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At the risk of breaking the
prime directive of maintaining a serene level of boredom on this web site
it has been suggested that there should be a page indicating if anything
ever gets added, or removed or of any other event that breaches normal
boredom levels. This is where such events will appear, those with a weak
constitution may wish never to visit this page again. |
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| December 2022 |
The Neilston Webcam 2023 Calendar is now available for download. |
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| February 2022 |
The Live weather option is hopefully working again after a problem has been sorted. |
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2020 |
Nothing much happened, apart from Covid 19. |
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| February 2019 |
A new video album has been added to the photogallery. This will show short video clips taken by a new MeteorCam which watches the night sky looking for Meteors. I have also converted the existing video in the gallery to MP4 so it will play in modern browsers. |
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| January 2019 |
The Birdbath Camera has been updated to a new HD camera that gives much better picture quality. For a higher video frame rate use the Live Stream option on the Birdbath page (requires HTML5 compatible Browser). There is also an archive of still images taken in the last 48hrs when movement is detected. |
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2017 |
Nothing much happened, other than the bins being emptied |
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| November 2016 |
The Birdbath camera has been updated to new capture card due to a Windows 10 update breaking the USB drivers for the old capture device, thanks a lot Microsoft! |
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| March 2015 |
The weather station solar radiation detector records the partial Solar Eclipse on 20th March. The dip at the arrow shows the sun light level falling and rising before and after the eclipse with the peak around 9:30am |
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| January 2015 |
Over the Christmas period the website has been migrated over to a new server with much more room for the photogallery, there is now about 40Gb of space to fill, I hope it lasts a while. |
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| August 2014 |
The Birdbath Cam is once again working properly including giving a picture at night, watch out for the mice and cats! |
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| December 2013 |
On the 5th of December the Neilston Webcam Weather Station recorded a gust of 52mph, beating the previous all time high of January 2012 by 1mph. |
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August 2013 |
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| Rumours that the reason the birdbath is no longer illuminated at night is because I haven't paid my electricity bill are completely unfounded. |
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February 2012 |
A new locally hosted guest book has been installed due to the host of the previous version closing. Unfortunately all the previous 6 or 7 years worth of comments are lost. |
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January 2012 |
On the 3rd of January the Neilston weather station records a wind gust of 51mph, not exactly of biblical proportions, but still a record high for the 10 years that data has been collected here. |
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February 2011 |
February the 24th saw the 200,000th visitor stumble across the web site. This particular web surfer was from Florida and was presumably looking for a break in the monotony of blue sky and sunny weather. |
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May 2010 |
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The winter of 2009/10 saw the demise of the hedge due to frost damage, it was getting too big anyway...... |
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Long live the Hedge! |
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After much digging and many car loads full of old hedge a new box hedge takes its place, this one is going to stay small..... probably. |
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April 2010 |
New archive area now available, see what you've missed on the webcam. Watch a whole year in 5 minutes, more excitement than you could ever dream of on the Neilston WebCam. |
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October 2009 |
The 2000th picture has been added to the Photo Gallery |
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January 2009 |
The Neilston Webcam enters its 10th year of operation, nobody notices. |
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December 2007 |
The birdbath camera has been changed for an infra red version that gives a picture at night. Not many birds to see but watch out for the mice and cats. |
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September 2007 |
The Neilston Webcam was Steve Wright's Webcam of the day on the 14th of September. Luckily Steve was on holiday that week and someone else was doing his show, so I don't feel so bad. Love the show though :-) |
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August 2007 |
The entire web site gets a complete make over. Its only taken about 6 years to get round to it. Planning is already under way for the next face lift, expected to take place some time in the next decade. |
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A new video album has been added to the Photo Gallery. I've started it off with clips from old cine film taken in the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be. |
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April 2007 |
Infamy, infamy, they've all got it infamy. An unexpected boost in visitors was received due to this article in the Grauniad. It seems the webcam isn't very high on the boredom table. |
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Apparently, it was also mentioned in dispatches in a Rupert Murdoch owned London broadsheet. But by the time the stage coach bring the papers up from London to Neilston they are old news. |
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Hodit & Dodit's big day out in Neilston |
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As if to prove that few journalists often come up with a story of their own, a Glasgow tabloid newspaper then sent out an intrepid reporter. They travel in pairs though, one to hold the camera and the other to hold the pencil and jotter. The illustrious duo can be seen on the right as they cover this major breaking news story. It seems that eventually the tranquility got to them and they left to return to the bright lights and tall buildings of the great metropolis we know as Glasgow.
"La Webcam de Neilston" also got a mention on the Radio France website. Since it would breach the prime directive of maintaining a serene level of boredom on the website I was forced to decline to participate in a slot done by Ireland's RTE Radio 1 Drivetime with Dave show.
This is all way too much excitement. Meanwhile...... the grass continued to grow and the bins were emptied as usual. |
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February 2007 |
BirdbathCam makes its debut, no guarantee of any activity though. Apart from the live view it takes a picture when it sees any movement, which includes shadows unfortunately. |
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January 2007 |
The 100,000th
surfer visits the Website on the 17th of January. The honour appears to go to someone
working with Dundee Council, far be it from me to suggest a councillor might be someone who'd have plenty time on their hands during working hours. |
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October 2006 |
The 1000th picture is added to the Photogallery. There are now over 500Mb photographs on line. |
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April 2006 |
The Photogallery has moved to a new domain and web host, please update any links you have.
This has come about to due problems with the current web hosting service
(prowebspace and associates for those that want to know). The gallery is
as it was but the domain is now www.drookitagain.co.uk rather than the .com
flavour. Now that its done I will return to adding new photos at regular
intervals. |
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November 2005 |
Local and national
Mesomap added to weather page. |
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June 2005 |
Coppermine Photogallery updated to latest version. There are only minor differences that users will
notice. You now get the choice of picking many languages, personally I find
Japanese and Arabic the least helpful but the most aesthetically pleasing.
Also, the Real Time option has been removed from the Weather
menu, this has long since been superceded by the Live Weather option.
If anyone still uses the client it will continue to work though. |
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February 2005 |
The 50,000th
surfer visits the Website on the 18th of February. The honour goes to someone
from Canada, the level of boredom achieved is unknown. |
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October 2004 |
500th picture
added to the Photogallery,
quantity rather than quality. |
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April 2004 |
Weather pages updated, live weather data now available for browsers with Macromedia
Flash. |
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Marchl 2004 |
Solar radiation
detector added to weather station, I don't expect
this to wear out very quickly. |
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After 2 years
of procrastination I've got round to finding a new Host for the photogallery.
The new Neilston
WebCam Photogallery is now taking shape and more pictures will be added
over the coming months. |
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February 2004 |
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December 2003 |
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Mystery Cult
Webmaster spotted on national television. |
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November 2003 |
National Tabloid
Newspaper declares web site has become a cult. Local tabloid
newspaper calls webmaster the 'mystery man' |
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October 2003 |
An experimental
streaming view was added but due to the frenzied level of excitement this
induced in visitors it was decided to remove it in the interests of public
health. Confused surfers claimed one minute there was nothing then after
as little as a days wait there might be a car. One dedicated surfer claimed
to have seen at least two people in a 3 week constant vigil, medication
is now said to be helping to return this surfer to their senses. |
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Longer Ago |
I can't remember. |
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Last Century |
The Neilston
Webcam goes on line, for no particularly good reason. |
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