drivers seem to be, they pass safely, they tend to (not always, but tend to) stop at stop signs rather than shoot across our bows after “slowing down a bit… maybe… it’s only a pushbike.
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A walking and cycling bucket list

A walking and cycling bucket list

Thursday, Sep 12, 2013

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I have no idea where I got this from, I can remember copying it from an email, or maybe a forum entry, or someone’s blog. UK centric, with detours to Europe, seems I’ve been to one or two already, maybe I’ll visit a few more one day: Walks and cycle routes The National Trails [0/15] Cleveland Way, England Cotswold Way, England Glyndŵr’s Way, Wales Hadrian’s Wall Path, England North Downs Way, England Offa’s Dyke Path, Wales and England Peddar’s Way and Norfolk Coast Path, England Pembrokeshire Coast Path, Wales Pennine Bridleway, England Pennine Way, England and Scotland The Ridgeway, England South Downs Way, England South West Coast Path, England Thames Path, England Yorkshire Wolds Way, England Other walks and cycle routes [1/7] Camino di Santiago Coast to Coast walk Cumbria Way walk Kennet and Avon Canal cycle (photos) London to Paris cycle The London Loop The Capital Ring Places The UK World Heritage Sites, Location [3/25] Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and St Martin’s Church, Canterbury, Kent, England Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, Blaenavon, Wales Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
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First rides of a trailgator

First rides of a trailgator

Sunday, Feb 10, 2013

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Some fiddling about over Saturday as we assembled the trailgator and got his 16" bike attached successfully to my MTB. A bit of extra fun ensued as the ancient seat post bolt on my bike had seized good and proper, no amount of swearing cursing or straining would shift it, a little extra from the brute squad and a loud snap as the bolt sheared in half. A spare was located in the great box ‘o bits in the shed.
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Ride report for December 2012, and 2012 and 2013 totals

Ride report for December 2012, and 2012 and 2013 totals

Thursday, Jan 3, 2013

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2012 cycling wrap up Increased both the target distance and the percentage completed in the last year; up from 5000km to 5200km, and completed 97%, up from 94%. Still plenty of room for improvement though. It would have been worse but I forced myself out for three last gasp rides, one on [2012-12-30 Sun] and then two on [2012-12-31 Mon]. According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for December 2012 and for all of 2012:
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Ride report for November 2012

Ride report for November 2012

Saturday, Dec 1, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, apart from when I either forget to turn it on or the firmware has wedged itself and I cannot turn it on. Getting closer to the end, getting closer to the goal, I haven’t yet started working out how likely it’ll be.
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Ride report for October 2012

Ride report for October 2012

Thursday, Nov 1, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, apart from when I either forget to turn it on or the firmware has wedged itself and I cannot turn it on. Catastrophically, I dropped the Edge 705 while leaving work on [2012-10-05 Fri] and despite pulling over as quickly as possible, I got to watch as the first three drivers in a row managed to line their wheels up perfectly to run over it, destroying the screen.
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Ride report for September 2012

Ride report for September 2012

Monday, Oct 1, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or the firmware has wedged itself and I cannot turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com Progress: 66%
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Ride report for August 2012

Ride report for August 2012

Monday, Sep 3, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. I also had the problem this month that the Edge became gradually more unreliable at turning on and finally got into a state where I couldn’t turn it on either through the buttons or by plugging it into the USB cable – some digging around found a way of connecting to USB while pushing the joystick up – then I erased all the history.
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Ride report for July 2012

Ride report for July 2012

Wednesday, Aug 1, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com Progress: 50% 2592.27 km at 17.80 km/h A distance of 2607.73 km remains. At current average speed, 146.
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Ride report for June 2012

Ride report for June 2012

Monday, Jul 2, 2012

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I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com Progress: 43% 2253.73 km at 17.80 km/h A distance of 2946.27 km remains. At current average speed, 165.
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Ride report for May 2012

Ride report for May 2012

Friday, Jun 1, 2012

@ Adrian Tritschler

I set myself the goal of riding 5200km in 2012, that’s 100km a week for anyone who thinks it an unusual number. Most of my rides are recorded on my Garmin Edge 705, although sometimes I forget to turn it on, or more rarely, can’t find it and ride to work without it. Tracked on http://mycyclinglog.com Progress: 34% 1783.20 km at 17.57 km/h A distance of 3416.80 km remains. At current average speed, 194.
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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.

…The ISP

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…The Grue