I have to begin by professing my ignorance her. Prior to today i had never heard of Ada Lovelace. It is very gratifying then for those associated with her, with Babbage's early computer and in the realm of mathematics to have her celebrated. It is always a pleasure to learn about someone new and of the contribution to society/knowledge they have made that one might never otherwise have known of. For this Google should be saluted, it is something they do well.
However, - it is emphatically NOT Ada Lovelace's 197th birthday today As Google so inappropriately claims! Not to put too fine or indelicate a point in it, the lady is dead. She has passed on is no longer with us. She is NOT celebrating her 197th birthday! one imagines if she were she would be accompanied by someone from the Guinness book of records, historians clamouring for interviews and medical students/Doctors trying to assess the reason of such longevity.
Today is the anniversary of Ada Lovelace's birth - the 197th anniversary at that. There can be no objection to celebrating such a thing, least of all from me, just so long as we remember it's NOT her birthday but the anniversary of her birth.
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