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[/mediaSamsung pushed a new ROM to my new Galaxy Note 3 this afternoon, and fingers crossed there are no similar iBugs. It went surprising quickly and rebooted fine. But... my Lenovo A3000 Tab is certainly not as stable as it was before last month's update, though it's still quite usable. There does seem to be another Lenny update waiting, but I was put off approving it by a the backup warning - which maybe I should ignore, and just do it!

Ah! Thing on Beeb radio last night which recounted how Francois Englert the Belgian "discoverer" of the HB is being lauded in Belgium, with little or no mention of Seignior Heegs! It confirmed what I thought - the theories were sort of independently arrived at - and also pointed out that... umm... goodness, were they reading bedlington.co.uk theory of when the time is ripe things happen whatever? Or did the Beeb lady arrive at this theory independently?

Yet another cold case solved on bedlington.co.uk! I think we probably need a new forum for confessions. Maybe we could enlist some well-past-their-prime actors to moderate it?

My grandfather thought he'd once met Heisenberg - but he could never be certain about this. The old ones are always the best!

Probably only in The Journal! Correct me if I'm wrong but as I remember it he didn't "developed the theory with Francois Englert of Belgium". I think these were independent proposals for more or less the same thing - as happens so many times when the time is right. We all know about Charles Darwin but can anyone remember who Alfred Russel Wallace was? Anyway... the Higgs Boson only exists as a statistical probability - we can't be 100% sure it exists. Lots of people seem to be convinced by the current odds; but if you'd spent going on for four billion pounds over several decades - and dug up two country's landscape - you'd be under a tiny bit of pressure to come up with some sort of result. Will there be any practical benefit to this spend? Always difficult to say, but I think in the short to medium term we'd have been much wiser to put all those people and massive resources to work developing methods to control nuclear fusion. Not that we aren't spending heavily on that already of course... http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-23408073 If that one even puts us on the start of the path to pulling off practical controlled fusion, the engineers, construction workers, and even the tea ladies, all deserve a Nobel Prizes! And finally: Did you know that you can put your home computer(s) to work to help CERN? http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/ When I last looked the Russians were well ahead, and UK home computers hadn't yet managed a prediction of the 3:30 @ Epsom!

Not THE Laura Cantrell at lauracantrell.com perchance? People who like Kitty Wells liked.. ??

Yes, indeed. This wasn't a problem because we didn't have H & S in those days - then we had something called common sense!

I will have you know that some of my best friends these days are fully paid-up SECs - the ones I small-trade with in Stirfry Wokland on Alibaba.com (a devilishly clever Chinese joke in itself)! Anyway, come the Euro-gestappo I'm planning to use the well proven Chinese tolerance defence. Like those jolly decent long-nosed capitalist Brits you can crack a joke about (and with) them without inviting mass hysteria, or worse: a death sentence doled out by an old geezer in a tea towel. There's still Guardinistas to reckon with of course, but they have no mass to their hysteria. On the other hand I'd imagine that it's a criminal offence to possess a German copy of MK in Greater Euroland, so I'm sticking to my English language - and thus partially sanitised - copy, danke mein herr.

The fact that we consistently buy more from them than they buy from us more or less guarantees this. All the politico's scare stories of jobs depending on EU membership are red-herrings. The only job losses will be in the political classes! Was there any noticeable increase in employment when we signed up? You'd be forgiven for believing the reverse, and that it helped fuel inflation. When we unwind the euro-legislation we will be free to produce what world markets want, and not what Brussels says we must offer them. We'll be free to conclude trade agreements on terms which suit us. If EU countries continue to demand this or that made to Euro regulation 3649/B2 then we can still oblige them, but they'll need to continue to pay for this privilege, and we will be free to supply other countries who don't want to pay for Brussels red tape. Unlike little Norway they won't be able to bully us into paying huge fees simply to be able to trade with them. If they do try this on they will loose, because they need us more than we need them! The sad fact though is that Cameron is entirely the wrong person to do our negotiating. They know he's a closet europhile and that he's simply going through the motions - he'll try to pass off a political bodge as a triumph. It's only if we field a negotiating team that has no idealogical hang-ups, and that is quite prepared to walk away, that we'll get a trading deal with the EU that is worth having.

