Okay. Just for the record, here’s the long (and pretty complicated) way to get a new blog post up.

1. Write on my computer (iMac)
2. Check in the post to Git (locally)
3. Push the changes to my blog repo on BitBucket
4. Log into my Virtual Machine (local) where Jekyll is installed (see note 1)
5. Pull the changes from Git (BitBucket)
6. Run Jekyll jekyll build
7. rsync the new _site folder, so the changes appear live on this blog
8. Check in the new _site changes
9. Commit to Git, push
10. Pull changes from Git to my iMac (for backing up/records)

Should have just stayed with Wordpress.

So it’s been a while!

I’ve just changed static site generators to Jekyll proper. Before it was doing something with GitHub Pages (which is also Jekyll) but I forgot how to update it.

So I’ve reinstalled Jeykll, changed the theme and given the whole thing a bit of a quick make over.

Seems to be working, so that’s good. I guess I’ll post again in about 2 years.

Now to work out how to publish this easily…

I finally got around to moving the hosting of my blog.

It was on GitHub Pages, but I got sick of that. So I moved it instead to my server, so I could add HTTPS via Lets Encrypt.

Happy green little lock! Hello.

World Record

Sheep name	Fleece Weight	Nationality	Location of Fleece	Date	Sources
Chris	40.45 kg	Australian	Canberra, ACT	September 3, 2015	1 2
Big Ben	28.90 kg	New Zealand	Omahau Hill Station, South Canterbury	September 2014	1
Shrek	27 kg	New Zealand	Bendigo Station, Otago	April 28, 2004	1

Australian Record

Sheep name	Fleece Weight	State/Territory	Location of Fleece	Date	Sources
Chris	40.45 kg	ACT	Canberra	September 3, 2015	1 2
Shaun	~23.5 kg	Tasmania	Stonehenge	August 29, 2014	1 2

Tasmanian Record

Sheep name	Fleece Weight	Location	Date	Sources	Note
Shaun	~23.5 kg	Stonehenge	August 29, 2014	1 2
Sheila	21.79 kg	Buckland	January 4, 2016	1	1

Notes:

1. Not record breaking, just good attempt

Well, well, well. The results are in, and I’m a little surprised.

20 days ago, I started an experiment to see if Vegemite and sugar was enough to start a fermentation.

Why? Several weeks ago we saw many stories in Australia popup that Vegemite was being used to create alcohol.

The BBC (and many other media outlets)…

reported that Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion said Vegemite was being bought in bulk to make moonshine, and that because “brewer’s yeast is a key ingredient in the spread”.

I said on Twitter, that hypothesis was that vegemite alone is not enough to cause fermentation, but is instead used (if at all) as a nutrient for the yeast.

It appears that I am wrong.