The Nomad and the Olive Branch

The World is full of interesting people, of many shapes, sizes, cultures, religions, races, and personalities. The many possibilities within each and more categories that define us as human beings multiplied together only allude to the many combinations that spring out of this, thus giving us an impression of how different people tend to be, and how we as people try to be ourselves in society. However, this is not the case today. While variation tends to be more pronounced within societies than among societies when it comes to genetics and appearance, among many other genotypic traits ( 1 ), there also seems to be a control beyond the grasp of genetic factors that limits the variation of such personas. In English, this means that your genes really don't have any control over who you are more than other things. The majority of such factors tend to be social, or, for lack of a more sensical term, sociological, meaning that they are controlled not by one's genetic disposition or i...

As a regular computer user, I've come across different virus-scanning software programs that helped me keep my computer and my data safe. Among them were McAfee Virusscan 5, Norton AV, Norman AV (I thought they were the same), and McAfee Virus-scan 8 and 10. I thought I was in for the best security protection when Windows Live OneCare came out, and decided to subscribe to its services in order to give it a shot. I was like, "Hey, it's coming from the guys who made Windows, so I'm sure they know whatever hits it and whatnot." Boy, was I proven wrong. Let's just take a look at what this software really is ( 1 ). Overall, it appears to be a copy of McAfee Security Suite, which comes loaded with an anti-virus, a firewall, an anti-spyware module, spamkiller, etc. Windows Live OneCare, however, comes with an anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, backup utility, disk cleanup, disk defragmenter, an anti-phishing filter, and... that's about it. The beta version itsel...

The title of this post barely describes the despair and distrust that many Palestinians now have for the main political parties, Hamas and Fatah. This wave of conflict in Gaza that has just fired up was started by Fatah's targeting of Hamas members and politicians, along with their compliance and collaboration with Israeli soldiers in kidnapping such politicians and other innocent people that may have entered in the way of these soldiers. But now, Israel seems to only watch the conflagration that is firing up in both Gaza and the West Bank, definitely benefitting from this new discord and discontent. Personally, I am disappointed and disgusted that both parties sink to such a new low, and it looks like that they're not going to recover. Hamas responds to the attack on PM Haniya by killing Fatah members in the street and throwing them off the tops of buildings, while Fatah joins this bashfest and does the same. Fatah and Hamas make it worse by fighting each other in the open, an...