April 2024 – www.chrisrcook.com

The Man Who Killed Google Search

Ed Zitron’s polemic into the origins of Google Search’s increasingly visible rot is worth a read.

Northern Ireland’s Most Wanted: The Lost Television Dramas

Having recently re-watched ‘Missing Believed Wiped‘, I stumbled across a pair of nice articles covering the lost and wiped dramas of Northern Ireland – a region that, like the rest of the UK, lost a number of pieces to a poor archiving policy and the the claws of the bulk eraser.

lspci and the Pimoroni NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5

It appears that, in spite of what I said in my last post on the matter, my Pimoroni NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5 is not going to just sit on the shelf for a couple of months.

Pimoroni’s Raspberry Pi 5 NVME x2 Kit

Having done absolutely nothing with the Pimoroni Raspberry Pi 5 NVME Kit I bought at Christmas, it seemed eminently sensible to buy it’s bigger brother – the NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5! And I’m certain this kit will also enjoy spending the next three months on a shelf!

The Yorkshire Wildlife Park Expansion – An Early 2024 Update

Introduction

It’s been two years since my last update from the Wildlife Park and the big news is the addition of a new set of cheetah enclosures and a soon to be displayed family of lions*!

_{*Which I shall cover when they’re actually out and about.}

Map

The park’s public map as it stands today. It’s very similar to the previous map with one notable exception – the addition of the new Cheetah Territory at the bottom of the right hand panel!

Maps – The Early April 2024 Update

It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these but… here are 511 additional map images of Northumberland (using the old Meridian) from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series.

Interesting places covered this update include:

Holy Island

Brewery Horses Making Hay / BBC Nationwide (1974)

Another interesting spot of archive footage – Brewers drays trotting around Sunderland!