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Just letting you know that there won't be any updates (not that you were expecting any) until probably September! I'm off on holiday with the family next week and then shipping out to France for 9 weeks for the Bourges excavation. If you need anything, email me as I can check those probably once a week.
Today marks an important (yet in the long run, likely a trivial) point in my life so far. To some it's just another Thursday in May but today I got the result from my Archaeology degree which I started way back in October 2002. So in the end I've come out of it with a third, which in the scale of things isn't what I was hoping for but it certainly doesn't come as a surprise after the trials and tribulations throughout the time between 2002 and today. It means that I can now be addressed as Peter Cowburn MA (hons) (meaning Master of Arts with Honours). I can now join the many people around the world who also have thirds, including brainiac Carol Vorderman. 
Howdyroos, I'm just dropping by with a quick catch-up in the form of a sorry excuse. I've not updated this blog for such a hugely long time (even in non-interweb time!) and for those visiting (all one of you) to be greeted with an old "newest" post, I apologise.
So, where've I been? To put things simply (only because I can't be bothered writing very much) I've been finishing my final year at univsersity, hurrah! All exams have finished and I waved farewell to the lovely Edinburgh for the final time (for a while, perhaps) and have moved back home to sunny England. The immediate plans are simple: chill for a while! Perhaps there'll also be some more regular blog updating or at least finishing off some posts that have been in the draft queue for a while.
I'll keep you posted.
Today, a new article was approved over on TalkPHP entitled "Simple AJAX with JQuery" (read article). If you're looking for a nice basic introduction to using jQuery to make AJAX calls, then head on over there. Here are some thoughts on it.
Yesterday I went on a really nice trip to Stirling Castle and like every good tourist, I took some snaps to remember the day by. The weather was very changeable, ranging from gusting winds and rain to bright sunshine, which made taking good snaps difficult so I resorted to the quick and easy option -- set camera to automatic mode and deal with proper exposures, changing compositions, etc in the digital darkroom. I shoot RAW at all times, there really is no other option!
So to cut down on the babble, I simply figured it would be nice to show a quick sample of the sheer awesomeness that is Lightroom with a before/after pic.
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