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I’ve written a blog post over at IT PRO about Herman Hollerith, one of the founders of IBM and the man who pioneered modern data entry computing

Please take a look.

Coca Cola is DOS Compatible in Spain

Originally uploaded by Ewan Spence.

Just finished a Skype chat with Ewan Spence, who is over in Spain at a media conference. Our VoIP call was interrupted by Ewan cracking up, when he spotted this DOS reference on the bottle of Coke we was chugging.

Yes, it’s a geek joke – and it’s a funny one!

Ok, probably makes no difference to you, but I want one, and now I have one:

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In the last 45 years, every single England football manager (the national team that is), has won or drawn their first game in charge, including that waste of space Steve McLaren.

The only one that lost his first game in charge……….World Cup-winning England manager Alf Ramsey!

In case you haven’t seen any of the early unboxing or disassembly pics, here’s one of the better pics of Apple’s latest laptop stripped down to its component parts.

As you can see, it’s another example of industrial packaging done well, with the very thin casing of the MacBook Air heavily packed with kit, while the motherboard has been stripped back to the bare minimum.

I’ve just posted a new column over at IT PRO with my views and thoughts on today’s news that Microsoft has offered $44.6 billion in cash and shares for internet portal operator and advertising sales operation Yahoo.

Currently stuck in Portugal, so unable to do my usual commentary stuff for the TV news networks. Rather appalled at some of the dross I’ve been hearing on the UK stations thus far.