In Pakistan, infancy seems to have lost its innocence. A nine month old has been booked on an attempted murder charge. Apparently, the infant was around when his family threw bricks at the police and this, according to the police, amounted to attempted murder. So the police took him in custody, fingerprinted him and brought him to the court. A case of innocence lost in nonsense.
"The IBM mainframe is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The first System 360 mainframe was unveiled on 7 April 1964 and its arrival marked a break with all general purpose computers that came before." The article in BBC goes on to say
The machines have a legacy seen on many modern keyboards, he said. The "escape" was a common way to exit from a menu system on a mainframe and the "SysRq" key on some keyboards also dates from that era of monolithic computing. "If you were using a terminal-based system, 'System Request' let you interrupt what you were doing and run another job," he said. "But I'm not sure it's ever had a use in Windows."
Former US president George Bush (the junior one) is opening an exhibition of his paintings. From the few pictures that I have seen in the BBC site, they seem good and a few people have given their guarded appreciation. Looking at the past, it seems unbelievable that Bush has done something that is being appreciated by others. Apparently, there is a gem (not a very expensive one, but a gem anyway) in this rock too.
I have seen flying fishes during some of my journeys on water. They are definitely not an uncommon site and if you keep looking at the water from your vessel for a few minutes, you would definitely catch the sight of a couple of them. A TV crew in Japan has captured footage of a fish flying for 45 seconds. It was flying parallel to a ferry that was travelling at 30 Kmph. The article says "There are some 40 species of "flying fish" in the family known as Exocoetidae. The animals are found worldwide in warmer waters".
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