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I saw most of the Time Team episode Celtic Spring just now. I’m a fan of Time Team. I know it’s fashionable to knock it, but I think it does what it does really well. Celtic Spring is a good example because it was a site where a variety of artefacts had been taken from [...]

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It’s not procastination - it’s research

I’m giving a paper at an English conference on Monday. I’m not a student of English and I’ve no idea what they talk about so naturally I’m preparing by reading around the the blogs I look at regularly. They’re in English and hypertext (the subject of my paper) so it’s research, not procrastination. As well [...]

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Not strictly relevant

One reason for setting this site up was to centralise comments I was making on other sites. Friends could then point out inconsistencies and point at me singing “You are an argumentative sod after all”. To which, of course, I vigorously disagree. I’ve since not commented on anything. Prof Rubenstein’s thoughts on evolution almost stirred [...]

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Space Archaeology II

The Archaeology of Mars
It looked for a while as though I may have had to prepare a presentation at short notice for the Brown Bag series at Leicester. I get bored presenting on my PhD, because so much of the basics need to be repeated again and again. For a 20 minute talk I can [...]

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