Category Archives: General

Hacking the Papal Election – great article that examines the Papal Election process. In this day and age I’d hope that the faith of the cardinals would discourage cheating but you never know!
There is one way of hacking the process..

The process is vulnerable to other forms of attack. Like Alexander VI Borgia’s tactic of wholesale bribery and assassination of opponents…

Proinnsias has a good replacement logo for the ailing Rover motor company.
By chance, I read this morning an article interviewing Jon Moulton who wanted to buy Rover a few years back.. “If only they’d sold Rover to me …” Love this quote:

Asked whether MG Rover might have had more success if Moulton had taken over the company, Daniel Ward, a spokesman for the car maker, said simply: “He didn’t.”

The paper has more here and here, including the revelation that the Chinese have a claim to the Rover name!

I’m reading the Wikipedia page on Pope John Paul II. It’s fascinating, especially the descriptions of his efforts to bring peace between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
Now to read about that Great Schism.

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Pope John Paul II has died in Rome aged 84.

Great story about the man, Stanislav Petrov, who didn’t press the button. *phew*

I’m off coffee. I was never a big drinker, enjoying a cup with my breakfast and perhaps with my lunch later but I’ve gone cold turkey.
I’m off it two weeks now! 3 days into it I got an almost-unbearable headache for an hour but it disappeared and that’s it!
It’s still tempting however.. going into a cafe last weekend was a trial!
Thankfully I can think and work without extra stimulus.