##1409

been quite a while, a long long while, since i post postings falling into this category...

go check out this link: http://www71.wolframalpha.com/

what it does:

... long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable
by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and WolframAlpha uses
its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the
answer...

you do not have to be a rocket scientist to figure how to use this and i did a quick check on my birth date (hello, i ain't a narcissist hor..) and here's what it says...

wow! john gardner died the day i was born. pity it wasn't the same john gardner who is notably famed for reviving ian fleming's 007 - james bond novels. but was the john gardner who was also a writer, a novelist to be more specific. equally cool.