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	<title>The e-Astronomer</title>
	
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	<description>The Universe, the Internet, and Academic Life</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Apple meta mania</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Warhol]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So there I was driving down University Ave, exploring Palo Alto, when I saw a line of young folk snaking round the corner. I thought I had discovered the downtown movie theatre. But no. It was the Apple Store. They were all desperate for their new 3G iPhones. Curious thing, the iPhone. Mostly I find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet and Sour, Nuclear Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Jodrell Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being stuck in the grim Californian sunshine I didn&#8217;t make it to the STFC Town meeting on the 8th. So I don&#8217;t have insightful analysis for you. Instead this is a kind of dummy post so other people can tell me what happened.
Following up links from Paul Crowther&#8217;s site, the press seem to think the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pale Face of Stanford</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GLAST]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Your correspondent is now in Silicon Valley. My tour of duty as Head of Physics is now over, and I am starting a year long sabbatical at SLAC. My main aim is to kick-start some collaborations with LSST folk, especially on the database side, but its also exciting to be here just after the launch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C-day Plus One</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[AstroGrid]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[STFC cuts]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Observatory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am in the very thick of the madding crowd : Heathrow Terminal Three, en route to San Francisco. Yesterday STFC Council met and finally sealed the fates of various projects (*). The outcome is described in a pdf file you can get here. STFC folk will brave up to the crowd and explain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dinosaurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Charles Manson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ken Pounds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Zelig]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Its a while since we did lookey-likeys. I will start with some self-mockery&#8230;. while applying for US J-visa, I dug out my 1974 passport. The photo is scary :

Charles Manson I think. As opposed to 1984, when I looked kinda punky :

I have also been packing away vinyl, and came across the first Pretenders album. [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Or is it Charles Manson ?</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Or is it Johnny Rotten ?</media:title>
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		<title>Galaxy Wide Telescope</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gravitational waves]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pulsars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My favourite bit from today&#8217;s Astronet sessions &#8230;  The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) guys say they will find  30,000 pulsars , and 1000 of these  will be millisecond pulsars. So we will have a network of these beasts spread through the Galaxy, and will know their frequencies and phases very accurately. Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liverpool Heroes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[astronet]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Barkla]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Beatles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Brahman]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Liverpool]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[X-rays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Six Thirty, Albert Dock, Liverpool. Woken up early, staring at the rain. Coldplay on the earphones. Somewhere within a few hundred metres of here there are several hundred more astronomers, scattered through space in other beds. In three hours those bodies will converge on one room. We are assembled together to produce a Roadmap for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to be cheerful, one, two, three.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[PPAN]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So the advisory panel reports have been released ; PPAN has responded; and Science Board has endorsed PPAN&#8217;s pronouncements. The final word is with Council on July 1st. The rankings have been nicely analysed by Stuart over at The Astronomy Blog. So where are we now ?
Wandering the halls of academe, and reading my inbox, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gamma Ray Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have never really seen the point of Twitter. (&#8221;I&#8217;m eating a sandwich&#8221;. &#8220;Now I&#8217;m putting the plate in the dishwasher&#8221;. ) Likewise, on that FaceBook &#8220;Current Status&#8221; thing, I just can&#8217;t resist the feeling that the only logical thing to type in is &#8220;On Facebook wasting time&#8221;.
But today I have really enjoyed a Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian Oil Scare</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy crisis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fusion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gazprom]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[oil price]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to oil-price.net today&#8217;s oil price is $132/barrel. However, the head of Russia&#8217;s Gazprom says that we will hit $250/barrel within a year and a half. This is reported in several regular newspapers such as the Guardian and Times Online and also in webby-papers such  as Buzzle. Surprisingly, the story doesn&#8217;t seem to be [...]]]></description>
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