Goodness! We actually agree on something?! Except The Guardian being the fount of all wisdom - of course. I have a near-pristine copy of TLRB somewhere too; brought back by evil, exploitative, British hand, from the den of the slitty-eyed commie, Peking. (Sorry Guardian readers: Beijing). I also have a MK - though I bet different paragraphs are highlighted. Sadly lacking are any of the works of Uncle Joe. Must include such an acquisition in my next five year plan!

I believe I heard this document described by a climate-change "scientist" as unreadable. By which he meant unreadable to climate-change "scientists". I'm sick of hearing climate is more than x years! OK, let's set a date when the whole game will be up. A date when the funding and junketing has to end. I suspect there will always be an aberration - and an ensuing cogent explanation - for why nature isn't even remotely following the computer models. Rember that "hockey-stick" curve prediction when things would all suddenly shoot North? (Because a gentle linear rise wouldn't have been much good to the climate-change industry.) An alternative definition: Climate is what we feel it SHOULD be - Weather is what you EXPERIENCE in the real world. Meanwhile.. roll out another bottle of bubbly, the great climate change junket can be made to last at least another decade. Did I mention we "scientists" need even more funding? ----------------------------------- Some reality here: There appears to be a minor point of inflection occurring in the decade or so's global cooling; that cooling which the IPCC junketeers have now been forced to acknowledge. They will surely latch on to this as a sign of a resumption in warming "just as predicted". But, once we are past this record weak solar maximum, you don't need an international bean-feast, or a hundred million pound budget, to predict what is going to happen running up to 2020? Graphic source: http://www.space.com...ak-is-weak.html

Veee a'v vays of making you theenk little Englander! Don't you just like the "any other characteristics of a similar nature", and "subjecting it to false charges." Who will be the judge of this? Oh yes, the people in power with a need to retain that power. Is this preparation for the shortly-to-be-swelled UKIP contingent in the EU parliament? We can't have Rumpy being asked awkward, ridiculing, questions - like who actually elected him! ------------------------------------------ Q: Why can't I get the b in brackets? A: A b followed immediately by a ) translates into a smiley. Work-arounds: use a different sort of bracket > } ] OR a different serialisation set A B C; x y z.; 1 2 3 OR - and probably easier - simply add spaces ( a ) ( b )... ; underscores (_a_) (_b_)... ; dot(s) (a.) (b.)... etc.

Bread and Circuses! As always you get the government you deserve - and it sort of looks like the country deserves Miliband & Balls! Listening to Any Questions last night the argument was dominated by Miliband's so called fuel price cap. It's the only idea he has had so far and it amounts to £120 reduction in fuel bills over 20 months. Woweee we are all gonna be rich under Red ED! The practical effect of course will be negative. It will reduce investment and competition, and after the 20 months the bills will rise even more than they would have otherwise. But Ed thinks that his elector's time-horizon is less than two years, and wants it all forgotten about as soon as possible after the election. At least the Tories election bribes are generally before elections, and they don't directly steal other people's money to make them! However, I for one would rather see a no-agenda Red Ed in power than a hidden agenda Cameron. I will never forgive him for his secret attack on marriage or his two-faced attitude on Europe. We'd be better off with incompetent clowns like M & B than someone at the helm who is secretly undermining our country.

First we have Barroso lecturing Cameron, now Van Rompuy is at it: Surely he must be thinking about all the lucrative trade deals that we miss out on worldwide because of all the strings that Brussels attaches to everything we do? Actually, he can see what's coming at the Euro elections: Cameron's double-dealing on the EU is going to be shown up for the sham it is, and after the 2014 European elections the UK is going to be represented in Europe by a party that truly reflects public opinion. They don't like democracy, full stop; nasty thing which can derail gravy trains, and carefully hatched conspiracies in smoke-filled rooms. http://blogs.telegra...sident-barroso/ And.. where the UK goes others will surely follow, tottering the whole shaky edifice. So... expect the whole raft of tired old ideas to be floated out again in defence of "the European ideal". When they get to the one about guaranteeing peace in Europe we'll know they've reached the bottom of the barrel.

I shall study it just to please you Maggie - only providing it wasn't authored by Polly Toynbee.

Yup, join the left-wing opinion formers who really run our mad society - whilst blaming all wrongs on "big business" (which doesn't actually have any sort of a vote - except with its feet) - and who grudgingly trouser all the benefits that capitalism generates. Don't do what I do - do what I tell you to do, in The Guardian. Essential reading for the more intelligent delusionals; so probs doesn't include our Ian then?

