With all my ranting lately about character encoding and programming you’d think all the joy had drained out of my life. Well, here’s a bit of joy and humor that fits squarely in my present consumption of all things programmatical:

Answers for a Canadian 6th-Grader is 82 year-old Bob Bemer’s response to a young boy’s questions about the technologies he’s responsible for: namely character encoding in computers. His style is cute and wholesome and he’s my kind of computer geek. He’s got a no-nonsense, hardcore approach to tech and a keen understanding of the soft tissue (humans) that beat on them. I love reading his "Computer History Vignettes". It’s amazing to me that everything we know of relating to digital computers has been created in one man’s lifetime.