Tom Goskar – Archaeologist

Research-led 3D scanning, surface enhancement, audio restoration and AI for heritage

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  • Adventures in Chile, Part 4: Exploring Santiago and Valparaíso

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    We have been in Santiago for four days now, and are getting to know the 'Centro' area a little. We have also taken an excursion to the city of Valparaíso and I have had my first glimpse of the Pacific Ocean. I have also got a head cold, which is rather annoying when the temperatures…

  • Adventures in Chile, Part 3: Santiago

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    Today I made my longest journey so far, travelling the 10,000+ kilometres to Santiago in Chile. Apart from learning just how hard it can be to try and sleep on a plane, I also learned that the in-flight entertainment system runs on Linux. It rebooted randomly and the plane was full of penguin logos which…

  • Adventures in Chile, Part 2: London

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    I’m sitting with a beer in the Tin Goose, a flight-side pub at Heathrow Terminal 5. It’s a relief to be checked in and for a chance to relax before 7200 miles of flying. We stayed overnight in London with my parents-in-law, and it snowed for much of this morning. We will be going from…

  • Adventures in Chile, Part 1

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    Today, Tehmina and I have embarked upon the first leg of our journey to Chile. I’ve never been to North or South America before, nor have I ever done any travel blogging. So today marks the beginning of a whole new journey for me. Tehmina is giving a paper in Santiago at the World of…

  • Photo workflows, online backup, metadata and memories

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    Over the last few years the way I take and manage photos has changed. I used to take photos on a compact digital camera, and every time I came back from an event or holiday I would transfer them to iPhoto on my Mac. Those photos I liked best I would upload to my Flickr…

  • Resolving a fault on a BT phone line and the BT brick wall

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    For the last few weeks, there has been intermittent noise on our BT phone line. At best, this makes telephone conversations difficult, but worse of all, it plays havoc with our ADSL router. For the last week the noise has been rather persistent, and our router is constantly dropping the connection, and reconnecting at much…

  • Open Shed – a new hackspace in Penzance

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    [Update May 2014] Sadly Open Shed closed in May 2014 due to the inability to grow membership enough to meet costs.   For the last six weeks I have been doing something a little bit different. From a friend, I heard that a small group of people were setting up a hackspace to provide a place…

  • If This Then That

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  • Photos from the iPhone 4S camera

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    Yesterday, I bought my first iPhone. I’ve wanted one since they were first launched in 2007, so I feel very lucky to finally have one. Here are some photos taken with the iPhone 4S camera on a walk along Regent’s Canal on a sunny afternoon in London. Many were taken underneath bridges to test the…

  • Another new way to connect a Mac to a monitor, another adapter for the collection

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    According to Apple news website Mac Rumors, Apple’s forthcoming range of hardware include monitors that connect via the recently-introduced Thunderbolt connector. When I gave a lecture earlier this year in Oxford, the venue technician asked if I had a Mac and produced a box of adapters. “Mac? One of these should fit it”. There were…