Significant Date

Today is 11/11/11 — a highly significant date if you believe in the power of numbers. A date that only happens one time per year. We were lucky enough to have been impacted with that significant date last year on 10-10-10 when Ella was born. Today all over the world people will be celebrating this date. For America it's Veterans Day. I happened to read this today and thought it was worth sharing. The First World War ground to a halt at 11 a.m. local time on the 11th of November 1918. This, then, will be the first time the world has ever gathered to remember the fallen at a time when every last number on the clock — including the two-digit year — is 11. 

It’s also a date to celebrate, at least for programmers who think in binary code (Binary is a way of representing numbers or letters in the form of 1's and 0's and is the lowest language of all computers.) Some have even dubbed  today as "Nerd New Year". Doug has much more understanding of the binary numbers than I do. There have been many binary dates in both 2010 and 2011. Ella's birthday being one.


CNN World News reported that South Korean hospitals were being flooded with women requesting a C-section on this special date. And while American weddings aren't very common on a Friday, I wonder how many will actually take place?  Here in Holland Friday weddings are very common, so today is no exception. In fact our neighbor's son is getting married today. The house has been decorated and since early this morning people have slowly arrived to get ready.

The hair person arrived too.