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Simon's Blog - Hot news from the future!
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In Hans Baumann's book "Lion Gate and Labyrinth" (trans. Stella Humphries, line drawings by Hans Peter Renner, Oxford University Press 1967), which relates the stories of Schliemann's discovery of Troy and Evans' discovery of the Palace of Knossos, there are a number of line illustrations of Cretan seal stones.
These have no cross references to the originals so I wonder if anyone recognises where these three are from...
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... unt, I think that it is just about time dat ve had vone!"
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That's it (I think) - all customer websites, plus my own, plus all the infrastructure now migrated to the new servers.
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First contact (from Stonehenge) in about 5 minutes.
Unfortunately, we only get a partial eclipse.
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Using X-ray tomography and other extreme cleverness, scientists have decoded the Antikythera Device at last.
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From the www.bdonline.co.uk website:
English Heritage is to launch a public consultation to find a new site for its long-planned Stonehenge visitor centre.
The news comes more than six months after it scrapped Denton Corker Marshall’s design for a centre. That scheme, which had been granted planning permission in December, was shelved after the government decided not to fund a £500 million A303 tunnel. Heritage Lottery Funding had been conditional upon the tunnel going ahead. Denton Corker Marshall won a competition to design the facility in 2001 after EH had ditched a previous scheme by Edward Cullinan Architects.
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Started the process of virtualising some of the Linux servers I've got here at home, with a view to trying to cut back the electricity bill.
Decided to start with the oldest machine - a PII 233MHz with 64MB RAM and a 3GB IDE disk.
It was a lot easier than I thought.
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Salisbury and Devizes Museums are packed to bursting with artifacts and archives to the extent that curating new ones is becoming a problem.
Right on the edge of the Stonehenge World Heritage site sits the town of Amesbury, almost a ghost town where rival supermarkets compete to build megastores in sight of one another in some weird parody of "the competitive market"
Smack in the middle of Amesbury sits the old derelict Co-Op supermarket, a hideous eyesore of redbrick and chipboarded-up windows where the interior lights are left on all night 'for health and safety'.
This should be razed to the ground and the extensive area it occupies should be redeveloped into the Stonehenge World Heritage Centre Museum.
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... though the tarzan swing is perhaps a little unlikely....
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I suspected this would be the case, but nice to have confirmation from experiment.
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After configuring SNMP on a new host to be monitored, then trying a test snmpwalk from a separate monitoring host and getting back:
Timeout: No Response from (monitored host)
... then this is easily fixed when you remember after 3 hours that you should probably have opened the firewall on the MONITORING system as well as the one being monitored, so the SNMP answer can get back in.
Duh!
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From Salisbury Journal
"VANDALS used a hammer and screwdriver to damage the Hele Stone at Stonehenge between 9pm and 10pm on Thursday"
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What better way to spend a Bank Holiday Monday than walking the solstice line from Sidbury Hill towards Stonehenge.
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Wiltshire County Council's core strategy document (presently out for consulation) mentions planning for new housing and discusses a desired density per hectare.
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I have a Google alert that mails me links to any news stories on the web that mention Stonehenge.
There're usually one or two every day, not all to do with collections of enormous rocks - it's amazing how many other things have been named 'Stonehenge', but that's by the by...
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Strikingly accurate they were too, those folks at the Ladies Home Journal...
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From the Wikipedia entry on geodesy...
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Switch off your lights for an hour at 8pm on the 29th March.
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Not just any old capacitors, mind...
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After a weekend's work...
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Just had notice from Julian about the FOAM activities for 2008.
James, I know you wanted to come along to one of these events.
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I'm considering doing the full walk from Avebury to Stonehenge, wondering if Bruce might be interested in the marathon.
Rather more uphill and down dale than the usual road race.
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A neolithic 'city' with buildings apparently of dressed limestone has been discovered in Egypt's Faiyum Oasis.
More here
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Not that this comes as any surprise, but to reinforce the perception he's written a column in AutoExpress in favour of making the A303 a dual carriageway past Stonehenge.
He claims the CO2 emissions of standstill traffic and its effect on global warming as justification.
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The featured map on "Can Computers Think" looks interesting.
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I first saw this style being used by a blind guy about 10 years ago (though he held the guitar across his knees) - but it seems to be becoming very popular.
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It's OK - it's heading for Mars, not us.
Only a 1 in 25 chance of an impact, but still worth keeping an eye on.
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Over Xmas I received a letter from one of the local conservation groups of which I'm a member asking for volunteers for an archaeological rescue dig.
Six late Bronze Age palstave and socketed axes had been turned up in a recently cultivated field and the race was on to try and see whether it was part of a still-buried hoard.
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