Thursday, October 13, 2011

Dennis Ritchie dies & Anchored boat towed by whales

I've come across two interesting articles this morning.
Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer.
Read more here.
This is a nice tribute in SmallDog's blog. It is the first article after the introduction to the newsletter.

and something strange...
Glenn Wilson and Nerida Higgins were enjoying a quiet evening moored in their yacht off Australia's Queensland coast when the whale got their boat's anchor rope in its mouth and dragged them out to sea. 
Read more and see the video HERE.

One more cup of coffee and then it's time to do some boat work.

So it goes...