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2003 BNSW RTA BigRide: Sunday: Camden to Bowral

2003 BNSW RTA BigRide: Sunday: Camden to Bowral

Sunday, Mar 16, 2003

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stats.
Today 84.43km
Trip total 118km

Dr Alan, Jeff, Ron, Jim and I rolled out at 8:15, fueled up on porridge and in good spirits. The pace was a little high and Ron left us to ride at a more comfortable one. Jeff and I moved to the front on the first of many short sharpish climbs.

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2003 BNSW RTA BigRide: Friday: Melbourne to Cootamundra

2003 BNSW RTA BigRide: Friday: Melbourne to Cootamundra

Friday, Mar 14, 2003

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stats. Today 0km Trip total 0km The start of another RTA Big Ride… It was 1 pm when I left Melbourne in Joey’s car, brand new helmet in hand, all the usual accoutrements stuffed into duffel, and Norky bike laid across the top. A relatively event-free drive to the Victorian border, with far less traffic than I usually encounter when we drive this way at night. From Albury to Gundagai there was a huge thunderstorm visible to the east, dark and foreboding, not a good sign for a week’s camping!
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SMIDSY

SMIDSY

Tuesday, Mar 11, 2003

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A SMIDSY … my first for the year. Straight through the stop sign in front of me – I guess he didn’t see it either – I hit the brakes, I slide to a stop, he smiles, waves apologetically and calls it out – yes – word for word.
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Journal for [2003-03-08 Sat]

Journal for [2003-03-08 Sat]

Saturday, Mar 8, 2003

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Breakfasted up on Bridge Road after visiting the markets, then hurried home to change and ride down to Port Melbourne to join Evan and Kyllie for a bit of a bike ride. We weren’t sure where we all wanted to go, the only thing we agreed on was avoiding Albert Park and the congestion around the Grand Prix. Getting to Port Melbourne was a challenge — every road seemed to be bumper to bumper with cars, stationary and fuming — both drivers and cars.
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The signs

The signs

Wednesday, Mar 5, 2003

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Lessons learned from this morning’s ride to work: Keep Left: To the majority of pedestrians on the shared paths, this means walk three abreast, use the entire path, then step randomly to the left or right when a cyclist approaches Control Your Dog: To the majority of dog owners on the shared path, this means “hold a lead coiled up in your hand, and ensure that your dog remains somewhere within eyesight.
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Lilydale-Warburton rail trail

Lilydale-Warburton rail trail

Monday, Jan 27, 2003

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This afternoon we decided that it was time to get out of the house and complete the Lilydale to Warburton rail trail — lazy pair that we are! We parked at Woori-Yallock and lunched on pies from their award-winning bakery, then down to the trail to ride off along the valley — periodically checking the horizon for any signs of smoke! There are no bushfires around this part of the state, but I didn’t really want to be around if one started from a cigarette out of a car window.
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Annoyance in the bike shop

Annoyance in the bike shop

Saturday, Jan 18, 2003

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An irritating bit of shopping today in a bike shop — I ducked in to take a quick look at helmets, since mine is starting to fall apart and I’ll probably have to replace it soon. The 20-ish guy in the shop was far too over-eager to sell me something, anything, now but also seemed to be of the mind-set that anyone venturing out on a bicycle without a helmet was guaranteed of dieing of head injuries in only days.
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Wishing for winter

Wishing for winter

Thursday, Jan 16, 2003

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Riding home, listening to the magpies in the trees — memories of riding on frosty mornings in Canberra. Melbourne’s weather is a little too mild in the winter, sometimes I miss the really cold, clear, mornings!
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Cycle Commute: Richmond to Clayton

Cycle Commute: Richmond to Clayton

Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003

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Richmond to Monash University, and home again. Here are some of the hi-lights and low-lights of my daily ride to and from work. Despite a personal dislike for “cycle paths” and most other cycle-specific infrastructure, most of my commute does use one of Melbourne’s bike paths… except that they aren’t really bike paths. Every off-road bicycle path in Melbourne is really a shared-use pedestrian footway, where pedestrians have absolute right of way over cyclists, and there is no legal enforcement of the keep left requirement, or any of the other rules and regulations, which appear to be little more than local council suggestions.
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HFBV?

HFBV?

Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003

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Nearly lost my coffee this morning — in a messy sprayed guffaw at reading the latest obesity-related message in <uk.rec.cycling>. There was mention of someone suffering from HFBV — the acronym looked innocent enough at first it looked reasonable enough — until I read the footnote explaining it at the bottom of the page.
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Death by door!

