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CI's Joe Klein, talking 'bout IPv6 security ...

2009-07-27T10:58:00.000-04:00

Happy Flag Day

2009-06-14T20:41:00.000-04:00

Happy Memorial Day

2009-05-25T00:01:00.000-04:00

And as we all enjoy friends, family and food - take a moment to remember what has made all of this possible.

Just a quick, self-Happy-Birthday ... someone's blog is 5 today!

2009-05-07T07:47:00.001-04:00

It was 5 years ago today that I started this little blog, and while I have not been incredibly active (to say the least) this has been (and will continue to be!) quite an interesting experience.

I have met some great people solely due to this little adventure, and am better off for it.

(For a laugh - go see the first post @ May 7th, 2004 (and check out all the dead links from there - man, I wish sites did a better job kept their articles around - slackers!)

Anyway, enough prattle - get back to work!

No IPv6 Flag Day

2009-05-01T11:02:00.004-04:00

A good friend (Ed Jankiewicz) had a nifty idea, June 14th ("Flag Day") everyone should call their ISP and ask for IPv6 support ...

And while you are at it, go read this article from Geoff Huston:

Happy (impending) Valentine's Day ... ?

2009-02-14T02:14:00.001-05:00

... sadly more true now for more of us ...(And go see what XKCD has to say as well (read the mouse-over text :) )

IPv6 quote for 02.11.09:

2009-02-11T09:19:00.004-05:00

"All of this IP address market talk just distracts people from the main focus which is DOCSIS 3.0, and BroadbandSuite X.X. Get access box vendors on board with those specs which support IPv6, arrange for IPv6 trials with the vendors, and get ready for the inevitable. If some guys in finance and legal really want to play with IP address markets then ignore them because it is not going to buy you much more time. You may have the financial clout and negotiating finesse to buy the addresses you need, but that will push the address sellers into an accelerated deployment of IPv6 which will cause consumer takeup to come faster, IPv6 killer apps to appear faster, and so on.

All of these quota and reserve policies hasten the effective runout of the IPv4 address pool for all but the smallest ISPs. And any significant buying activity hastens the deployment of IPv6. There is a wave coming and those who catch it will survive; the rest will drown." --as found on ARIN's PPML
... thoughts or comments?

Great way to start the new year ...

2009-01-25T15:57:00.003-05:00

Namely, go on a week-long cruise! (Including complete disconnection from the Internet! ... and from the whole Inauguration stuff in this area!!)

Notes (please excuse the free-form, stream of consciousness style):

Saturday - bustle of boarding, getting acquainted ... Met nice couple from South Dakota on bus from hotel to dock ("5 degrees, that's not cold ... That's sweatshirt weather ... It was 24 _below_ when we left home")

Sunday - Lazy day on boat, getting more acquainted ... High of about 70 :)

Monday - 10am - Welcome to Jamaica, man is it warm - just standing makes you sweat ... Free shot of rum (and shot glass) from Colors ... Hour of shopping, taxi ride w/ the Kingreys to Mahogany Beach. BTW - every car here has body damage, and they all drive on the wrong side of the road ;). Spent two hours at beach, then taxi-van back to boat (cold hand towels as boarding, nice touch!) ... Then late lunch, followed by an hour or two in pool (Riley is loving her swimsuit that has floaties built-in :). ). Note: Jamaica - very commercial ... Everyone is trying to sell you something, whether in a store or along the curb. Oh, and we drove past the Enchanted Garden, where we had our honeymoon almost 10 years ago. Sidenote - outside of touristy parts, Jamaica seems very run-down, maybe it should have stayed a part of the British Empire?.

Tuesday - Back home it is inauguration day, ... Here, it is Grand Caymen day :) ... Tender service to shore this time ... And then Bec spent the whole day shopping, which means so did I :(. We has ditched the kid, again - her choice. Back to the boat, again cool hand towels and then a late lunch (all 3 of us) by the pool ... For dinner, Riley chose the Fun Zone again (instead of eating a semi-formal dinner with us) - but it was too packed, so I sat in there for a bit (helped her color her mask) until the adult-to-child ratio was right (not that any kids left, just that at 2030 they started a movie so the 'acceptable ratio' went up) ... I discovered that the boat has Red Bull, so I got my "Grey Goose and Red Bull" (that drink needs a name) on! (Just a couple, for now) ... And then some post-dinner 3-way action (Boggle, that is ... Yvette's Dramamine had knocked her out, so it was Jason, Bec and me); I totally rocked (a 70 point hand and (separately) a 9 letter word (radiation, FTW)! (Also - house (boat?) rule of doubling value for words that are more than half vowels kicked in, 22 points for that word :) )). And later - Time zone adjustment at sea, throws everything off!

