Cowburn

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.

Well, a slightly less code-minded blog entry now just noting the hugely momentous occasion that is the arrival of my very own ElePHPant. For those not in the know, he's quite simply a plush toy version of the infamous PHP elephant logo. For tonnes of fun pics, you can take a look at ElePHPant on Flickr.

Here's a quick pic of my own ElePHPant reading a French book printed in the 1940s:

Right now, he's sitting atop the screen on my Macbook Pro, making sure I don't make any spelling mistakes.

P.S. Whilst we're on the not-so-serious side of posting, I finally upgraded to OS X 10.5 (Leopard) this week. I spent the best part of a day backing up essential files and documents only to have the installation process go super smooth without so much as a hiccup. Thanks Apple!