Tag Archives: techie
It’s Talk About Pirates Day
There’s been a ton of talk about piracy in the various message boards and twitter folks I chat with. Not about piracy on the high seas (though perhaps there’s a post about that sometime) but rather piracy of electronic media. … Continue reading
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Better Know a Techie: Eleanor Creesy
After getting home from work today I thought of a supplement to my previous post on Ada Lovelace. One of my all-time favorite series of fiction are Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series of novels, profiling the British naval officer Jack Aubrey … Continue reading
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Better Know a Techie: Lady Ada Lovelace (and Mrs. Publius)
Lady Ada Lovelace Today, March 24th, is Ada Lovelace Day, a day of international blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. The idea is for bloggers to profile inspiring women, dead or alive, in technological fields. It is … Continue reading
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Breaking Enigma
I mentioned in my into that I’m into history and I’m a software engineer. One can see the impact that computers had on World War II. One example of this is the breaking of the German Enigma code. This is … Continue reading
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