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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: 04/2011
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Friday, 29 April 2011. Stifado, Solar System, Silence. Stifado is a Greek dish consisting of stewed meat (usually rabbit or beef) and onions. It's been around a quuarter of a century since I last had any, so I've no idea how close my first attempt to make it was. The terrible photograph I took doesn't make it look too bad, but I was so hungry that I wasn't going to mess around taking more than one:. The Americans call this a Crock Pot (tm). My computer had started becoming unreliable, so I went shopping ...
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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: 05/2010
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Monday, 31 May 2010. Today is the Late May Bank Holiday. For many people this means spending the day in traffic jams trying to get home from a rainy long weekend somewhere nice, or rather somewhere that would have been nice if it wasn't for the rain and the other hoards of people. And I ordered a vocal score from Amazon which has just arrived. Eventually the question is settled in the time-honoured fashion by a wager. The men agree to let the old man set up an experiment. This involves them prete...One o...
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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: 09/2010
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Sunday, 5 September 2010. View from the Sofa. This weekend has been lazier than most - I have hardly moved from my sofa, except for trips to the kitchen to top up on lemon infused soda water, and of course to go to bed. I'm not ill, and nor have I broken any bones. After a busy week at work and without any childcare duties (Helena stayed at home as she wasn't feeling well), it's great to spend a couple of days doing very little. Solving all the Sudokus. Running my Life from my Netbook. Are a way of speci...
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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: 12/2010
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010. Twas in the Winter Sold. Whatever your religious beliefs, whether you have any, or whether you even celebrate this particular festival, the one thing that we all have to put up with at this time of year is the marketing. Although we think of the commercialisation of the Season as something relatively recent, it's being going on for a long time. One of the best examples of this is the White Christmas. Are you sitting comfortably? Well, I'll still begin. If you're going to advert...
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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: Twas in the Winter Sold
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Tuesday, 28 December 2010. Twas in the Winter Sold. Whatever your religious beliefs, whether you have any, or whether you even celebrate this particular festival, the one thing that we all have to put up with at this time of year is the marketing. Although we think of the commercialisation of the Season as something relatively recent, it's being going on for a long time. One of the best examples of this is the White Christmas. Are you sitting comfortably? Well, I'll still begin. If you're going to advert...
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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: 08/2010
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Sunday, 22 August 2010. You don't have to get very far into one of these films to realise that plausibility wasn't given the highest priority by the moviemakers, but even so, I was disturbed by the ending of Thunderball. If you haven't seen the film, you might not want to read any further, as I'm about to reveal the ending. I mean it. I'm going to tell you what happens at the end. You would never guess. YET MORE SPOILER SPACE. Bond finds the bombs and saves the world. Three would be a crowd. Winner must ...
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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: 07/2010
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Thursday, 29 July 2010. Are We Gluing Coffee Pots? And Lots of Randomness. My latest parcel of purchases from Greece arrived the other day. This consisted of:. Two novels by Giannis Maris. He was Greece's answer to Agatha Christie, writing stories prolifically in the 50's, 60's and 70's. His detective is Captain Bekas. I've never ever listened to an audiobook, so this is an experiment. The book itself is apparently a classic of early 20th Century Greek literature. I have no idea about. It is a site that ...
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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: Strange (and Strangely Familiar) New Worlds
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Sunday, 17 October 2010. Strange (and Strangely Familiar) New Worlds. You may have seen in the news that the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot has died, aged 85. Most people (myself included) don't know much about the mathematical significance of his work, but are familiar with the pretty pictures derived from the Mandelbrot Set. Talking about familiar worlds, I've been watching the cult 70's British TV show Blake's Seven. The story is about a group of rebels who are fighting the evil Earth Federation....
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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: Stifado, Solar System, Silence
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Friday, 29 April 2011. Stifado, Solar System, Silence. Stifado is a Greek dish consisting of stewed meat (usually rabbit or beef) and onions. It's been around a quuarter of a century since I last had any, so I've no idea how close my first attempt to make it was. The terrible photograph I took doesn't make it look too bad, but I was so hungry that I wasn't going to mess around taking more than one:. The Americans call this a Crock Pot (tm). My computer had started becoming unreliable, so I went shopping ...
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BRIAN Ο ΒΡΕΤΑΝΟΣ: 10/2010
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Sunday, 17 October 2010. Strange (and Strangely Familiar) New Worlds. You may have seen in the news that the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot has died, aged 85. Most people (myself included) don't know much about the mathematical significance of his work, but are familiar with the pretty pictures derived from the Mandelbrot Set. Talking about familiar worlds, I've been watching the cult 70's British TV show Blake's Seven. The story is about a group of rebels who are fighting the evil Earth Federation....
