"Father of ASCII" dies

I was just looking through my Wikipedia watchlist and saw that someone had made an edit changing a link to "Robert Bemer" to one to "Bob Bemer", prompting me to have another look at this article.

There, I noticed that it gave the dates "8 February 1920–24 June 2004"… putting his death just a day ago. He died at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, after a battle with cancer, according to the article.

This is the man often credited as "The Father of ASCII" and inventor of the ESCape character. According to the German article, he was a Latter-day Saint ("Mormon").

Leap seconds

No time to read the articles fully just now (just skimmed a couple of them) so I'll just collect the links here. Apparently, the gist is that leap seconds my be removed, causing civil time to go out of synch with the earth's rotation slowly.

• Steve Allen on leap seconds
• Markus Kuhn on leap seconds
• Metrologia on the history of the leap second
• Archives of the LEAPSEC mailing list
• Proceedings of the ITU colloquium on UTC

Links courtesy of dotaturls.

Strange language of football results

Out of curiosity, I had a look at the football results in German and saw this for the game Portugal vs. England that took place on Thursday:

2:2 n.V. (1:1, 0:1), 6:5 i.E.

Now what the heck does that mean?

I assume the first bit is "half-time score was 0:1; score are 90 minutes was 1:1; score after extra time ["nach Verlängerung"] was 2:2" and that the extra time was necessary because the score was tied after the second half-time.

But what is the 6:5 and what does "i.E." mean?