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Seen on a company chat group. Names changed to protect the pathetic:

Person A: freedom is choise,,
06:37 PM - Jun 14 - reply

person b: nice.. " choise " -- got your glasses on person a? just kiddin..
06:39 PM - Jun 14 - reply

Person A: choice.. don't be mean!
06:46 PM - Jun 14 - reply

person b: huh?! whose mean?
10:01 PM - Jun 14 - reply

First rule of Pendant Club; You're an idiot.

I never knew this:

5.5 What is the Asimov-Clarke treaty?

The Asimov-Clarke Treaty of Park Avenue, put together as Asimov and Clarke
were travelling down Park Avenue in New York while sharing a cab ride,
stated that Asimov was required to insist that Arthur C. Clarke was the
best science fiction writer in the world (reserving second best for
himself), while Clarke was required to insist that Isaac Asimov was the
best science writer in the world (reserving second best for himself).
Thus the dedication in Clarke's book Report on Planet Three reads "In
accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best
science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction
writer".

-- Isaac Asimov FAQ, via PC Authority.

Meh.

Apparently today is Ada Lovelace Day. I guess this makes it an ideal time to remember some of the women who have made enormous contributions to the IT industry.

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper immediately springs to mind as inventor of the compiler and the COBOL programming language. Rear Admiral Hopper was one of the original programmer of the Harvard Mark I in 1944. She continued contributing to the industry until her death in 1992 at the age of 85.

Another of my heroines of the computing era is Jeri Ellsworth a young and brilliant hardware hacker who created, amongst other things, the C-One reconfigurable computer and the C64 DTV TV Game. LifeHacker recently ran a series which included Jeri Ellsworth as "MacGyver of the day". Go read it and be amazed.