Version Six

I enabled IPv6 via 6to4 tunnel a couple of years ago when Fedora Core 2 made it easy to turn on.

It's been humming along.  IP through a tunnel isn't the best thing but that is clearly how we are going to get this done until AT&T and the other US ISPs get off their collective rear ends.

Recently, I've been reading up on what it will take to run single stack (IPv6 only).  It seems like IPv6 + NAT-PT + a DNS proxy services can get you most of the way there.  I'm going to try it out and see where the gaps are.

The cafeteria

I spent the morning in the cafeteria reading a book and working on some ideas.

There was a tornado drill - it was kind of cute to watch the little kids duck and cover in the hallways.

Constitutional Amendments

I think our country might be better off if we squarely faced the limits of the federal government's power, made a sober assessment of the same vis a vis our long term interests, and passed amendments as necessary.

Of course, reality means this is like herding cats.  So it's easier for us to pass another bread and circuses bill.

I'll be spending my check just like everybody else.  I'll be giving it to my wife :-)

Efficiency

You don't have to choose between economic growth and protecting the environment.  They are two sides of the same coin.

Economic growth is all about efficiency.  You are always doing more with less; faster, better, cheaper.  Any waste is inefficiency.

When a car exhausts CO2 or nitrous oxide into the troposphere you lose heat and energy that makes an ICE less than 100% efficient.  Also - there has been a rise in the concentration of these gases in the atmosphere that can be linked to human activity so it seems likely that at some point somebody will be willing to pay to try to recapture that gas which could mean that many of us that have been releasing it will have gotten a free ride.

This is not a new idea and it's certainly not my idea.  It is also not a complete solution for environmental problems.  It is clearly impossible for us in the current time to accurately calculate the eventual full costs of a current action.  Small actions have a ripple effect and interact to create larger problems.

But as with anything difficult that doesn't mean that we shouldn't even make an attempt.

A moment

This is one of my favorite pictures - for obvious reasons.

Tonight's the night

They are on the way home tonight.  Can't wait.

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

I don't like to be a fawning fanboy but this operating system is the most killer thing I've used in quite a while.

The attention to detail is extraordinary.

I'll be interesting to see if I still feel this way a month or a year from now...