Simon

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#Archaeoastronomy and #Stonehenge geek.

Ex-IT #Perl & webdev until I got bored of making computers do things for other people. Now work for the #NationalTrust as a professional duster.

Other incarnations of me include:

freewheelin@cix (still on #CIX, infrequently)

weborguk on the Birdsite (for now)

$myrealname on FarceBork (if you know me, you'll be able to find me)

My websites:

http://web.org.uk
http://www.stonesofstonehenge.org.uk
http://www.stonehengemonument.co.uk

Web.org.ukhttp://web.org.uk
Stones of Stonehengehttp://www.stonesofstonehenge.org.uk/
Stonehenge Monumenthttp://www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/
SimonDec 30
Justin MasonDec 29
Oh crap. Gmail is deprecating support for picking up mail from a remote server using POP3 polling in January 😭 Given that I switched to this mode due to reliability problems with direct delivery via mail forwarding, this really sucks...
SimonFeb 15, 2025

The Larkhill Sun Gap - an article by me working out exactly where it was.

https://www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2025/02/the-larkhill-sun-gap-revisited.html

The Larkhill Sun Gap Revisited

The Summer Solstice Sunrise line as seen from Stonehenge runs across the landscape and over the ridgeline at Larkhill, at the northern end o...

SimonJan 17, 2025

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/mysteries-of #Stonehenge

This Sunday, 6pm, a collection of folks chatting about the rocks. Me included.

SimonSep 13, 2024
Five stones to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. #Stonehenge https://www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2024/09/the-founding-stones-of-stonehenge.html
The Founding Stones of Stonehenge

I was drafting a summary diagram for use in a presentation I'm giving tonight to the Hampshire Astronomical Society on the Astronomy of Ston...

SimonAug 28, 2024

Sometimes, the most unexpected things pop out of nowhere and bonk you on the head. #Stonehenge

https://www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2024/08/implications-of-upright-altar-stone-in.html

Implications of an upright Altar Stone in WA 3639

In the previous post ( Is the Altar Stone the founding stone of Stonehenge? ) I suggested that perhaps Atkinson was correct when he suggeste...

SimonAug 27, 2024
More musings on the Altar Stone at #Stonehenge https://www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2024/08/is-altar-stone-founding-stone-of.html
Is the Altar Stone the founding stone of Stonehenge?

You've got to be pretty motivated to bring a 6 ton lump of sandstone from the environs of the Orcadian Basin to Stonehenge (see  The Scottis...

SimonAug 14, 2024
Some thoughts on today's #Stonehenge news http://www.stonehengemonument.co.uk/2024/08/the-scottish-stone.html
The Scottish Stone

Here we are, in the middle of August 2024, and over 100 years of received wisdom about the source of the Altar Stone at Stonehenge has appar...

SimonMay 11, 2024
Northernmost moonset (within about 10' of max possible declination) and the #aurora at #Stonehenge tonight.
SimonJul 6, 2023

Just woke from an unscheduled nap, in which I dreamt that someone had launched a desktop and mobile app that presented all the feeds from all my myriad socMed platforms in one unified, filterable, auto-categorised stream.

Think the idea's bubbled up in my subconscious from David Brin's "Earth", which I read over 30 years ago.

Peculiar things, brains.

SimonJul 4, 2023
LLMs that are trained by scraping the Internet will inevitably scrape the output of LLMs that have been used to generate content. The utility and trustworthiness of online sources will therefore decline over time and at an ever-increasing rate. This is the Ouroboros Syndrome.