Rubens Blog
Rubens Blog
Ruben Hillier
Hi I am Ruben Hillier. My handle, since back in the day, is tregeagle. My pronouns are he/him.
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I am publishing to my static site via my phone. To do so I am using a script which I run in Termux. I'm editing the markdown file using an app called rather unimaginativly, Markdown. Let's post this and see how it goes. UPDATE obvs. it...
The meeting place in West-End, Brisbane I flew down from Bundaberg and picked up my ute from the Brisbane airport. It still worked although the spare tyre was flat. I got it fixed by a nice bloke in Buranda. I had time for a couple of...
A long exposure night photo taken from the deck of Muscat 7 off the coast of Bundaberg I flew out of Brisbane to Vanuatu where Dan met his nephew, Ethan and I at the airport. Within a couple of hours we were pulling up the anchor and...
When the world comes to an end there will be a fire sale. I was going to write up on my recent journey from Broken Hill to Vanuatu and back. Maybe I will later. It was quite exciting for me. However, after a couple of weeks of constant...
long dusty days and days of driving The 40 hours of driving from Broken Hill to the east coast and back felt more adventurous and enjoyable than my sailing trip over the Pacific. On the way out I turned down the Tilpa road which turned...
A tin 'copter in Bulloo Country I don't think she flies. ... Permalink
I'm too old for this shit - it took Salman Rushdie 13 years to finally write his first book, Midnight's Children To take what is in my brain and send it down to my fingers seems to get harder the more I try. Why is that? So many things...
A few years after writing the letter Gaylord achieved his dream and became a Tram driver on the Broken Hill Steam Tram This is a letter H recently submitted as homework. Hopefully posting it here won't set off stupid Turnitin before the...
Organising my thoughts is a skill I may never acquire. It gets worse as I get older. Thankfully the world is populated by wonderful beings who share their discoveries. Thank you @Rek for sharing your work . This Spellbook of Terminal...
this is the song of mehitabel of mehitabel the alley cat - Don Marquis A few weeks ago I noticed Graham Cox had listed his boat Mehitabel * tentatively for sale . In the advertisement he wrote, having decided I want to go cruising again,...
Day off today, I serviced the extractor fan in the bathroom. Um... that was about it. I was about to start cooking up a storm in the kitchen. I had a leg of lamb, a fistful of rosemary and was ready to go. Then Re got home end reminded...
We live on Billy-Goat Hill which is the name I also gave to the server running data.tregeagle.com. In previous incarnations it was a media server pluigged into the telly; a web development staging server and a few weeks ago a weather...
I booked a couple of weeks off work for September a while ago. The original plans evaporated leaving me with two delightfully free weeks. Of course I am going to take my bicycle and ride The Mawson Trail , a popular ride which is...
As an impoverished cycling courier in London during the late 80s I read a biographical account by a young man who journeyed around the world on his bicycle. Like all my favourite books I gave it away at some point and have regretted it...
I keep meaning to put these scripts somewhere I can find them and then I don't. So here, I am putting it here - and tagging the crap out of it. Stupid brain. This script is basically how I automate finding and updating my external/WAN IP...