Death by door!

Friday, Jan 10, 2003

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Yesterday evening we finally got to try out the barbecue in the park — after nearly getting killed buying sausages! A strange coin-operated device, I don’t know why they bother with the overhead of maintaining them and collecting the coins, when a single 20c coin lasted long enough to cook our entire meal! Apart from having to chase away someone’s dog while we cooked, it all made a pleasant change from dinner at home.
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All stand…

All stand…

Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003

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I should have stayed in bed… Coffee failure Got up, stumbled into the kitchen as usual, stood around while the coffee created itself, then poured coffee into two cups. Went to fridge, took out orange juice and milk, unscrewed cap of orange juice, poured orange juice into coffee. Damn. Poured corrupted coffee down the sink and split the remaining coffee into two much smaller cups. Bike failure Now to ride to work… 4km down the track and there’s a loud PING — the sound of a bolt snapping — as one of the bolts holding my seat on snaps and the seat falls off.
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Dog laws always for other dogs…

Dog laws always for other dogs…

Monday, Jan 6, 2003

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An interesting event on the morning ride to work today… I rounded a corner, passed the two women walking along waving empty dog leads in the air, rounded the next corner and slid to a halt to avoid the dog that ran out of the bushes into my front wheel. “Move, you stupid dog” says I, not really expecting a reply. Then from across the river came the following — from a man with two dogs of his own, an anger problem, and probably a guilty conscience — “Get F[$#@$#%ed you F##]%Ging prick, go and F&*(##) off!
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Journal for [2003-01-05 Sun]

Journal for [2003-01-05 Sun]

Sunday, Jan 5, 2003

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Jo decided that she really did need to get on her bicycle a bit more often than once a month, so this afternoon we drove out to Lilydale to ride along the rail-trail. As usual, the Lilydale end is totally unsigned, so we gave up trying to find the trail end and rode straight up the Maroondah highway until we found where it crossed. Once on the trail its a pleasant ride through the forests, lots of other people, but they’re all better behaved than the ones I meet on the tracks in town — everyone keeps left, for example.
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CM

CM

Friday, Nov 29, 2002

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Time to be a feral unemployed bike-activist asshole (according to one posting in that bastion of petrol-headed free speech, <aus.cars>). After several years of reading the Critical Mass mailing lists, but not going to any of their rides, I decided to head into the city for the 7th birthday ride. The last times I was there, years ago, I became quite disillusioned that there were a small number of people who were pro-bike, a large number of people who were anti-car, and a medium sized number of people who were just anti-everything.
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Open letter to idiot

Open letter to idiot

Monday, Nov 25, 2002

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Another day, another homicidal maniac… Dear Sir, Just in case you’re reading this, the reason that the cyclist smacked your car with an open hand — making that remarkably loud sound — was that as you drove through the give-way sign and straight into his path, he had just had to perform an emergency stop to avoid riding into your drivers door at 40km/hr. Oh well, he certainly jumped. Now if only he learns from the experience…
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Thoughts of tandems

Thoughts of tandems

Tuesday, Nov 12, 2002

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The Spiegeltent is back in its box, back home to Belgium for some R&R. That’ll teach me to not quite get around to visiting it. Maybe next year… Hmmm, maybe its time to get serious and compare the KHS Alite and Cannondale MT800 tandems: KHS Alite Cannondale MT800 Frame 7005 Cannondale Mountain Tandem Size 20"x16" MS/LS/LM/XS/XM Weight 17.5kg 17.9kg Price $3300 $4400 Fork O/s CrMo Unicrown Fatty R 1 1/18 Headset Tioga DX/2 Ahead Cane Creek C-1 Rims Sun Rhyno Lite, 40hole Sun Rhyno Lite, 40hole Front Hub Alloy QR Shimano Tandem Rear Hub XT 145mm Shimano Tandem Tyres KHS 26x1.
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Mindless parking

Mindless parking

Friday, Nov 8, 2002

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Flat battery? Need a mate to start your car? Where do you think you should park. No worries — park right across the middle of the bike path, she’ll be right! Just another of the myriad uses that bicycle paths seem to have in the public mind… In case its not quite obvious what the content of the photo is, I was sitting at my least favorite set of lights waiting to cross Malvern road to continue up the bike track.
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Journal for [2002-11-07 Thu]

