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According to wired.com they have categorised the 10 worst software bugs in History. I quiet like their explanation of how the word “bug” became the defacto description of a flaw in a computer program. I’m not sure if it’s true or not but I like it none the less.

a club that began in 1947 when engineers found a moth in Panel F, Relay #70 of the Harvard Mark 1 system. The computer was running a test of its multiplier and adder when the engineers noticed something was wrong. The moth was trapped, removed and taped into the computer’s logbook with the words: “first actual case of a bug being found.

Certain bugs come to mind as being particulary bad, the therac-25 X-ray machince that gave six people lethal doses of radiation is a pretty good reason not to ever get x-rayed again. :p

Read the article on wired.com

It’s worth a few minutes of your day.

I’m sure some people have seen this before but I was looking at the ISS five year aniversary pictures on nasa.gov. It’s pretty spooky to look at the photo again.

Be warned that the photo is 2.2MB and is probably not suitable for any but the most dedicated on dial-up.
You can see the plumes of smoke trailing off miles into the distance.