The UK government apologises for its treatment of Alan Turing.
A pointless feel-good exercise? Too little too late? A fitting tribute to a national hero? I don’t know. Maybe all of the above, but on the whole I’m happy with it. Turing damn well deserves some recognition for being one of the founding fathers of computer science, not to mention his cracking of the Enigma ciphers.
For the last week, I’ve been taking advantage of the nice weather to get some more exercise done. On Tuesday I decided to get off the SkyTrain at Science World station and use my own two feet to get the rest of the way home. I’d done that just once before, taking a direct route through Yaletown.
OS X Mail’s spam filter is really very, very good at its job. Every once in a while, though, something slips through the cracks. Like this gem right here.
The newspapers in my neck of the woods are all atwitter over the fact that visible minorities outnumber Caucasians in Vancouver as of the 2006 census. No big surprise. The only part that makes me go “huh” is that South Asians are apparently the largest minority group and not Chinese.
…is what the graffiti said, on the side of the freight train I passed on the West Coast Express this evening.
Awesome. Just think of the sights it’s seen! Welcome to VANCOUVER.BC.2007
Aye, that be soundin’ about right, methinks. But the HTML code provided by yon landlubbers was faulty, and it took a bit o’ fiddlin’ afore I could make presentable.
Well, this is kind of creepy.
I know, life is full of weird coincidences. I don’t really want to know the odds of having a convicted gay-basher out there with the same name as me. It’s just a bit disturbing, is all I mean to say.