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Dina St Johnston founder of Vaughan (VPS) UK’s 1st independent software house in 1959. She wrote programmes for some of UK’s earliest computers, incl software for British Rail & “left a lasting contribution to both the art & science of programming” d. 2007 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_S

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Gair y Dydd: aur geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?a. Ar y diwrnod hwn yn 1865 y darganfuwyd aur ym Mwynfeydd aur Clogau, ger Dolgellau. #cymraeg

Word of the Day: aur 'gold': geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?a. On this day in 1865 gold was discovered at Clogau, near Dolgellau. #welsh

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Today's #Covid19Cymru stats show 3 deaths reported in the past 24 hours.That's under the average, and coming after the weekend (when there's often a bounce), that is relatively good news..
Total now 1510. Average (past week) 4.14

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Gair y Dydd: naturiaethwr geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?n – ar y diwrnod hwn yn 1709 y bu farw Edward Lhuyd, y naturiaethwr y mae
@CymdEdwardLlwyd
wedi ei henwi ar ei ôl. #Cymraeg

Word of the Day: naturiaethwr 'a naturalist': geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?n – on this day in 1709 Edward Lhuyd died, the #Welsh naturalist, linguist, and antiquarian who was one of the first to draw attention to the similarity between the Celtic languages.

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RT @schock
This is huge. The ACM is calling for an "immediate suspension of the current and future private and governmental use" of Facial Recognition technologies, for "both technical and ethical reasons."

acm.org/binaries/content/asset

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Someone wrote to ask about my plans for the fall, and it took me a moment to realize they meant "autumn", and not "the collapse."

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Well it was going happen eventually...

My dual boot laptop is now no more. Not the hardware. A freak lockup insisted (I'll avoid the long story) that I say 'Farewell' to Microsoft, (Thanks Bill Gates it was fun waiting in the car park of the Venetian resort in LV in 1999. Not!)

Yes, there are a handful of Windows programs that I have to run on Linux for various reasons, but I've finally made the switch, the jump, and I won't be looking back.

Please support Linux app developers as much as you can. A few euros here, a few dollars there. Also Wikimedia.

Anything else? Yes I need to sort out the issue of no access to the BIOS!

23rd June 2016

To mark a calamitous anniversary...

Toot Redux (first published 29th December 2016)

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@gemlog
I neither said he was smart nor stupid. I commented on his character.

He will undoubtedly have huge teams of people analysing the effect of everything he says and does. His future actions will be adjusted to maximise his appeal to those demographics.

As you said, it is all about enhancing Trump's position, he doesn't believe in anything. Ideals are anathema to Trump.

@Fritillaria2

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If the #Covid19Cymru figures are correct today, it's truly remarkable. I confess I am doubting them though. Statistically this is improbable. We know that yesterday there were problems with the testing figures, but no problems have been reported for death figures, and no problems reported today for either; in fact, the implication is that it's back to normal.
1 death today, after 1 yesterday. Total now 1477.
Another caveat: Sunday's figures are often low.
My model's prediction for tomorrow: 7.0

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"Whatever you think about Donald Trump, he is at least open about his racism, lust for state violence and commitment to white supremacy."
scheerpost.com/2020/06/15/chri

Toot Redux (first published 26th April 3018)

Boris Johnson, a classicist I'm told, should pick up the phone and let Kyriakos Mitsotakis know that the Marbles will be in Athens before 31st December 2020.

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There was just one death recorded today in the #Covid19Cymru official figures. Although the testing figures come with a warning on the PHW web site, there is no reason to suspect the death figures are incorrect. Along with yesterday's below average figure, and bearing in mind that Saturday figures are normally around about the average (no weekend effect until Sunday), this is an extremely encouraging result.

My model predicts 2.7 for tomorrow.

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