Wednesday - Cozumel, "Diamond Day" - or so they say. Bec and Yvette did a 60m spa treatment thing on-board. Riley and I had breakfast (she was so happy they had pancakes this am). We (Bec and I) are going to maybe see some ruins, we (Jason and I) are maybe going to do some swimming / snorkeling (Didn't happen for me, Jason did - and found some sand dollars), and Bec wants to (ugh) shop some more (that means me too, again) - it did include me, as well as a long wait on hold to tell "Wachovia Loss Management" that it is really me trying to use my card (ugh, spent few $hundred ... supposedly a great price, salesperson said it was 3x that back in the US and the first quoted sale price was 2x) ... Oh, and Riley again chose the Fun Zone. Ruby Princess made the kids' area too fun, can't peel Riley away. FWIW - Gabby was in there as well most of the time with Riley, so atleast there was A familiar face ... Oh, and I played Texas Hold 'Em - poorly. TJ -= $100; one good hand and one decent hand - but others always had better (and called) ... we will chalk that up as a learning experience.

Thursday - Day at Sea; Windy and cold (like low 50s) ... Still went swimming with Riley (shiver) while Bec shops and does scrapbooking stuff (ugh and ugh again). Then some lounging poolside with family ... Maybe some onboard putt-putt (nope, group comedy even instead), definitely a formal dinner for all(!) of us tonight, and then maybe some more Poker (nope)...

Friday - Princess Cays (via tender); day of pure private beach fun ... Another late start; hard to get this crew moving in the morning ... Lots of snorkeling (very cool, should have done it sooner/more!), couple nice shells, lotsa fish (one looked like a small baracuda, long + skinny + toothy) AND I found a nice, big conch shell - with living inhabitant (conch or sea hermit crab)!! Now, a broadway style show - "Once Upon A Dream" (ahem, not my choice - but well done nonetheless), Bec bought some of the official photos and then a last dinner on-board - including a "march of the baked alaskas" ... (Riley --> Fun Zone one last time, "PJ Party" ... And they gave every kid a stuffed animal. Very nice, but Riley needs not more of those :) ).

Saturday - Good bye, Ruby Princess! (And in a few days, good bye blisters!). One last breakfast, then the bustle of off-boarding, customs, airport (with family) ... OH, and some in-flight Boggle - we are now members of the Mile High (Boggle) Club

Closing thoughts - Jamaica is a pointless stop unless you book an excursion; the pier area is over commercialized and yet manages to show some of the run-downedness very nearby. IMHO, drop that stop and make another day at the Princess Cays - or an overnight stop at, say, Cozumel (would allow time for a full day excursion and still do other/easier stuff). Other than that, the ship is fantastic, food is great, childcare provided (free!) for kids of all ages ...

I feel like another day at sea (or three) would have been good - or perhaps we should have skipped one shore trip (or booked an excursion), or woken up earlier every morning :).

Oh, and major thanks / props to our "room steward" Zaldy and the Eric (and Danielle and rest of staff) @ the Fun Zone. You all totally rocked.

Seriously, Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T00:00:00.000-05:00

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The IPv6 Year in Review

2008-12-31T10:06:00.003-05:00

Happy New Year (OK, a few hours early for that) ... anyway - It has been a great year for IPv6:
Some root servers got IPv6 addresses (+AAAA records)
Google held a little tech conference, great videos!
IPv6 Growth Increases 300 Percent in Two Years
Sensor vendors (Such as ArchRock) coming into their own
Industry finally starting to push IPv6 deployment / adoption
Google starts some public IPv6 testing, more info here
The OMB522 Mandate, of course
The 2008 Olympics was an IPv6 milestone
NAT-PT gets demoted to "historic"
... but NAT makes a comeback @ IETF73 (and elsewhere)
IPv6 turned ten!
Jeff Doyle has some similar thoughts, great excerpt:
"Another, more subtle, milestone is the change in the way IPv6 is presented in public networking forums. We have left behind what might be called the “marketing phase” of IPv6; most everyone in the IP networking world now understands that IPv6 is inevitable. Network operators (starting in the latter half of last year) are now focused on how to best implement IPv6; large portions of the agendas at NANOG, RIPE, and APRICOT have been devoted to strategy sharing. "

