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The houses are full now

Saturday, May 26, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

The second of the two houses built on the block next door is full now, I’m not sure how many people have moved in but they had all their friends helping unpack the truck — the only way to move house, the more friends the better! That makes two houses with three car spaces that now contain somewhere around seven or eight young guys and who knows how many cars… I guess parking in the street could get even more shambolic than usual if they start parking out the front where customers of the Jaanz singing school park illegally.

Telstra; very big, very confusing

Monday, May 21, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

More fun and games with Telstra; phone, email, phone — no, yes, no. Seems to be differences in the emphasis in the email and phone calls as to the whether it can be relocated (email from sales department) and who requests and pays for it (support and faults department) Today’s call, I stated the same question as last Friday and was again told verbally: The lead-in cable is Telstra infrastructure and neighbours are forbidden from touching it ($50000 fine if they do so).

The neighbours vs Telstra

Friday, May 18, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

Aw crap, what are they playing at? 16th May 2007 Owner XX XXXXXX XXX Oakleigh Vic 3166 The Residents XX XXXXXX XXX Oakleigh Vic 3166 Dear Sir/Madam It has come to our attention, that you have a Telecommunication wire, trespassing across our property. As we have never given you permission for this to happen, we want it removed. We noticed that you already have a pole outside your house, which would be more suitable for that wire to be attached to.

Naughty new neighbours

Monday, Apr 16, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

After many months of building it seems that we’ve finally got people moving in to one of the two units next door — the rear one, since the front one isn’t finished yet. There’s been a “for lease” sign up for a few weeks, sometime last week a couple of cars started appearing in the drive. Saturday afternoon they took all their boxes and rubbish from moving in, neatly bundled it up and dumped it on the street out the front of the house!

Is something afoot?

Saturday, Jan 20, 2007

@ Adrian Tritschler

A trip out of the house in the early afternoon to collect a few things, we returned to discover that some idiot had parked their car sideways across both our driveway and the neighbour’s — and that the neighbour’s landlord’s car was parked in front of that…. Tooting on the horn brought nobody out of the house so we parked in the street and went inside. Five minutes later as I’m in the back garden the old Greek landlord comes out into their backyard showing two young Greek guys around — he’s waxing lyrical about how it isn’t a wide block but it is a long block of land….

small stuff

Wednesday, Oct 11, 2006

@ Adrian Tritschler

End of the day, a hot windy day. All manner of nagging small items lurk in the background to annoy me. I’ve nearly got Muse and Blosxom to where I could change over to them, except for the odd double-publishing problem – and I don’t know whether it’s a bug or operator error. The Edge305 GPS hung this afternoon, first time in months. Maybe I left it plugged into the USB cable when I rebooted the PC, that always seemed to kill it when it was new and running its older software.

Good fences make….

Friday, Sep 15, 2006

@ Adrian Tritschler

According to the proverb; good fences make good neighbours, apparently. Seems we don’t have good neighbours though! Latest on the development front; as Jo was walking out the door she saw that the builders are taking down the fence between our block and theirs! First we have heard of it was when the builder came over and asked whether or not we had a dog! No idea what the answer would have been if she said yes, since they had already removed all the poles and were starting on the sections of the fence palings.

Developers, developers, developers….

Saturday, Sep 9, 2006

@ Adrian Tritschler

No, not the famous ranting video clip of Microsoft’s Steve Balmer. Saturday morning disturbed by chainsaws again. The one big eucalypt tree that we can see from our back window, the one big tree for a couple of streets around, the one big tree that always has magpies warbling and lorikeets shrieking from the branches — well the tree’s gone now, cut down and pulped up. The old house and garden will go soon, to be replaced by yet another pair of big-as-you-can-build two-storey brick boxes, the rest of the block covered in concrete car-parking, white pebbles and tidy-little evergreen shrubs in pots.

Developments at Number 10

Monday, Aug 7, 2006

@ Adrian Tritschler

An interesting conversation with the local council’s planning office today; I decided to call them up and query our neighbour’s actions on Saturday of cutting down the tree that was expressly retained on their planning permit. Half way through explaining the permit’s application, objection, and granting history the women interrupted with “… and let me guess, they’ve cut down the tree.” . When I replied yes, it was met with “Why does that not surprise me in the least — oh, I shouldn’t say things like that, um hang on, I’ll put you onto the planner officer responsible for that case.

Developments at Number 10

Saturday, Aug 5, 2006

@ Adrian Tritschler

Tree to be retained — they lied The planning permit went up; bulldoze the single-storey house and build two, two-storey houses on the block. We objected. We were over-ruled and the plan accepted, the plan that included “retaining established shade tree” . The bulldozer came and the old house departed — but the tree remained! The tree was carefully protected by plastic “do not bulldoze me” tape, protected from the bulldozer driver, but not from the owner!

We used to have a neighbour

Wednesday, Jun 7, 2006

@ Adrian Tritschler

Three in the afternoon and the SMS comes in: “Large orange bulldoser (sic.) has just arrived on the back of truck!” Two and a half hours of crashing and grinding noises and now there is no house. Demolition of number 10 Mill road; the backhoe wreaks havoc No chance now of rescuing even a cutting from their enormous Blue Moon rose — now buried underneath several tonnes of bricks and rubble.

Demolition and Development

Friday, Jun 2, 2006

@ Adrian Tritschler

Start of demolition of number 10 Mill road The house next door is finally going, the inexorable pressure of the developers. Executive summary is to bulldoze the old house and build two, two-storey town houses on the block. Flatten the garden and cover what’s left with concrete car-parking. Our objections to council of a two-storey townhouse looking straight down into our garden overruled, not even acknowledged in the planning approval that we received once the ruling was made.

Neighbours

Tuesday, Jul 5, 2005

@ Adrian Tritschler

Are the neighbours moving out? Has the old lady died? I wonder if I’ll ever know, in nine months we’ve never been able to speak to them, the guy seems to avoid eye contact the few times that he is out in the front garden. My camera behaved oddly with that second photo too. It claims that the data is corrupt, yet downloaded it and other programs can view it. Is it the camera?

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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.

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