Journal for [2002-11-07 Thu]

Thursday, Nov 7, 2002

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After four days on the tandem, riding my own bike this morning was a bit surprising. It felt so light and manoeuvrable! I realized as well how much my seat has slipped down over the last couple of weeks, put that back up to normal height, hopped on and nearly swerved into the kerb in our street — the steering seemed that twitchy! The tandem must have helped the fitness though, the ride along the Boulevard was a lot quicker than it usually is!
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ATBIAD 2002

ATBIAD 2002

Sunday, Oct 20, 2002

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stats. Distance 233.32km Riding time 8hr 32m Average speed 27.3km/hr 4.15 am is a completely ridiculous time to be getting out of bed. I hadn’t really slept since about 1 am, neighbours seemed to be coming home steadily between two and three, a cat was yowling outside the window the whole time, and then the birds started chirping around 3.45 am… I think I’ll stick to more sociable bike-riding hours in the future.
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Journal for [2002-10-06 Sun]

Journal for [2002-10-06 Sun]

Sunday, Oct 6, 2002

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Off for the week’s bike riding in a vague hope of maintaining some fitness before Around the Bay in a Day. It was such a calm, still morning that I hurried off down around the bay to Frankston and back, deciding to climb Oliver’s Hill for a little extra exercise. As usual, some petrol-head in a rusty old bomb tried to run me off the road in Frankston, but that’s Frankston — it happens every time.
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Ride to work day

Ride to work day

Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002

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BV's 'Ride to Work' function A little detour on the ride to work this morning — I headed into the city for Bicycle Victoria’s annual “Ride to Work” day and free breakfast. Everything there was all sweetness and light, in some contrast to the ride to get there! One car parked in the clearway/bike lane on Bridge Road. Seven cars and a tow-truck stopped in the bike lanes at traffic lights.
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Journal for [2002-09-30 Mon]

Journal for [2002-09-30 Mon]

Monday, Sep 30, 2002

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Wow, impressive response to a Usenet posting! In a discussion of UK cycle routes and Sustrans routes I made the comment that when searching I hadn’t been able to find any information about them, and then when I looked on the CTC’s website it was rather “hostile,” and that when I sent email enquiries I had never received a response… today I find an email from the Director of the CTC asking for feedback on how I believe they can improve their service — I can think of a few other organisations that could do with that level of customer care!
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100 minutes per day

100 minutes per day

Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002

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There are 1440 minutes in the day, roughly 100 of them I spend on my bike riding to and from work, 500 of them I spend at work. That one hundred minutes riding are far more enjoyable than the rest. Speaking of cycling, I just tried to have a look around the CTC’s website — it seems to be gradually crumbling to pieces. I think if I were them I’d be tempted to just bin the whole thing and start from scratch.
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Bike path surprise!

Bike path surprise!

Monday, Sep 23, 2002

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Yet another “Bike Path Surprise” this morning — rounding one of the corners after going under Toorak road I found myself hitting the brakes to avoid running into the back of a very large council truck. I’m not quite sure why it was on the path, but it seemed to be ripping branches off the bushes on both sides as it passed. Maybe it was some bizarre kind of gardening experiment.
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Journal for [2002-09-15 Sun]

Journal for [2002-09-15 Sun]

Sunday, Sep 15, 2002

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stats. Distance 108.20km 28.5 °C, winds gusting to 100km/hr — yep, sounds like a perfect day to go for a bike ride. My one intelligent decision was to head north, into the wind, in the vague hope that this would make the ride home easier. Out towards Whittlesea on a dead-flat road the head-wind was holding me down to 18km/hr, occasionally slowing to 14 in the stronger sections — on a good day you can average 30 along here!
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GOR

GOR

Saturday, Aug 31, 2002

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stats. Distance 93.8km Escaped in the afternoon for a ride along the Great Ocean Road. Despite all my best efforts I couldn’t quite manage to get my average speed up to 30km/hr. Very light traffic, surprisingly few idiots on the GOR, a clear sky and magnificent views. Average speed was 29km/hr when I got to Apollo Bay, and despite the tailwind on the way home, fell to 28km/hr by the time I returned to Lorne.
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Bad coffee :-(

Bad coffee :-(

Saturday, Aug 24, 2002

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Life’s too short to be served bad coffee. Two bad coffees in a row and now we can’t bring ourselves to call in at Via Ponte. A sad thing when both Ian and Michael are such nice guys, but with all the other cafés in the street — Bridge road — we keep walking past theirs and on to somewhere else. A longish ride in the afternoon. Just like last Saturday I headed out in short sleeves, half thought of coming back for a warmer shirt but didn’t.
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Journal for [2002-08-15 Thu]