And, looking forward, there are lots of interesting goings-on:
Google's IPv6 Implementers' Conference
IETF74 promises lots of IPv6-relevant action

... and, for a gratuitous plug, if you decide you need to start getting up to speed - or advancing your knowledge of IPv6 - I know who you should ask: Command Information's IPv6 Training Calendar (Also reachable via a shorter URL)

(Oh, and I still HIGHLY recommend everyone read Geoff Huston's latest article!)

So, what are your thoughts for 2008, IPv6 and life in general?

((Cross-posted))

Merry Christmas!

2008-12-25T00:00:00.004-05:00

Bah Humbug

IPv6 article - not your average one though!

2008-12-19T10:04:00.006-05:00

... and lots of other fantastic works of art, like the IPv6 Rocket Train, therein!
Please share thoughts, comments, etc. ... I am still formulating mine! (But P157 is particularly key!!)

((crossposted))

Newest member of my family

2008-12-10T19:26:00.007-05:00

... or perhaps I should say, newest addition to my fleet? Anyway, I have purchased a new car ... something practical:
(Note: this is not actually a picture of MY Mustang, but it is mighty close ... once work slows down I might have time to take a good picture) ... sorry I hadn't mentioned it here sooner, if you follow me @ other places you would already know that this all went down Saturday ...

Turkey Day!

2008-11-26T17:48:00.003-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving!... I have a sweet 4 days weekend, which includes a family trip to Virginia Beach ... weeeee!

Oh, and guess what SOMEBODY is getting for his birthday:

Take a moment to day to remember our Veterans

2008-11-11T09:57:00.006-05:00

God Bless the United States of America

An Open Letter to President-Elect Obama

2008-11-07T13:14:00.002-05:00

Some thoughts from a good friend, Glen - over here which I am gratuitously copying here:
President-elect Obama,
It seems congratulations are in order to you and to the Democrat party on your successful bids for the American presidency and both houses of Congress. I congratulate, also, those Americans who put the proper time, effort, and thought into their choice of elected officials.
Also, I must profess appreciation for the wisdom inherent in the following words uttered at your acceptance speech on that historic Tuesday evening in Chicago, “And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.”
I, sir, am one of those voices. As are more than 50 million of our fellow Americans. You campaigned as a “Great Unifier”, soon will come the time to make good on that promise. Undoubtably, it will be no easy task to join red and blue, capitalist and socialist, Conservative and Progressive. With this in mind, I have put together a short list of suggestions aimed at helping you traverse the obstacles that will surely impede your progress along this arduous, near impossible path.
Sir, despite your belief that many of your fellow citizens cling to guns simply out of some mental or psychological weakness, the truth is that many of us have a deep seated faith in the Second Amendment for a much deeper, fundamental, and yes even American reason. There are those who innately understand that a government that takes away the ability of its people to protect themselves from that self same body is no longer an government by and of the people, but rather a government that in fact rules its people. The NRA alone has more than four million members. You, sir, will be their president, too.
Sir, it may be your view that those who oppose your tax programs must be selfish, unfair, or simply unpatriotic; but let me assure you this is, in fact, not the case. You must at least attempt to entertain the thought that there may be no small number of Americans who may simply disagree with the idea of taxation as a mechanism for social change. A group with a different view of the government’s role in the pilfering of monies. Who understand that taxation and freedom exist in opposition, and that the more there is of one, the less there will be of the other. Our founding fathers understood this. They fought a revolution for this very idea. Millions of Americans still hold those old fashioned beliefs. You, sir, will be their president, too.
Sir, I ought not show such hubris as to question your belief in the sanctity of the First Amendment, but there have been some rather ominous signs during your campaign of an inclination toward intimidation and the silencing of your critics. Your monk-like silence while your followers viciously attacked the personal lives of those who would question or disagree with your views lends to the belief that you condone such behavior. The smear campaigns against Joe the Plumber, Stanley Kurtz, and Sara Palin come to mind. Both sides need understand that the First Amendment does not absolve one from disagreement or from opposing arguments. But it most definitely should protect a citizen from personal attacks, unlawful government intrusions, and any and all types of intimidation. Most all Americans believe deeply in their First Amendment right of freedom of speech. Unfortunately, fewer believe that right includes the free speech of others as well. You, sir, will be their president, too.
Sir, it may just be that the notion ‘no matter what the question, government is the answer’ has been encoded into your personal DNA, but this is not the belief of a large section of the American public. In fact, many believe they succeed in spite of the government, not because of it. As a scholar interested in our shared history, you surely must know that the Federal government today is larger than it has ever been at any time in our history. Yet somehow our ancestors, with that very same smaller government, endured and even prospered for nearly two and a half centuries. The fact is many believe this was not merely a coincidence. You, sir, will be their president, too.
Sir, I will give you the benefit of the doubt that your stance on Global Warming comes from an honorable place, that you are in fact more interested in protecting our shared planet than accumulating even more governmental power. But do your stated policies even stand up to scrutiny? Many believe they do not. According to Jacob Sullum at Townhall.com, you plan to “”implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050." That is even more ambitious than the goal of a cap-and-trade bill that the Department of Energy estimates would cost between $444 billion and $1.3 trillion in reduced economic growth over two decades.” The Cato Institute’s Policy Analysis “The Consequences Of Kyoto” posits that even with a worldwide adherence to Kyoto protocols, “The amount of warming "saved" by the emissions reduction...is infinitesimal: 0.19 degrees C.” Let’s face it, not even a polar bear could feel that variation. Again that 0.19 degrees, sir, is with a worldwide adherence. Your program simply deals with America alone. Let’s do the math, over a billion dollar hit to the U.S. economy on the one side, the mere possibility of a fraction of a degree temperature change on the other. There are still a few Americans left with the facility of critical thought. You, sir, will be their president, too.
In closing, sir, I “hope” that you truly are a “change” from what we who may disagree with you have come to expect from the Liberal establishment. I hope that you will, as you have said, hear our voices and be open to our help. As hard as it may be for you to fathom, we ‘loyal opposition’ still have America’s best interests at heart. It is important, if you wish to be true to the moniker of “Uniter”, that you do not simply dismiss us. For you, sir, are our president, too.
Sorry to copy it Glen, but I couldn't pick just one good part ...

