BLOG Number 100

 

I am surprisingly writing a lot more in the number of articles I have done so far than I ever expected before I could do in my condition.

100! 

That is the number given to me by Google about this story on its website that I am writing now.  I just do not believe that I have written so many articles in such a short period of time on so many different topics.  

Imagine what I will be writing with respect to my next 100 articles! 

I just saw this in the Windsor Star, right at the bottom of an article, about the Rotary Club Art show this weekend in Windsor: 

"More than 20,000 visitors attended over the weekend, said Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) president Michael Drake. The show is a major fundraiser for the club. 

“We had about 15,000 visitors on Saturday,” Drake said, adding the final numbers weren’t in yet for Sunday’s attendance. 

“It’s a very good year for us,” he said. “Last year the numbers for Saturday were slightly higher, probably because the weather was a little bit better, but it’s still a good number for our long-term trend.”  (Julie Kotsis, Windsor Star, June  6, 2016)  

 

Also the Low/Martin Mansion tour seems to have had an extraordinary turn-out. I was told that their event had to stay open an extra 3 hours because people kept coming by! 

Just one final note from a story I saw that deals with technology.   

It is truly remarkable for what was accomplished during WW II that seems to have been virtually unknown until now. It is really interesting to know what lies ahead as far as technological advances go. 

 

"Hitler's coding machine meets its nemesis

(AFP Charles Coultas June 4, 2016) 

© Provided by AFP A handout photograph released by the National Museum of Computing on May 29, 2016 shows the teleprinter part of a Lorenz cipher machine. The machine Hitler used to send coded messages to his generals met the supercomputer that revealed its secrets on Friday, watched on by veteran operatives whose painstaking work helped bring World War II to an end. 

Scientists at Bletchley Park in southern England, the WWII code breaking headquarters, fired up the valves, whirring wheels and spinning tors of the two machines to recreate how German military chiefs sent secret messages and how they were deciphered. 

Hitler's Lorenz machine boasted 1.6 million billion possible coding combinations thanks to a series of twelve rotors, a million times more complex than the more feted Enigma machine. 

Through luck and the ingenuity of engineer Tommy Flowers, scientists were able to deduce how the machine operated and then build a machine to work out the settings of Lorenz's rotors. 

"Colossus" is regarded as the world's first programmable, electronic digital computer, but received little attention as the project was kept secret for decades, depriving those responsible of due accolades."  

On this story's subject, if you would like a great movie to watch, "Imitation Game" would be a top recommendation. It is based on the story of Alan Turing, who decrypted German intelligence codes for the British government during WW II. Fantastic acting by Benedict Cumberbatch and quite a gripping film from start to finish.

You can get info about it here:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/