Back online

The last thing posted here was November 2011. Then the PHP fell over, the host went, and that was that for fifteen years.

Every entry before this one came off the Wayback Machine. It had crawled a small climbing site that nobody asked it to save, and that copy is the only reason any of this exists.

In 2008 I rebuilt the gallery from scratch and promised twice, on this site, to release it as open source. Watch this space. The space is still available. That one took months. The whole site came back this time in four days, mostly evenings, most of it done with AI. I have not decided yet whether that is brilliant or slightly unsettling.

The old code is still on a drive. Its git history has the database password sitting in plain text. Not my finest work, but it was twenty years ago. I hope I have come on a bit since then.

The typos are preserved exactly. I spelled Mountain as Mountian in two titles, and I was cyked about a great many things in 2010.

443 photographs went back up. One of them opens fine and the picture inside it is destroyed. It has been like that since at least 2018, so I have been carrying a ruined file about for years without noticing. Nine more are gone for good, including a festival poster I cannot find a copy of anywhere.

The comments are still there. Most are 2010 spam and I have kept the lot, because that is what the internet was like.

Getting the old stuff back was never really why I did it though. I wanted somewhere worth putting new work, and there has not been any for a long time. That is the bit I want to fix.