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Lockdown Cooking Tips

How to make things last when its hard to shop
Now I'm not claiming to be a whizz in the kitchen, but I've endured some difficult times in Spain that have forced me to acquire some culinary discipline. I lost a cushy job selling houses for a Spanish estate agent chain thanks to the 2008 crash, and, being unable to qualify for benefits here, money got very tight. For a few months I was almost living on air. During that time I learned some important lessons which are becoming useful and relevant again, now I'm virtual house-arrest in the ... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, April 5, 2020 8:16:00 AM Categories: Coronavirus Covid-19
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My Timemachine of Technology

How I've been lucky to live in a time of unparalleled technological change
I feel very fortunate to have been born when I did and to have observed the revolutionary change in technology that I have. Things whizz along so fast these days. My father woke me up in the middle of the night to watch man's first moon landing, but the rocket that took man to the moon only had a 16 bit processor and a tiny amount of memory by modern standards. These days we all have far more power in our mobile phones! It's all happened so blindingly quickly! In fact I feel very... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, March 29, 2020 5:57:00 PM Categories: Science Tech Technology
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The Thief of Time

You've no idea how long I put off writing this blog-post!
I remember the occasion that I learned the meaning of the word procrastination. It was 1974 and I was in my first computer class. Our teacher, a dear man called Stan Smith, who in a previous profession had been a scientist at Jodrell Bank, had taught us about loops and set us an exercise - to write a program that printed a phrase 10 times. That phrase was "Procrastination is the Thief of Time". Why he broke with the traditional convention in computer programming of having us print... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:46:00 PM Categories: Philosophy Politics Spain Thought
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