28 Jun 06 Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was a force to be reckoned with, and she certainly helped the road of computer science and led the way for women in this field. Her most well-known invention was the creation of the compiler, that intermediate program that translates English instructions into “computerese”, one of the foundations of modern computing.
Another of her claims to fame was the discover of the first computer “bug”, and this was literally true when she came upon a moth trapped within the relay points of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. Her team successfully “debugged” the computer and a new term was born.
14 Jun 06 Alberto
Alberto was the first named storm of the 2006 hurricane season. It didn’t quite reach hurricane status (over 73mph) before it made landfall on the north-western gulf coast of Florida, but it dumped plenty of rain.
The rain was much-needed in Florida. Like most of these tropical storms it covered a wide area, and this photo was taken in Mount Pleasant, SC, whilst the center of the storm was still almost 400 miles away in Florida.
Fortunately, by the time the storm got to the lowcountry, much of its strength had died away, but we still had tornado warnings, and reports of a few actual tornadoes, although no damage was reported.
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