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Your humble Snob is a man of the finer things in life - decent vino, Wagner, the two seater, fine cheroots from Cuba, white truffle risotto and Sky Plus. However, there is a side to me that enjoys the grubby side of life. I titter away like a schoolboy reading the Viz. I occasionally have a few too many vinos and end up in one of Edinburgh's lapdancing establishments. They are not quite the American model where you can have a decent steak whilst a lady gyrates away but they are ok for a half-sozzled advocate with a couple of notes in his wallet.
Quiz question: Do the opening three words remind you of anyone?
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Bryan Appleyard’s mind is somewhere out in the cosmos and he’s found the answer – there is no answer. Pity Stephen Hawking took so long to get round to it – he could have just asked Bryan if he’d had a mind to:
Anyway, last night I was authoritatively informed that, as a result of studying the mathematics of Kurt Godel, Hawking no longer believes in the possibility of a final Theory of Everything. Godel proved the incompletability of any arithmetical system. I and many others could never understand how, if Godel was right - and nobody said he was wrong - any final theory was possible. Hawking and his followers used to pour scorn on such doubts. Now, it seems, he agrees.
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As someone, sigh, who is having a running battle with a rogue server who likes to do things which get me blocked by people, this piece by Dizzy explains a lot:
All of these problem stems from one thing, and one thing only. The Windows security model. Pretty much by default under Windows XP everyone has full read, write and execute to the entire system by design. The result is that not particularly sophisticated websites can effectively execute code on client machine that is malicious… All roads lead to Microsoft when it comes to prevalence of malware that creates drone networks of compromised machines.
So what must we do – go to a Mac? Adopt Vista?
More of life’s problems here …