It had to happen

Well I'm definitely not going bother with 64-bit processors now - an Israeli compnay has apparently produced a protoype of an optical processor and a Japanese research team have built a controlled quantum gate. Assuming this isn't another cold fusion brouhaha, silicon could be as obsolete as valves before too long.

Trying to get my mum on LJ

I've invited my mother to join LJ by sending her a code, but when she goes to the URL, the user name always comes up as "solri" and she can't get rid of it. Any LJ gurus out there know what the problem is?