"A9, Amazon's much discussed skunk works search project goes live today."

I indulge in a bit of ego-surfing and from the Alexa Web Search - Results for link:smeed.org/ I checked out the Amiga.org link only to discover that several years ago one of my old students - Scott Radcliffe - nominated me for the The 2002 Computer Hall of Fame in the Amiga.org - News | Re: Vote JAY MINER into computer Hall of Fame thread. Here's what Scott had to say:

"I voted also.

In the box at the bottom, there is an option to nominate someone,

everyone, vote for my former lecturer Duncan Smeed, as creator of the bios for the old Dragon computer systems.

To top it all off, he had a run in with Mr Gates, reason enough to vote for him.

Info at: http://www.banavage.com/History/DragonData.htm

and

http://www.dragondata.co.uk/ (goto hardware then technical articles)"

I would have been mortally embarrassed had Scott's nomination bumped me into the list since _everyone_ else was far worthier than I. Fortunately I didn't even make the poll result list ;-). Not surprisingly Jay Miner was voted #1!

Update: I'd overlooked the visitors suggestions for the answer: "Write in your own nomination" list which had me as #9, 8 places ahead of Bill Gates B-)!!

"Digital Cameras embed several types of data inside the images you take, including camera manufacturer, date the picture was taken, and aperture, shutter speed, and focal length settings. These are called EXIF tags and are also called "metadata." Here's how to take advantage of these tags to embed your own copyright notice."...

One of these days I may have a use for this. Hence the 'bookmark'.

"BBC TWO tells the story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years, in a major new drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

The story begins in 1963, as the young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday with a party at his home in St Albans, unaware that his life is about to change dramatically and leave only his brilliant intellect undamaged"...

Inspiring drama and one that I predict will have people reaching for their unread copy of A Brief History of Time:

"Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time may have sold nine million copies world wide, but it is also supposed to have earned the dubious honour of being the world's most unread book."

"After investigating the instruction sets used by 64-bit chips from AMD and Intel, an industry analyst has concluded that Intel reverse-engineered the AMD64 instruction set to create its own 64-bit microprocessor architecture."...