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		<title>Guest Post : Life After STFC ?</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/guest-post-life-after-stfc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the ESA/Aurora/Bepi debate is getting too tense. Lets move on. As mentioned more than once by The Telescoping Coles, the really interesting thing to emerge after the STFC press release was the statement by the Lord High Drayson that HMG recognised that perhaps there are structural tensions in the whole STFC setup, and that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1226&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WISE is Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herschel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infrared]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its the year of infra-red astronomy &#8230; UKIRT is still going strong (for now&#8230;), but now we have Herschel, VISTA, and &#8230; WISE.
WISE launched successfully yesterday from Vandenberg. The PV phase is expected to be very short &#8211; an amazing one month &#8211; followed by a seven month sky survey. My IPAC chums tell me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1222&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The axeman cometh</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/the-axeman-cometh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dear John letters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science Programme]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just a letter from STFC warning that I may or may not have a Dear John letter coming. Council will meet to finalise the current science prioritisation process tomorrow (Tuesday 15th). Between 11am and 2pm on Wednesday I will get a phone call advising me of any implications for my project. (In my case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1214&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VISTA is Go</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/vista-is-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ESO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infrared astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UKIDSS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[VISTA, our shiny new IR survey telescope, is ready for rock and roll. Check out the ESO press release . There some lervely pictures, including a zoomable mosaic of the Galactic Centre.
I am excited (and relieved) both scientifically and in project terms. Data is being processed by a combined Cambridge-Edinburgh team. The data will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1207&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post : Two Modest Proposals*</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/guest-post-two-modest-proposals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Academia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[citations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lottery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swift]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My UKIDSS co-conspirator Steve Warren has provided me with a nice wee guest post. In fact, as a special extra, its really two posts in one. Both parts are provocative proposals. So &#8230;. how about another poll ?
Steve on :
My first modest proposal is to introduce &#8216;ranked-normalised&#8217; citations. Straight citations are good for people who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1161&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Loop Chaos</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/time-loop-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andyxl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dotastronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leiden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Swindon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Observatory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New experience this morning. I talked at a conference by remote video link. Its the first time I&#8217;ve given a talk sitting on my bed. Appropriately the conference in question was .Astronomy-2009, held in Leiden. (Thats &#8220;dot-astronomy&#8221;.) I was sorry not to be there, as I have never been to Leiden, it looks like a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1152&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hubble versus Peach</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/hubble-versus-peach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damian Peach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hubble Space Telescope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jupiter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucky Imaging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Szymanek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Moore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend I talked at a special meeting of the British Astronomical Association, celebrating 75 years since Patrick Moore joined. It was a fun day. I&#8217;d never been to the Royal Institution before. It has nice looking but horribly uncomfortable seats, and is very atmospheric. Paul Murdin and myself were the token professionals in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1136&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Translation madness</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/translation-madness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came back from Tim Hawarden&#8217;s funeral ceremony. Rather splendid affair. Funny stories from his brother and songs from Zululand and Hawaii. The coffin had a wee telescope on. Lots of people. Plenty of tears but even more laughter which was right for Tim.
Meanwhile&#8230; just noticed something rather odd. I recently installed Google Toolbar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1124&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Hawarden</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/tim-hawarden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cocal cola]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We got some bad news a few days back &#8211; Tim Hawarden died, rather suddenly. This is a real loss to UK astronomy, as well as to ROE and to UKIRT. There is an obituary on the ROE web page, very nicely put together by Ian Robson. The family requested flowers from family only, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1112&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Time Waster Top Ten</title>
		<link>http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/sunday-time-waster-top-ten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was trying to decide whether to start learning the piano or finish that paper. So of course actually I dipped into Facebook and wasted some time. How else will I know what my kids are doing ? When I got there I found that ex-AstroGridder John Taylor had posted a link to a web [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=andyxl.wordpress.com&blog=640835&post=1095&subd=andyxl&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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