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More pictures of Isaac can be found on flickr here. Other updates about him can be found here .

Cyndi and Isaac were released from the hospital on Saturday.  Sorry, we don't really have anything new to post yet; however, while we were in the hospital, Lydia was such a big girl.  She wanted to help out by holding Isaac.  That has continued even after we got back to the apartment.

Please note, I could only post this in one category at a time.  If you want to read the latest about Isaac, follow the links above.

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More pictures can be found on flickr here. Other updates can be found here .

Well, everyone I know has been waiting anctiously for this.  Instead of 11, our family now numbers 100 (0011 in base 2 = 3 in base 10 while 0100 in base 2 = 4 in base 10).

Isaac Ethan Maxson was born in Skopje, Macedonia around 9:30am (local time).  He weighed 3kg and about 500g more (the nurse said he weighed 3kg and ...umm...about 500g).  He was also 52cm long.  So, here it is in a table:

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In a follow-up to this set of posts on airline security, this is yet another reason why I want people to take a step back and think....

Remember the row about Google, China, and the US Government?  Well, it turns out that the "hackers" really didn't have to hack too hard to get in.  They just came in the back door.  The back door that our government made google install.

I like Bruce's conclusion:

The problem is that such control makes us all less safe. Whether the eavesdroppers are the good guys or the bad guys, these systems put us all at greater risk. Communications systems that have no inherent eavesdropping capabilities are more secure than systems with those capabilities built in. And it's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state.

This also illustrates why everyone should be encrypting their e-mail.  It is easily done with free software (free in both ways).  I'll be writing a follow-up HOWTO in the next few days about how you can do this.  In the meantime, you can find our public key here.

Image from stuckincustoms via flickr

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I saw the video embedded above linked on this article on Bruce Schneier's website.  I don't speak German, but from what I gather, the video shows a guy defeating a whole body scanner?  Sure, it shows his mobile phone, a wire he was wearing, as well as a knife....but what about the bomb making "stuff" he was wearing?  it didn't catch that at all.

For more articles I've written about this in the past, you can check them out.  No, this isn't just a knee-jerk reaction on my part.  Everyone needs to take a giant step back and actually think about stuff.

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