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Tuesday, 09 September 2003

We Won Vietnam

John O’Sullivan argues that we won Vietnam: it’s now capitalist, and by fighting therein we manged to stave off Communist socialism in much of the rest of Asia. Indeed, Gorbachev once pointed out that Singapore (a single city) exported more than the entire Soviet Union (the largest state in the world)!

Anniversary of the First Actual Bug

According to the US Naval Historical Centre (Go Navy!), he first computer bug was logged on September 9, 1945 at 15:45: Moth found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: First actual case of bug being found. Note that the term bug pre-dates computers by quite awhil.

Charles Bronson, RIP

Paul Greenberg reflects on the life & times of Charles Bronson.


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