Journal for [2002-08-15 Thu]

Thursday, Aug 15, 2002

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Interesting ride home this evening. After a random comment yesterday about Gardiners’ Creek path being far too windy and slow I decided to try the road today. The distance was slightly less, the average speed while riding was higher, but I spent so much time sitting at red lights that I think it ended up taking me longer. That was using a combination of Dandenong road and Orrong road, I’m sure there are other ways.
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Journal for [2002-08-10 Sat]

Journal for [2002-08-10 Sat]

Saturday, Aug 10, 2002

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stats. Distance 78.89km With some misgivings I dragged myself out of bed this morning to go riding with Mark. Evan and Kelvin turned up on time, I couldn’t think of a better way to get from home to Carnegie so we rode up Gardiners Creek bike path, Kelvin muttering that he’d only been on his new bike an hour and here I was taking him around a myriad of right-angled bends on poor surfaces, determined to tip him off.
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A ride

A ride

Tuesday, Jul 30, 2002

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This evening I went on the Mascot Cycles ride for the first time in months. Seems that it has changed a bit, a lot of the faces I knew aren’t there anymore, and the people that are there are there for a more serious ride. The first lap was gentle enough, but as soon as we turned around the roundabout for the second, off they went, harder than I could keep up.
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Cheap bike lights

Cheap bike lights

Thursday, Jul 25, 2002

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Bloody bike lights! Half way to work this morning and my rear flashing light snapped in half and fell off. That’s the second one of these where the plastic clip has just fatigued after a couple of months use, there’s nothing wrong with the light. I managed to catch it as it bounced around on the pannier rack, and have reattached it with packing tape. Not quite as good as gaff tape, but it holds a lot of the world together.
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Journal for [2002-07-23 Tue]

Journal for [2002-07-23 Tue]

Tuesday, Jul 23, 2002

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Riding home I nearly ran off the bike track and into the trees. I thought I was on the track, then saw a red flashing tail light off to my right. Just as I started to head towards it I realised that a) it was only about a foot off the ground, and b) it was bouncing up and down. I swerved back onto the path just in time to see a Jack Russell terrier come bounding out of the shrubbery with the light on its collar!
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Last day at Lorne

Last day at Lorne

Sunday, Jul 14, 2002

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There are huge masses of kelp washed up along the beach and rocks today, but no signs of the whales that were seen on Friday. It’s getting to be a joke that where ever I go, there are no whales. Fishermen on the pier, coffees in the café, another relaxing day as we unwound from last week. 3.30 this afternoon and I decided that I desperately needed to get out and go for a bike ride, to try and capture the last of the sunny afternoon, so while everyone else snoozed on the couch I rode off along the Great Ocean Road, arranging for them to pick me up at Torquay.
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Journal for [2002-06-18 Tue]

Journal for [2002-06-18 Tue]

Tuesday, Jun 18, 2002

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First frost I’ve seen so far this year! Normally I’m not out of bed early enough, but today it was back on norky bike to get to work. Cold and misty along the river, with the fog rising up off the water, then frost along the creek through Hawthorn. I could feel the temperature rise as the path climbed from the creek up to Glenferrie road. This evening, curiosity got the better of me so I went for a ride to see just how bad North Road is for cycling along.
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Journal for [2002-05-30 Thu]

Journal for [2002-05-30 Thu]

Thursday, May 30, 2002

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I couldn’t resist! Standing on the corner waiting to cross Church street, right next to the “forward bicycle box” that Bicycle Victoria is oh so proud of having introduced to Melbourne’s roads. Up comes a car, but does he stop? No, the driver goes straight over the bike box and sits half across the line at the front of the intersection. Not just any car mind you, this was one of Victoria’s Police.
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SMIDSY

SMIDSY

Friday, May 3, 2002

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Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You — it ought to be grounds for instant revocation of a motorists license. Yep, I was knocked off the bike this morning. I stupidly thought that the driver of the stationary vehicle waiting to enter Glenferrie Road — the one who turned his head and looked towards me — had actually seen me. From a standing start he drove about 50cm and got me side on; his first words on leaping out of the car and coming to see me lying on the ground, yep, you guessed, “Sorry Mate, I Just Didn’t See You.
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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