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12 th November 2010

12 th November 2010. Yesterday was (also) World Usability Day Theme for 2010: Communication [http://www.worldusabilityday.org/]. Events [1].

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12 th November 2010

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  1. 12th November 2010 Yesterday was (also) World Usability Day Theme for 2010: Communication [http://www.worldusabilityday.org/] Mic Porter

  2. Events [1] 1847 – (Sir)James Simpson, is the first physician, to use chloroform as an anaesthetic. In 1853 John Snow is using it on Queen Victoria during the birth of Prince Leopold (George Duncan Albert); a “bleeder” (1853 –1884). Assisted childbirth becomes popular but Chloroform is soon phased out due to a tendency to cause, often fatal, cardiac arrhythmia (analogous to “sudden sniffer’s death”) 1912 – The bodies of Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912) , Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates & Edgar Evans are discovered (8 months after their death from starvation, exhaustion, the freezing cold and (?) depression). Mic Porter

  3. Events [2] 1933 – Hugh Gray walking back from Church sees, and photographs, Nessie, for the first time. 1969 – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh first tells of the massacre of My Lai Village (16/03/1968) in which 347 (US) and 400+ (other sources) are killed. Images at: http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_vietnam_mylai.html 1981 – Space Shuttle Columbia (Mission STS-2) is the first manned spacecraft to be launched into space twice. Columbia is destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 towards the end of its 28th flight. Mic Porter

  4. Events [3] 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, (b.1943) a Polish Shipyard electrician and Solidarity leader, is released from prison after eleven months. Wins the 1983 the Nobel Peace Prizeand is Polish president from 1990 -95. 1990 – (Sir) Tim [othy John] Berners-Lee, (b.1955) publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. Apologises for the unnecessary slashes BBC14/10/09. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8306631.stm.) 1998 – Vice President Al Gore (b.1948) signs the Kyoto Protocol. (Films his “An inconvenient Truth” presentation, released ‘06, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize))) 1998 – Daimler-Benz merge with Chrysler. Mic Porter

  5. Ins [1]… 1840 – Auguste Rodin, sculptor (d. 1917) 1842 – John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, and 1904 Nobel Prize for Physics winner (d. 1919). Explainer of the Blueness of the sky, discoverer of Argon &... 1886 – Ben Travers, playwright (farce) (d. 1980) 1928 – Bob Holness, TV Presenter and actor 1929 – Princess Grace of Monaco, American Actress (Grace Kelly) and Royalty by marriage. (d.1982) 1939 – Terry McDonald, footballer 1943 – Bjorn Waldegard, Swedish rally driver Mic Porter

  6. Ins [2]… 1945 – Tracy Kidder, American journalist & author. Pulitzer Prize winner (1981) for The Soul of a New Machine. This chronicles the experiences of an Skunkworks engineering team racing to design a next generation computer (Data Generals' Eclipse MV/8000) under a blistering schedule and tremendous pressure. 1945 – Neil [Percival] Young, Canadian singer & musician. 1962 – Mariella Frostrup, Norwegian, brought up in Co. Wicklow , now a journalist & presenter (radio and tv). Mic Porter

  7. Outs [1]… 1035 – Canute the Great (c40) (a natural death in Shaftesbury (Dorset) , not drowned, Harold succeeds. “Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey” The quote probably propaganda to show his wisdom (not arrogance) and, no doubt, helped by his support of the Church that could manipulate those that recorded and wrote the histories (which, generally, ignore his bigamy and responsibility for several expedient/political murders)! In 1017 he divided England into four super earldoms (Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria). In 1018 paid the last Danegeld of £82,000 ending the blackmail. Mic Porter

  8. Outs [2]… 1595 – John Hawkins (also Hawkyns), English shipbuilder, slave trader (?devisor of triangular trade) and treasurer of the Royal Navy (1577)(b. 1532) 2001 – Tony Miles, first English born chess Grandmaster player dies of heart complications from his diabetics (b. 1955). In 1980 he, most famously, wins (playing black) against reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov after using an opening that most of us would regard as “amateurish” or even “silly” but in his hand is simply an “extremely unorthodox opening”. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068157 Mic Porter

  9. A Charabanc on a modified chassis of a Cork build Model “T” at the Stradbally Steam Fair, August 2009. Mic Porter

  10. Family Ford were of the Irishdiaspora; emigrating at the height of the famine in 1847 Mic Porter

  11. (?)A pretty end - the Barrow bridge at Graiguenamanagh Mic Porter

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