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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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Working From Home. Why Not?

2020 is the year that COVID-19 made home-working a must.
With the relentless advance of Coronavirus and the Daily Express asserting this is the 'End of The World' predicted by Nostradamus (as it does regularly as clockwork about anything from the latest Near Earth Object to God's face being seen in tub of lard), governments across the globe are asking as many of us as possible to work from home. As I touched on in a previous blog, I've had plenty of experience of this since I first tried it in the early 1990's. In fact for the best part of a ... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, March 15, 2020 2:49:00 PM Categories: Philosophy Tech
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My Top 10 Youtube Channels

I don't watch TV - here's what I do watch.
.demo:after content: ''; clear: both; visibility: hidden; img float: left; margin-right: 10px; padding-right: 10px; p overflow: hidden; margin-left: 10px; I haven't been a regular TV viewer since the last century! Working from home in the mid 1990's I always had a computer in my front room anyway, so I transitioned from 'lean back' to 'lean forward' media very early on and soon found it quite odd that folk would sit on a sofa having inane programming firehosed at them while... read more
 
Posted by Steve Gould Sunday, March 8, 2020 11:00:00 AM
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