President Obama

2008-11-04T23:03:00.006-05:00

Congratulations to our (projected) new President, and let's hope he fails to deliver on all of the "promises" and "change" that got him elected - our country is already mostly great, and doesn't need that much change. But congratulations are due, and it IS a history-making moment - our first African American President!

Heh, and Beth shares a plus out of this via Twitter - "Looks like Sen. Hillary Clinton will be boxed out from the White House for the next four to eight years"

Let's also hope that the Republican Party decides to regroup, and just maybe actually be Conservative again.

Oh, and I am also disappointed in my home state - Virginia - for becoming so "blue" ... so many of the people in my state buying into the load of WHAT I BELIEVE are false (and I believe intentionally misleading) promises.

PS - IS THIS A GOOD TIME TO ANNOUNCE MY WRITE-IN CANDIDACY FOR 2012?
VOTE TJ/2012 - IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!

A last-couple-hours plea for reason to "We the people" ...

2008-11-04T16:53:00.006-05:00

From over at Townhall.com, an excellent article ... some choice excerpts:
"The prospect of a Barack Obama presidency makes me very nervous.

Obama's entire campaign has been based on the need for radical, transformational change, which implies there is something very wrong with America.

It's hardly surprising, then, that he has painted the bleakest picture of America instead of acknowledging, as a starting point, that we are still the greatest nation in the world.

For the past eight years, Democrats have slandered America ...
...
They've preached bipartisanship while exhibiting the nastiest partisanship in my lifetime, calling Bush "King George III," "Hitler," a "murderer," a "war criminal," a "reckless cowboy," a "moron" and a "Christian throwback."
...
With all respect, almost everything about Obama's campaign is fraudulent. He masquerades as a uniter while dividing, polarizing and alienating us. He denies he's liberal, when objective sources score him as the most liberal senator. He says he barely knows militants and radicals with whom he has spent his lifetime cavorting and whose worldviews -- horrifyingly -- he shares. He brazenly disguises welfare redistributions as tax cuts. He and his surrogates keep changing his tax plan.
...
and finished with:
Before our very eyes, America stands poised to elect as president the most radical man ever to run for this office credibly. Don't say we didn't warn you."
... INDEED!

