The show is called History: Cold Case. One of the better episodes is on YouTube here: The Bodies in the Well. You can find the other episodes using the Related Videos links.

The premise is that every time someone in the UK wants to build a new shopping center, housing development, etc., they need to do an archeological survey. Sometimes these surveys turn up human remains. Due to lack of funding, these sites are excavated, cataloged, put in storage, and forgotten. Enter Sue Black, forensic anthropologist, and her team of professors, postdocs, and grad students at the Univ. of Dundee. They investigate archaeological remains as though they were contemporary crime scenes. Dun-dun-dunnnh!

If you’re looking for something to blog about besides shitty infighting and institutionalized stupidity, I’d love to get your view on these program(me)s. I’m skeptical of their methods, but I lack the expertise to judge.

I set up a birthday notification system for my company’s network which required a modicum of monitoring, because one of our employees was born on February 29. Normally this was celebrated on March 1, but in election years I got to send out a company-wide message saying something like “X is celebrating his 8th birthday!”

Finding out who gets jokes like that can be very useful information.

-Scott Simmons, now, sadly, a greying 2B years of age.