davblogIn which someone you've never heard of writes about things you have no interest inHuman Dinosaurs- March 27, 2008 Having just been saying how much I like the new Guardian URL scheme, it was interesting to see the URL for this article from today's paper. The article is about some early hominan1 remains that have been found in northern Spain. The URL ishttp:www.guardian.co.ukscience2008mar27archaeology.dinosaursI can obviously see why it's in the science section. And of course it's about archaeology. But "dinosaurs" What connection do hominina have with dinosaurs They are separated in time by about sixty...http://blog.dave.org.uk/2008/03/human-dinosaurs.html Guardian URLs- March 27, 2008 I'm a great believer in the idea that URLs should be permanent. When I publish something on the web then (hopefully) people link to it, and it would be nice to think that those links still work in five, ten or fifty years time. A few months ago I changed the URL scheme for davblog, but I ensured that the old-style URLs would redirect to the new ones.Of course, this is a relatively small site. It has a couple of thousand entries. My fix to ensure that the old URLs still worked simply consisted...http://blog.dave.org.uk/2008/03/guardian-urls.html |