What is a Digital Signal?????

A digital signal is a binary coded pulse that represents pictures, data, sound, and is a computer or communication system.

An analog signal is a continuously varying system. How does an analog signal become a digital signal?????

• A Digitizer changes analog signals into digital or electronic signals. This was first developed by RAND Corporation in 1964.

To convert speech a microphone is used to break speech into voltages and the digitzer converts voltages into digital code-creating words on a computer screen.

Binary code is mathematical, a series of 0s and 1s and is considered universal.

Conficker Worm, the Worst Computer Plague Since The Slammer January 2003

The new digital plague a worm named "Conficker" infected computers and is the worst since the "Slammer" of January 2003.

Conficker Worm or Downadup Worm:

• guesses network passwords
• guesses passwords for handheld gadgets like USB keys
• as many as 9 million computers have been infected
• unifed infected computers are called botnets
• the botnets accept programming instructions from a clandestine master

Individuals that own or operate the computers may not be aware there is a problem. The botnets are not always detected.

9 million computers? That is a lot of equipment to replace.

W.D. Snodgrass, 1926-2009: Pulitzer Winning Poet and International Society of Poets Seminar Host 2008

I was nominated for Poet of the Year 2008 by the International Society of Poets. The Las Vegas Convention was very inspiring. Poets from all over the world attended.

I had the honor of attending W.D. Snodgrass, Pulitzer Prize Winners Poets seminar. He was 83 when he died last week.

His Pulitzer Prize is from his first book "Heart's Needle" in 1960. W.D. Snodgrass also was a professor at several universities, and like myself has two master's degrees.

W.D. Snodgrass, thank you for sharing your work, secrets of the craft, and time with aspiring poets like myself.

Tres

Bush and His Father's People, Obama and Clinton's People

Once in an interview with Larry King Live, the host made a joke that Bill Clinton would be the closes  thing we would get to a Black-American President. Most of Barack Obama's appointees come from the former Clinton Administration. I guess the thing that was closes is the thing most supportive. Bill Clinton did not look like he took the comment seriously.

Now we can stop looking like hipocrits to South Africa. We boycotted them and distroyed the economy because of the racial issues. They had a Black President before we did.

Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocesan Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Events

The 15th Annual Archdiocesan Martin Luther King, Jr. prayer breakfast will be held at:

• Verbum Dei High School, 11100 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California
• Monday, January 19 at 8 am
• Keynote speaker will be Dr. Robert A. Hurteau, Director of LMU's Center for Religion and Spirituality
• Theme- "Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On, Not A Day Off."
• Tickets $20
• Tickets abailable from Al Wilson at (310) 559-7159

A Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Memorial Mass will be celebrated at:

• Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral 
• Monday, January 19 at 3:30pm
• Sponsor: the Ladies and Knights of Peter Claver

All are invited to attend!!!!!

If Israel is a Country than it is Borders not Boundaries

The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution for "immediate durable and fully respected cease-fire" in the Gaza Strip for the Israeli forces.

For a full article on the subject from a Pulitzer Citizen Journalist Second Place Award Winner go to: http://writingsofafricanamericans.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/if-israel-is-a-country-it-is-borders-not-boundaries