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Feb 16
Reminder – Curling Open House TODAY at Petersham Curling Club
Want to try out curling TODAY? As we mentioned earlier, the Petersham Curling Club is having an Open House free to anyone TODAY, Sunday, February 16, from 12-5pm.
The Petersham Curling Club (PCC) is about 45 minutes south of Keene. Just head south on Route 32 (going down past the Keene airport) and stay on Route 32 all the way down through Richmond, NH, Royalston, MA, Athol and on into Petersham. The club is located right off of Route 32. More information can be found on the PCC directions page. In good weather it takes about 45 minutes to get from Keene down to the Petersham club.
At today’s Open House, you’ll learn how to deliver a stone, the role of sweeping and more. This will be a great opportunity to get on the ice and experience the sport yourself. All you need to bring is a pair of clean, rubber-soled shoes and your enthusiasm!
The Petersham Curling Club is a great place to curl and is where several of us involved with starting up the Monadnock Curling Club all curl. We strongly encourage you to head down to Petersham, MA, and check out the Open Houses. And if the curling bug bites you as it has us, please do join the PCC and start playing the awesome sport of curling!
This is where you can get started today and enjoy curling!
And then… please let us know you are interested in seeing curling come to Keene!
Feb 16
Reminder – Curling Open House TODAY at Petersham Curling Club
Want to try out curling TODAY? As we mentioned earlier, the Petersham Curling Club is having an Open House free to anyone TODAY, Sunday, February 16, from 12-5pm.
The Petersham Curling Club (PCC) is about 45 minutes south of Keene. Just head south on Route 32 (going down past the Keene airport) and stay on Route 32 all the way down through Richmond, NH, Royalston, MA, Athol and on into Petersham. The club is located right off of Route 32. More information can be found on the PCC directions page. In good weather it takes about 45 minutes to get from Keene down to the Petersham club.
At today’s Open House, you’ll learn how to deliver a stone, the role of sweeping and more. This will be a great opportunity to get on the ice and experience the sport yourself. All you need to bring is a pair of clean, rubber-soled shoes and your enthusiasm!
The Petersham Curling Club is a great place to curl and is where several of us involved with starting up the Monadnock Curling Club all curl. We strongly encourage you to head down to Petersham, MA, and check out the Open Houses. And if the curling bug bites you as it has us, please do join the PCC and start playing the awesome sport of curling!
This is where you can get started today and enjoy curling!
And then… please let us know you are interested in seeing curling come to Keene!
Feb 15
TDYR #101 – The Beauty Of Having Someone You Taught Teach Someone Else
Reflecting on watching someone you taught teach someone else... :-)
Feb 15
Weekend Project: Upgrade SpamAssassin To Release 3.4.0 And Add IPv6 Records For Your Mail Server(s)
If you operate your own mail server and use Apache’s SpamAssassin as your anti-spam tool, here’s a weekend project for you – upgrade SpamAssassin to release 3.4.0, which, as we mentioned this past Wednesday, now includes better IPv6 support! The release also has a number of other features which make the upgrade useful.
After doing that upgrade, if you have IPv6 connectivity your next step is to make sure you have the correct records in DNS to accept mail over IPv6. In DNS, the ‘MX’ records point to the host names of the mail servers that will accept email for a given domain. All you need to do to accept email over IPv6 is make sure that each host name used in MX records also has a ‘AAAA’ record with the IPv6 address for the server.
If you do not have IPv6 connectivity, your next step is to ask your ISP or server hosting provider when they will support IPv6! Preferably in a public forum (or on social media) so that they can respond and others can also join in to the request. 
If they won’t have IPv6 soon (and you don’t want to or can’t switch to a different hosting provider or ISP), you could try setting up an IPv6 tunnel to get IPv6 connectivity to your mail server.
You also do need a mail server that supports IPv6, of course, and so you may need to check that with the company or group behind your mail server. (As I note to myself that we need a page here on Deploy360 that lists IPv6-capable mail servers!)
To test out your ability to receive email over IPv6, here is an email test tool that can check if your records and servers are set correctly. (Here is an example test for ietf.org.)
If you did all this, congratulations! You’re now ready to accept email – and protect yourself from spam – over IPv6!