Tomorrow is THE day ... last chance

2008-11-03T22:14:00.001-05:00

A quick note while I am watching SNL's pre-election special ... ... found over here

Coming down to the wire ...

2008-11-02T16:47:00.008-05:00

First and foremost - please vote! If you don't vote, don't complain.

OK, with that out of the way:

An interesting quote, from Chris over @ Beth's place
Your vote belongs to you. Not the New York Times. Not the Washington Post. Not the elites of Europe. Not Fox News. Not your next door neighbor. You and you alone. It is your one way of thumbing your nose and sticking it to the people in charge. The only wasted vote is one that was not cast. Assume the other side is getting every eligible person out to vote and do your part. Encourage others that are thinking of not voting. Drag them to the polls if you have to. Don’t get down. Don’t stop. Don’t rest. We’ll have 2 years to rest after Tuesday. If we vote and lose, so be it. It wasn’t meant to be. If we lose because we didn’t vote, then that will make us derelict in our duty to our country. If that happens, we will only have ourselves to blame if we start losing freedoms and our wages to the government.

THIS RACE IS NOT OVER UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN THE POLLS CLOSE IN YOUR AREA.

Naturally, I think you should Vote for McCain :) ...

Did you hear about this - Obama wants to bankrupt coal powerplants? Global warming aside, do you like to have heat during winter? Just asking.

And if you like old music, don't support Obama and need a bit of entertainment - Obama, the Kool-Aid Main

Happy Halloween!

2008-10-31T04:04:00.002-04:00

... wish I was home w/ the family for it!

SHAME, CUBED

2008-10-29T21:08:00.003-04:00

A pretty righteous articles entitled: SHAME, CUBED, an abridged excerpt:
THE FIRST CIRCLE OF SHAME
There is nothing vague or ambiguous about this. Nothing.
From the top:
“…The Supreme Court never entered into the issues of re-distribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.”

...

THE SECOND CIRCLE OF SHAME
Mercifully shorter than the First, and simply this: I happen to know the person who found this audio. It is an individual person, with no more resources than a desire to know everything that he or she can about who might be the next President of the United States and the most powerful man in the world.
I know that this person does not have teams of highly-paid professionals, does not work out of a corner office in a skyscraper in New York, does not have access to all of the subtle and hidden conduits of information… who possesses no network television stations, owns no satellite time, does not receive billions in advertising dollars, and has a staff of exactly ONE.

...

THE THIRD CIRCLE OF SHAME
This discovery will hurt Obama much more than Joe the Plumber.
What will be left of my friend, and my friend’s family, I wonder, when the press is finished with them?

So, you - now - go read the whole thing. Apparently, you can also comment over here

Update from Canada

2008-10-28T20:07:00.004-04:00

Teaching IPv6 up here in the not-yet-frosty North, and just thought I'd drop a quick update here ...
More on biased reporting - READ ALL 5 pages ("Print" view)
Obama, big Marx fan
Barney Frank wants to cut defense spending ... WHAT??
DOW jumps 889
... oh, and a quote from Riley - "Ice Cream makes me do somersaults" ... :)

Oh, and some quick thoughts on the media ...

2008-10-22T19:30:00.001-04:00

Coverage of McCain Much More Negative Than That of Obama
Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?

More political stuff ...

2008-10-22T07:00:00.005-04:00

Excerpt from "The comprehensive argument against Barack Obama":
If recent polls are to believed, freshman Senator Barack Obama has a better than average chance of becoming America’s 44th President, the Commander-in-Chief of the planet’s most powerful military, and the proverbial leader of the free world. It’s worth mentioning that just four years ago as President Bush and Senator John Kerry were vying for the White House, Obama was still a part-time State Senator representing a liberal district in Chicago. Before that he was an attorney and, famously, a community organizer. In 2008, Obama has positioned himself as a post-partisan, thoughtful moderate with the superior judgment required to lead the country. These are lofty promises from a man with precious little executive experience, and a Senate career that lasted exactly 143 legislative days before he launched yet another campaign for higher office. No one can deny his ambition. In fact, if Obama wins on November 4th—and serves one full term in the Oval Office—the Presidency of the United States would be the longest consecutively held full-time job he has ever held without seeking another.
... now go read (and watch, LOTS of videos!) the whole thing ...

Oh, and go read this and this as well!