Test post because I upgraded WordPress, blah de blah.

Annoyingly, WPIDS now breaks WordPress; I suspect the problem is that we don't have the latest version of PHP.

Someone waffles about the DEEP HIDDUN MEANING of 42 in Douglas Adams' oeuvre. Stephen Fry gently mocking journalists *lust!*

A separate excerpt from the article: It shows that seeking numerical answers to questions of meaning is itself the problem. Digits, like a four and a two, can no more do it than a string of digits could represent the poetry of Shakespeare.

Funny, I'm sure I've seen websites with the poetry of Shakespeare on them. You know, like computers, which store information as oh I dunno A SERIES OF ONES AND ZEROES. :P

The joke, as I saw it, was not that computers can't understand 'meaning' in the fuzzily-defined sense that humans understand the word. (For one thing, Deep Thought's "You're not going to like it" puts the kibosh on that; Deep Thought is more intelligent, ie capable of understanding things, than its parents.) The joke was that computers answer precise questions, and this question was fuzzily defined. It's an elaborate "user error" joke about how even the people who built Thought didn't understand how it, well, thought. That's my take on it anyway. But that's not to say the choice of 42 wasn't a geeky in-joke of some kind; it probably was!

Deep Thought was probably a Mac.

However, that article does win extra marks for having the correct and definitive Arthur Dent and Marvin, not the stupid recent film. (Stephen Fry narration *lust!* etc etc.)

Speaking of DEEP HIDDUN MEANINGS, www.planetnarnia.com

[video] Chinese comics on show in UK (haven't watched, doubt there'll be anything objectionable)

[video] Gilbert and Sullivan revival. Patter song *lust!* Young ladies dressed as males *d'awww!*

Kashmir suspends stray dog cull

Rare pygmy hippos caught on film