Feb 14
TDYR #100 – Reflecting On 100 Episodes Of The Dan York Report
In this episode I reflect back on the first 100 episodes of The Dan York Report ...
Feb 14
Humor: IPv6 Exhaustion Counter
In the spirit of the IPv4 Exhaustion Counter, we were greatly amused to see that there is an IPv6 Exhaustion Counter.
As well as an alternative version for IPv6 prefixes. Kudos to Sam Bowne for creating this fun little counter!
The beautiful part about IPv6 is that there are no issues with running out of IPv6 addresses… and you can be free to think of IPv6 address plans without all the legacy restrictions of IPv4 and trying to conserve every possible address.
How can we help you make the move to IPv6 today?
Feb 13
TDYR #099 – Want To Try Out Curling? Find A Local Curling Club!
Want to try out curling? Find a local curling club! In the US, you can visit:
http://www.curlingrocks.net/USA-Curling/Clubs/Find-a-Club
In Canada, you can visit:
http://www.curling.ca/membership/member-curling-clubs/
Feb 13
Why We Want Dedicated Curling Ice, Part 1: It’s About The Schedule!
Why do we want dedicated curling ice versus curling on an ice arena? With the great success happening with Keene Ice’s plans for a new year-round ice arena here in Keene (which is awesome!), we’ve had several people asking this question – and the reality is that we may need to use arena ice as part of our process of starting up, but our end goal is very definitely to have dedicated curling ice in the Keene region.
We touched on this subject in our FAQ, but I want to expand on the reasons. The primary reason is scheduling. With an arena, you are competing for time with the many hockey leagues, the figure skating clubs, the public skating time, as well as rentals and other uses. The end result is that you typically only get to have time for curling on one day of the week, and even then at a time of little interest to others, in part because you really need about a 5-hour block of time to do setup/tear-down and play two games. (A typical curling game of 8 ends lasts about 2 hours.) If you look at the websites for some of the arena curling clubs in the region, you’ll see that they are typically only playing on one or two days of the week.
In contrast, with dedicated ice you can have curling happening on every day of the week – and can also frequently run curling “bonspiels” (“tournaments”) that bring in people and teams from around the region.
Curling Leagues
Consider the schedule of activities at nearby Petersham Curling Club. Here is their schedule:
- Mondays – Men’s League with multiple evening games.
- Tuesdays – Daytime League at 2pm. Men’s League in the evening
- Wednesdays – Women’s League
- Thursdays – “Signature” League (A highly competitive league.)
- Fridays – Mixed (men and women) League in the evening.
- Saturdays:
- Youth Curling League from 9 – 12:15pm
- Mixed Doubles League some Saturday afternoons
- Rentals of curling ice some Saturday afternoons
- Mixed (men and women) League in the evening
- Sundays – Rentals of curling ice on some Sunday afternoons. “Under 5″ (years of play) social league in the evening.
That makes for a LOT of activity! And there are other rentals that take place during the day and other activities that happen at the club from time to time. Here in Keene we would also see curling ice being able to be potentially used by the schools for physical education activities – and we could potentially see our colleges being interested in having some curling activities or teams.
Or consider Broomstones Curling Club in Wayland, MA. They also have multiple leagues playing each day of the week – and their club is full! You CANNOT join even if you wanted to! They have a waiting list and simply cannot accept people into their club because they have no room for people to play. Here is what their league calendar looks like (and this doesn’t include their active youth curling program, their college program or their rentals):
You can’t build this kind of community and activity around curling with just a few hours of rented ice arena time!
Bonspiels (Tournaments)
For scheduling, the other big issue is the hosting of curling “bonspiels” which are tournaments where teams compete. I’ll write more about the potential economic impact of bonspiels in another article, but suffice it to say they are a great way to get people excited about curling and to bring in a large number of people from outside the region (and to have them staying in Keene hotels, eating at our restaurants, shopping at our stores, etc.).
A typical adult bonspiel begins with multiple games on a Friday night, has games all day on Saturday and then usually has multiple games on a Sunday as well. Typically there is also a dinner or other social event involved as well. The point is that the ice is used occupied for pretty much the entire weekend.
