Welcome to America: Thoughts on Immigration
Image from the Armenian Genocide | Wikipedia I am here in America today as a result of the Armenian Genocide, which took place mainly from 1915 to 1917. That moment in history is not widely known or remembered, but it was real, and impacted millions of people. I am also here because relatives immigrated from […]
What Doesn’t Matter Does Matter
Life is full of paradoxes, no? For instance, the simultaneous existence of ultimate and relative truth. Ultimately, we are all equal, yet in practice we are not treated as equals. This paradox has me thinking that what doesn’t matter does matter. Here’s why: We are all equal regardless of the color of our skin. Yet […]
_Escaped_Fragment_
An _escaped_fragment_ is a work around that developers who build their websites in Javascript use to help SEO pros (that’d be me) create URLs that are indexable by Google. I could ask: why bother? Why not use some other language that already makes indexing URLs easy? But I’ve learned, at my advanced age and through […]