A Little More Web Kipple
The Internet Archive has launched a WordPress link monitoring tool that will redirect your external links if they go down and will cease if they return.
Continue reading “Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer”It looks like the Pink Floyd team have commissioned a new music video to an old song. I like it and think the grainy Scifi-esque landscape works really well with the dystopian nature of Welcome to the Machine.
New toy time! Crossing the Ouse aims to be a comprehensive history of crossings of the River Ouse. I’ve only posed one entry so far – Fishergate Loop (1961) – but I have the various bits and pieces needed for several more.
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Penguins. Birmingham Sealife Centre, February 2026
Galileo’s watercolours of the various moon phases from 1609. Note how the terminator between the light and dark sides is not smooth – thus showing that the moon’s surface is also not smooth.
This is very bad. But also kinda fun.
It’s time for another exciting update from the demolition and rebuilding of the former farm at Middlecave Yard. And, if you’ve followed these posts before you’ll have noticed the big change on the site since last time – the both the structural pillars and roof have been added!
And there have been two changes since our last visit; the first – and most obvious – is the installation of the steel structure and roof. More on that later. The second change is a little more subtle – an estate agent’s sign has been installed and you can now view the Middlecave Yard listing online (Wayback Machine Archive).
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‘Cat Crossing’
Malton, January 2026.
A time lapse of Boxing Day 2025’s sunrise over Malton and the Yorkshire Wolds.
