60 years of bugs… and many more to come
On this day in history… at 3:45 PM on September 9, 1945, Grace Murray Hopper found and logged the first computer bug: a moth found in a relay of the Harvard Mark II. Hooray!
Archive for September 2005
Elektro returns home
The Mansfield Memorial Museum in Mansfield, Ohio will welcome the return of Elektro, the Westinghouse mechanical man, on September 14, 2005. Elektro will be part of their new exhibit, “Westinghouse Mechanical Men” through December 31, 2006. Make the trip to see it, if you can!
Cybercops are Computer Illiterate
Did you know that alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths because they store browser and profile-related data differently than MSIE?
The shock and horror!
If these so-called cybercops were at all sophisticated in the support and administration of computer systems, they’d know that finding “alternative” browser data is pretty darn easy. In fact I’d say that locating Mozilla browser data is by far easier than finding MSIE data. In addition, finding documentation on Mozilla and its file structure is pretty easy if you know how to use a search engine.
Well, I guess we all have yet another reason to switch from IE to another browser! Hooray!
It’s about time!
Isn’t it about time that I finally finish this site? I thought so too. So I finally sat down and did it. Hooray for me! And hooray for you, because now you can enjoy all its goodness. Go look at the photo gallery and my pictures from the SPAM Museum!
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Good Reading
Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites by Christopher Schmitt, Kimberly Blessing, et al.
Upcoming Events
- SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, March 7-11, 2008
- WebVisions 2008 in Portland, Oregon, May 22-23, 2008
- Voices that Matter: Web Design in Nashville, Tennesee, June 10-13, 2008 (Get $200 off with code WDDSPKR!)
- An Event Apart Boston, June 23-24, 2008 (Get $50 off with code AEABLESS!)
- Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing at Keystone Resort, Colorado, October 1-4, 2008
Latest Links
- Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study This article mentions that Web companies are stepping forward to say that they would want to hire grads of Web Science programs.
- Duran Duran » A Blog from Nick The Durans have a record player in their dressing room, and they listen to a different album before each show. Nick ends by suggesting what I always tell people... go back and listen to your vinyl. You'll appreciate your music so much more...
- Science Has Become the New Frontier for Title Nine Under Title IX, US government agencies have set up programs to look for sexual discrimination at universities receiving federal grants... in science.
- Zimbabwe introduces $100 billion banknotes Roughly equal to one US dollar, they're not even enough to buy a loaf of bread. Inflation in Zimbabwe is officially 2,200,000% but other estimates put it at 9,030,000%.
- Women break to front of tech It's nice to see that a national newspaper with fairly broad readership has this type of coverage, and that it doesn't paint women in tech as the odd ducks.