It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
(I don't actually look like this.)
If you like waffle, you could always try my other blog, A Fish, A Whistle, and Another Fish.
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This site best viewed using binoculars. (Or, if using Internet Explorer, a blindfold.)
It has always been a minor peeve of mine that so much attention is paid to Babbage and his difference engine. It is not, despite what you may have heard, the first computer; because it is not programmable in any meaningful sense of the word.
The real credit should go to Alan Turing. Maybe.