Now, I've been trying to find a way to squeeze in this blog entry since I started this blog, but due to the requirement that we only write about something pertaining to our class, I've had trouble getting a chance. I wanted to explain my blog title (you know, all the rediculous 1s and 0s? What's up with that!?) so that it has some meaning to readers.
      The string of 1s and 0s are part of a code or number system known as binary, the prefix bi- meaning 2. this means that it only uses 2 characters combined in different ways (0 and 1). Our number system, the decimal system uses 10 characters (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, but not 10, because 10 is a combination of 1 and 0 remember?)
       This is the tricky part. All systems of counting are based on place values (ones place, tens place, hundreds place, etc). Since decimal is base 10, that means that it follows the following pattern for place values:

Thousands place         Hundreds place       Tens place        Ones place
   10³ (1000)                  10² (100)              10¹ (10)              10° (1)

Each place value increases by one exponent to raise its quantity.
      
The same is true for binary. Since binary is base 2, it follows the following pattern:

Eights place                Fours place             Twos place       Ones place
   2³ (8)                           2² (4)                     2¹ (2)                2° (1)

      Now how does this apply? Take for example the number 1011. In the Eights place is a 1. So there you have 1x8=8. In the fours place is a 0. This means that 0x4=0 is represented by that place value. Next is a 1 in the twos place so that is 1x2=2. Finally in the ones place is a 1, so that is, of course, 1x1= 1. Now you add those together: 8+0+2+1=11, so 1011 translated into normal decimal is 11 (it's just a coincidence that it only has 1s).

Next, to put this into use for the blog title. Computers store binary numbers in 8 character sequences such as 
00000000 or 10011101. Therefore if you take the blog title (011011010111100101100010011011000110111101100111) and split it into 8 character sequences, you get the following:
    01101101
    01111001
    01100010
    01101100
    01101111
    01100111 
Now if you translate these into decimal you get:
    109
    121
    98
    108 
    111 
    103
Now these digits correspond to characters in what is called the ASCI system. Follow this link to view the chart. Each number corresponds to a character, so if you translate out all the numbers you get:
    m
    y
    b
    l
    o
    g

Thus, my blog title is the phrase "myblog" in binary code. Please respond if you have any questions, It's the first time I've tried to explain it in text, so if I didn't do it justice, I'd like to rectify it.