audentes fortuna iuvat

oh good lord – so to speak

Atheists in Australia are under cyber attack now, because thats the Christian thing to do. The websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention were knocked offline in a major cyber attack yesterday afternoon.

More to be read in the Sydney Morning Herald….

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Strap yourself in kids, we’re geeking out.

The possibility of a time travelling particle is currently doing the rounds of Geekendom. The Higgs Boson particle, theorised to exist for only a tiny micro-moment at the start of the universe is used to explain how the universe has as much mass as it does. Personally I put it down to late night snacking and catching taxis, but thats me.

Scientists, who clearly watch too much Stargate SG1, Atlantis and now Universe, are trying to recreate it – but every time they do, the incredibly expensive, complicated and delicate pieces of equipment they are using keep breaking. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN in, well give it so large, France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, has fallen over (not literally) a couple of times when they have tried this.

The result is. some pretty wild theories are starting to roll around.

“A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one, like a time traveler who goes back in time to kill his grandfather.”

While I cant comment on the physics*, I can say that a/ it sounds pretty far fetched, 2/ I suspect these guys are spending too much time alone or at Star Trek Conventions and iii/ it also sounds really cool – where can I get me one.

*and therefor should probably shut up on the whole thing

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You know who you are and what I mean. Take this as a lesson you sily people.

“Let this be a lesson to all the broken-hearted geeks out there. A 38-year-old Ohio man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he meant to install on the computer of a woman he’d had a relationship with ended up infecting computers at a children’s hospital.

Spyware was sent to the woman’s Yahoo e-mail address in the hope it would be used to monitor what his former girlfriend was doing on her PC. But instead, she opened the spyware on a computer in the hospital’s pediatric cardiac surgery department.

The spyware sent more than 1,000 screen captures via e-mail, including details of medical procedures, diagnostic notes and other confidential information relating to 62 patients. The man will pay $33,000 to the hospital for damages and faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.”

Thanks to Slashdot for this.

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I just opened my own blog on a computer running IE 6 and discovered that even the most basic, default template, gets screwed up by this elderly browser.

Basically its your own fault for using it, or working for an organisation that does. So you can either upgrade, deal, or look at the blog on your iPhone, where it works perfectly.

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