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This blog has moved .... you're still getting the old stuff

I've had many problems in the last few months publishing to this blog - which is created using Google's Blogger application and then FTP'd to my domain name from within Blogger - and this is at least part of the excuse for so few posts recently (the main part of the excuse being that I haven't written any other ones of course). The web is full of threads from people upset that FTP no longer seems to work...

Comparing apples with round, green, tasty, slightly acid things - November 1, 2007

I read today that the price of white truffles, a delicacy from northern italy, has leapt to 7 a gram. One commentator noted it was like "grating a gold bar over your papardelle." That's quite a lovely image - although I'm guessing a standard grater wouldn't quite cut it so to speak. It's also wrong. There are 31.1 grammes in a troy ounce (a troy ounce is a little more than a standard ounce. My screen shows gold trading at $791 per ounce and the pound is presently $2.07. That makes an..
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