Cinco de Mayo

It’s not Mexican Independence Day. It’s the commemoration of the Battle of Puebla during which a smaller bunch of Mexican soldiers killed a larger bunch of French soldiers who had been sent to Mexico by Napoleon III (rumored to have really hated the USA) to nation build the country with a French accent. It’s doubtful that the remnants of the Mexican army actually celebrated with Cuervo Gold after the battle. About a year, and some 30,000 French troops later, Mexico did fall under French domination and Nappy’s relative, Archduke Maximilian of Austria, was appointed ruler of Mexico. Some five years later, with political and military assistance from the gringos to the North, all that remained of the French was Maximilian’s bullet riddled vest, currently on display in the museum at Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City.

The tie-in with technology? A USB 2.0 version of DOS XX has been proposed to eliminate the bottleneck but there’s little hope of it actually ever being produced.