It's A Binary World 2.0

Insights on fatherhood, technology, culture, photography, and politics

Egypt, Israel, and Palestine

| February 14, 2011

With the current revolution in Egypt I’ve been hearing a lot of speculation on NPR’s Talk of the Nation about who will come to power when the current government falls.  There’s been a lot of talk about the consequences of a government run by The Muslim Brotherhood.  The fact is that some key figured in [...]

Review: Inglourious Basterds

| May 13, 2010

It’s been 65 years since World War II ended. We seem to be more obsessed with it than ever. There are two big reasons for this. First, WWII is the last war we unequivocally won and which had a clear, morally reprehensible enemy. Korea was a tie, Vietnam was a loss, and our only other [...]

My History with Browsers Part 1: A History Lesson of Sorts

| February 22, 2008

At first I used Internet Explorer because we had a free trial of MSN.  Then we switched to MCI, who used Netscape (although you could also use IE) and I mostly used Netscape.  I think this was around Netscape 4 or 5.  I really liked Netscape A LOT and used it almost to the exclusivity [...]

Godwin’s Law

| May 18, 2007

Yet another awesome xkcd comic:

Gotta use that extra encryption

| May 8, 2007

Another wonderful comic from xkcd:

Happy Bastille Day!

| July 14, 2006

To any French readers I may have out there, Happy Bastille Day!

The Constitution!

| February 22, 2006

The other day I decided to read the Constitution of the USA. I don’t know what compelled me to do this, other than the fact that I stumbled upon it online. I don’t have anything specific to say about it except that I’m amazed at how they thought of nearly every contingency. For example, the [...]

Shi’ites and Sunni & Protestants and Catholics

| December 11, 2005

For a while I kept wondering what the heck was going on in Iraq. Why were the Shi’ites and Sunni killing each other? Aren’t they both Muslim? What barbaric behaviour to kill your own compatriots, not because they are a different religion, but just a different sect! But then, one night as I lay awake [...]

In the front seat on the bus to heaven

| October 25, 2005

Rosa Parks died yesterday of natural causes. As everyone knows, she was one of the most influential and accidental icons of the United States Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. As she herself has told others, she never meant to actually stand up for civil rights. She had just finished a very long and tiring [...]