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As I transition my blog from my old WordPress blog to this one, you’ll see posts pop up out of order, layouts change, posts not quite finished, et cetera. However, hopefully you like the new streamlined speed and simplicity of my new site. If you do spot a weird error, please tell me.
Dont ever use <B> in HTML... err... Wrong!
If you’ve ever Google’d the humble HTML <b> tag, and read more than three of the results returned, you’ll have inevitably come across the hordes of self-righteous knobs on StackExchange berating people (especially those new to HTML/CSS) for using the tag. Their reason? It’s semantically-invalid HTML. They. Are. Wrong! The key to the <b> tag, or even the <i> for that matter (but that’s a different post for another day) is that the usage is different than what you might expect…
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Why caravans are “The Enemy”
When my partner Danielle and I are out riding our bikes, we have a few shorthand ways to alert each other to various dangers, some of them obvious, some of them little in-jokes known only to us
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Transitioning from Wordpress to Hugo
I have, for the past few years, run a little personal blog on Wordpress called “Getting Out There”. Over the years I’ve hosted it at different hosts and domains, and added to it much the same as one might build extra rooms to a renovated house. I’ve run a little WooCommerce, added GravityForms and custom post types and photos and before you know it, the bloat is very, very real. With that bloat comes more hosting costs, which for a little personal blog that I am certain nobody reads, is unsustainable.
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A nice relaxing birthday fishing session
I’m in Brisbane, Queensland for the Matildas vs Nigeria football match on Thursday night, as part of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. As today is my birthday I decided to take the day off work and spend it fishing and relaxing in the sunshine. So I packed my light gear and travel rod and hitched a train out to Sandgate, and fished the beach around Shorncliffe and the river inlet into Cabbage Tree Creek.
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Melbourne to Brisbane by train for the Matildas
The FIFA Women’s World Cup is in full swing and this lucky little bugger has tickets to the Australia vs. Nigeria match in Brisbane on 27 July. To make a real journey out of it, I decided to opt for the overnight XPT from Melbourne, via Sydney, to Brisbane instead of flying. I’ve never travelled in a sleeper carriage on the train before. I took the train home from Adelaide in 2019 but that was a day trip.
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Sneaking away mid-week for an Eildon fishing session
With everything in my life being so busy lately, I managed to get away for a sneaky mid-week overnight fishing trip on Tuesday afternoon, returning last night.
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2022: What a year so far! 😮💨
Since starting the year working for the Starlight Children’s Foundation, I’ve been very happy, and very busy in equal measure. We might only be in mid-April but it feels like a very long time.
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My Melbourne commute to work
One of the great benefits of my new job at the Starlight Children’s Foundation is the location of the Melbourne office: right on the Yarra River where Church Street becomes Chapel Street, in a commercial hub of the city known as Cremorne in Richmond.
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I got the job! Working at Starlight Children’s Foundation
Remember that job interview I sat in December in Wodonga? No? Well, I did, and I got the gig! I’ve started working at the Starlight Children’s Foundation as a digital marketing producer.
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Roaming around Wodonga/Albury
My partner is a criminal barrister, and a few times a year she undertakes circuits, where she travels to a regional court and works there for 3–4 weeks. Sometimes she’ll come home on the weekends, sometimes not, depending on the distance from home. This year her Wodonga circuit has run for the past four weeks, and I’ve joined her for this last week to spend some time together riding around the area, both with her and on my own.
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So where the hell ya been?!
The last time I wrote, I was just tentatively getting back on the bike and out on the road. Wow, what a whirlwind few months it has been!!
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Pure joy in getting back on the road again!
Finally got back on my bike today for the first time in 2021, after seven months recovering from spinal surgery. The shitty weather and blowing cold Ballarat wind couldn’t take away from my sheer joy in being back on the road, with the wind in my face, fighting back real tears of relief.
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Planning a tour of the Apple Isle: Tasmania 2022
With international borders closed (for Australians, anyway) until god-only-knows-when, and a nice local trip looking very attractive as an introduction to touring for my partner Danielle, we’ve been planning a Tasmanian East Coast cycling trip for a few months now.
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Bored and hunting some local stockies
My mate Stephen and I hit the local lakes around Ballarat today, hunting some little trout that have been recently stocked for the school holidays.
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First half-century in the bag!
I achieved my first half-century today, logging 50 kilometres on my way out to Creswick and back to Ballarat. The ride was very scenic, and the smell of eucalypts made for a strenuous but altogether very enjoyable day out. This wasn’t just the longest bike ride I’ve ever undertaken (so far) in terms of distance, but also time in the saddle, hitting almost three hours’ riding time. Although I’m really quite sore tonight, I’m also rapt to have hit that milestone so early in the month, and hopefully I can push it out to 60 by the end of April.
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