Ask a church official and the answer could be the famous Mr God! The precise answer would be easy to find: look in the church records and find out who was the incumbent in 1835 or thereabouts. Ah, someone just sent me: A strong connection with our little furry friends there I think - or at least his sons had. I knew that all along - of course! So we know who was instrumental in the re-building, but who was the first occupier of the rebuild? I have that name bouncing around in my head and it will come to me. Campbell... ... hey I bet if you do a search on that bedlington.co.uk site you'll find out!

The origin Vicarage - was what is now known as The East Wing - goes way way back to the origins of the St Cuthberts, though it has been completely rebuilt the odd time or two. The main Vicarage (nearest the church) is relatively modern, and dates from the mid nineteenth century. The West Wing was built with the proceeds of the Glebe Lands when they were sold for coal mining for the then astronomical sum of about £2000. And yes, it was built for the vicar! See this thread: http://www.bedlingto...ch/page__st__20 One of the most amusing stories was from the time when the then vicar refused to quit when ordered to and held out for many years enjoying "the living", whilst his rival was installed at The Towers just down Church Lane. The full story is told in at least one of Evan Martin's books, and I've seen a Church pamphlet also telling this tale. Surnames of modern vicars - who have been in 20th century residence - include Purvis, Osgathorpe, and Goldie. The much respected Dr. John Brown married Eileen Purvis, and so was no stranger to the vicarage in his younger days.

Nope, I flunked the flying-saucer handling test - somewhere near the Market Place! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/521441.stm

Damn - must get that 'L' key fixed Adam! Happy birthday Ma.c!

Ah, yes: https://maps.google....t=h&mra=ls&z=17 I remember it well. The near exact spot where I almost ended up in a crumpled mass of metal some time circa 1972. The only time I momentarily lost control of an aircraft at raa..ther low-level, but even now hesitate to tell the tale...! :D The incident had nothing to do with Flodden Field as such, it just happened to be an awkward rise in quite the wrong place. I wonder if that burn to the North West is where the Scots pikemen got bogged down - which is reported to have determine the battle (and the history of England/Scotland)? BTW you can zoom in to road level from that link, if you place the little mannie first.

It's around that time we introduce a new forum on a subject of interest. Your proposals please? I think one on Astronomy (in Hobbies & Interests) will run as there seems to be a fair bit of interest amongst members, but maybe you can think of something better?

OK then I'm just running (free edition) Malwarebytes on my lappy right now after upgrading to the latest version of the database. I haven't run it for a good while; probably three or four months. Let's see how many instances of "obvious scam" it goes in for? I did run it on a friends machine only a few weeks ago and it picked up a tiny handful of certainly genuine problems on that - this friend is a known virus magnet! On the Avast front it's probably in learning mode on emails. I don't actually use it for scanning email myself as we have on on-server stuff, but I've never seen Avast report a false positive, and we run it here on several machines. I have seen it pick up genuine infections that both NAV and McAfee have missed though. As for slowing machines down, then you surely must be talking about NAV! Anyway you must give any AV a reasonable shot at doing all the initial housekeeping before declaring it a dodo. Will screen-shot the results as soon as the respective scans are finished.

First impressions on Note 3, Galaxy Gear, and Note 10.1 (2014 edition): The Note 3 looks another successful product, and with an amazing 3GB of RAM and a 2.3GH/z CPU should fly. They've put a lot of thought into the presentation too, and the textured leather back with stitching is a big differentiator from monolithic slabs with rounded corners. The Gear looks real cool and the price tag of $299 should translate into something between £200 and £249 (with VAT). A claimed 25 hour battery life is a lot better than the 10 hours that was floated (to draw the critics). It will surely sell as it has enough functionality to justify the price. Interesting though that the Samsung presentation made no mention of health and body monitoring functions - again a red-herring from Samsung internal sources. It's a partner for the Note 3 with a promise of very early compatibility with the Note 2, but no mention of earlier devices. Whether it is going to have any functionality with non-Samsung droids is still an open question. The Note 10.1 (2014 edition) is basically a scaled up Note 3, and doesn't particularly interest me in this form factor. Amazingly slim and far more powerful, it has to be a big worry for Apple and their already rapidly declining 9.7" iPad market.