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Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Wednesday August 18, 2010 |
Gloriosa rothschildiana This summer I have been growing a few new things. My favourite has to be the Gloriosa rothschildiana . It is a rather unusual climbing member of the lily family, native to South Africa . Earlier in the year I was...
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Wednesday August 18, 2010 |
Gloriosa rothschildiana This summer I have been growing a few new things. My favourite has to be the Gloriosa rothschildiana . It is a rather unusual climbing member of the lily family, native to South Africa . Earlier in the year I was...
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Wednesday August 18, 2010 |
Gloriosa rothschildiana This summer I have been growing a few new things. My favourite has to be the Gloriosa rothschildiana . It is a rather unusual climbing member of the lily family, native to South Africa . Earlier in the year I was...
OA - Ubuntu
General | Tuesday August 10, 2010 |
I've spent some time automating the deployment of virtual machines using vmbuilder and puppet. There are two reasons behind this: I give every IT person in the company (about 8-10 of us) a VM for development, to play with new software and try fancy...
OA - Ubuntu
management | Friday August 06, 2010 |
In a press release that surprised me (I'm more used to thinking of them as a .net developing, MS Shiny Partner, if ain't got a 6-figure pricetag it ain't worth nothing sort of a consultancy), Accenture have announced nearly everything open source is just...
Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK
opensource | Wednesday August 04, 2010 |
Once in a while, Oxford Archaeology get called upon to do some really big archaeological projects, like road schemes and airport expansion, that cover huge areas, go on for years, and generate loads of data. We love these, because it’s not very often...
Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology
Saturday July 17, 2010 |
Well, it was a great week, although rain showers and poor broadband signals from the field meant a lack of daily updates. Nonetheless, we finished off the week of students training in a big way, with the recovery of a Late Roman buckle. Two years ago we...
OA - Ubuntu
General | Thursday July 15, 2010 |
Open data in Archaeology is growing in popularity, so I thought I'd write a quick post about it here. We've recently released our latest Open Source GIS application and we're continuing to use as much Free software as possible, we're also part of a...
OA - Ubuntu
General | Wednesday July 14, 2010 |
Hello everyone, posting this on behalf of my colleague Ben as he was being a bit shy Please forgive him the "Press release" style - this is the result of months (if not years) of work so we're all pretty enthusiast! So here we go... OA...
OA - Ubuntu
General | Tuesday July 13, 2010 |
Nowadays we tend to have more and more devices that allow us to connect to the internet. Forget about the family desktop, now people have netbooks, smartphones, laptops - so very often, more than just one device. But ideally, we would like to access all our...
Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology
Saturday July 10, 2010 |
Work continued apace over the past two days and at the end of the work week, pits had been half sectioned and recorded. Half sectioning involves removing half of the soil to see the extent of the feature, which is then drawn in detail so that the record of it...
Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology
Saturday July 10, 2010 |
It would appear that the series of intercutting pits we explored earlier in the week is resolving itself into an Early Saxon 'grub hut'. These are the simplest types of Saxon buildings, often described as workshops, but their true function is a constant...
Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology
Saturday July 10, 2010 |
Intense cleaning of both sites commenced today, with some stunning results for the Neolithic trench. The cursus is not quite visible in the picture below, but the ring ditch is very clearly showing through the surrounding soils. On the Late Roman site, teams...
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Friday July 09, 2010 |
Last month I had the pleasure of visiting a rather delightful Cotswold garden with The Galloping Gardener . The Stone House is a 2 1/2 acre privately owned garden on heavy acid clay. It is located in the small and very picturesque village of Wyck...
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Friday July 09, 2010 |
Last month I had the pleasure of visiting a rather delightful Cotswold garden with The Galloping Gardener . The Stone House is a 2 1/2 acre privately owned garden on heavy acid clay. It is located in the small and very picturesque village of Wyck...
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Friday July 09, 2010 |
Last month I had the pleasure of visiting a rather delightful Cotswold garden with The Galloping Gardener . The Stone House is a 2 1/2 acre privately owned garden on heavy acid clay. It is located in the small and very picturesque village of Wyck...
The Biting Wires
Thursday July 08, 2010 |
I have taken the details from my friend Marsia's blog . Marsia had also published a report on this conference, which took place in Budapest in September 2009. My own paper on "High-status Industries in the Capital and Royal Cities of the New Kingdom" is...
Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK
OSGEO | Tuesday July 06, 2010 |
A couple of weeks ago was the OSGIS 2010 conference at the Centre for Geospatial Sciences at the University of Nottingham. This was expanded on the previous year’s event- it was spread over 2 days with workshops on the first day and the conference on...
Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology
Monday July 05, 2010 |
The Northern Trench has been machined open tday as well and by Wednesday a team of students and volunteers will work with Dr Gill Hey of Oxford Archaeology to unravel the mysteries of the Neolithic cursus. Meanwhile, Paul Booth, also of Oxford Archaeology,...
Discovering Dorchester through Archaeology
Friday July 02, 2010 |
Exciting times as we remove the backfill from the end of last season and reveal the geotextile laid down to protect the excavation from its long winter's nap. It was exciting to be standing once more just above the Roman street! Sunday morning, the students...
OA - Ubuntu
General | Thursday July 01, 2010 |
At the end of last year I tried to encourage the use of OpenStreetMap within Launchpad rather than the existing Google Maps; there was a bug and a blueprint for people to comment on and I hoped that we might see Free Software embrace Free Data. ...
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Wordy Wednesday | Wednesday June 23, 2010 |
Kiftsgate Court, Gloucestershire. A pool is the eye of the garden in whose candid depths is mirrored its advancing grace. -Louise Bebe Wilder
Wisteria and Cow Parsley
Wordy Wednesday | Wednesday June 23, 2010 |
Kiftsgate Court, Gloucestershire. A pool is the eye of the garden in whose candid depths is mirrored its advancing grace. -Louise Bebe Wilder
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