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• 09:23 RT @stephenfry: Happy birthday Alan Turing! b 23/6/1912. There'll be a party at Bletchley for you, I’m told. #bpark #
• 10:14 Maybe I'll finally be an adult when I stop playing dress-up. Oh wait... #
• 10:50 @i_clavdivs - If growing up = no costumes I'm just a big kid :P #
• 11:52 RT @MargoEve: I reckon this might make my day a bit more shiny. www.talklikeabrowncoatday.com/ <- c'mon, you saw it coming #firefly #
• 14:18 I don't speak French but I do speak pattern: tinyurl.com/379xf3f . Bookmarking #sewing #fashion #patterns #

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What do Elizabethan fencing treatises have to do with programming? Rather a lot, surprisingly - or not, as the discipline of of naming and organizing knowledge to make it easier to understand and use wasn't the invention of Victorian-age librarians.

I admit a particular affection for the link above (swords AND software!) but it's just an extension of my nascent interest in information organization/retrieval beyond the web/digital realm. I've been working with the latter for years but only of late have I started investigating the history of how people get data and organize it into something meaningful/useful. My latest reading on this is Alex Wright's Glut which demonstrates that there have always been ways and means, even when they aren't obvious to modern observers.

Food for thought...