This is a severe challenge to try with an ice arena given the many other needs of the other groups using an ice arena. The arena curling clubs with which I am familiar are often able to do a bonspiel maybe once a year – or sometimes they are able to get single-day events happening from time-to-time.
In contrast, dedicated clubs can run a bonspiel each month if they chose to do so… all really depending upon their own organizational capabilities. Some, like Broomstones, do run multiple events for adults, youth (and different levels of youth), seniors, mixed leagues and more.
THAT Is Why
This is really the big reason why our end goal is to have dedicated curling ice here in the Keene and greater Monadnock region – either as a completely separate facility or as part of an existing facility. We want to build a strong curling community and have a financially strong and viable club. We want to have many different leagues and other activities as we outlined in our vision.
Please join us! Help us make this a reality!
Feb 13
Why We Want Dedicated Curling Ice, Part 1: It’s About The Schedule!
Why do we want dedicated curling ice versus curling on an ice arena? With the great success happening with Keene Ice’s plans for a new year-round ice arena here in Keene (which is awesome!), we’ve had several people asking this question – and the reality is that we may need to use arena ice as part of our process of starting up, but our end goal is very definitely to have dedicated curling ice in the Keene region.
We touched on this subject in our FAQ, but I want to expand on the reasons. The primary reason is scheduling. With an arena, you are competing for time with the many hockey leagues, the figure skating clubs, the public skating time, as well as rentals and other uses. The end result is that you typically only get to have time for curling on one day of the week, and even then at a time of little interest to others, in part because you really need about a 5-hour block of time to do setup/tear-down and play two games. (A typical curling game of 8 ends lasts about 2 hours.) If you look at the websites for some of the arena curling clubs in the region, you’ll see that they are typically only playing on one or two days of the week.
In contrast, with dedicated ice you can have curling happening on every day of the week – and can also frequently run curling “bonspiels” (“tournaments”) that bring in people and teams from around the region.
Curling Leagues
Consider the schedule of activities at nearby Petersham Curling Club. Here is their schedule:
- Mondays – Men’s League with multiple evening games.
- Tuesdays – Daytime League at 2pm. Men’s League in the evening
- Wednesdays – Women’s League
- Thursdays – “Signature” League (A highly competitive league.)
- Fridays – Mixed (men and women) League in the evening.
- Saturdays:
- Youth Curling League from 9 – 12:15pm
- Mixed Doubles League some Saturday afternoons
- Rentals of curling ice some Saturday afternoons
- Mixed (men and women) League in the evening
- Sundays – Rentals of curling ice on some Sunday afternoons. “Under 5” (years of play) social league in the evening.
That makes for a LOT of activity! And there are other rentals that take place during the day and other activities that happen at the club from time to time. Here in Keene we would also see curling ice being able to be potentially used by the schools for physical education activities – and we could potentially see our colleges being interested in having some curling activities or teams.
Or consider Broomstones Curling Club in Wayland, MA. They also have multiple leagues playing each day of the week – and their club is full! You CANNOT join even if you wanted to! They have a waiting list and simply cannot accept people into their club because they have no room for people to play. Here is what their league calendar looks like (and this doesn’t include their active youth curling program, their college program or their rentals):
You can’t build this kind of community and activity around curling with just a few hours of rented ice arena time!
Bonspiels (Tournaments)
For scheduling, the other big issue is the hosting of curling “bonspiels” which are tournaments where teams compete. I’ll write more about the potential economic impact of bonspiels in another article, but suffice it to say they are a great way to get people excited about curling and to bring in a large number of people from outside the region (and to have them staying in Keene hotels, eating at our restaurants, shopping at our stores, etc.).
A typical adult bonspiel begins with multiple games on a Friday night, has games all day on Saturday and then usually has multiple games on a Sunday as well. Typically there is also a dinner or other social event involved as well. The point is that the ice is used occupied for pretty much the entire weekend.
This is a severe challenge to try with an ice arena given the many other needs of the other groups using an ice arena. The arena curling clubs with which I am familiar are often able to do a bonspiel maybe once a year – or sometimes they are able to get single-day events happening from time-to-time.
In contrast, dedicated clubs can run a bonspiel each month if they chose to do so… all really depending upon their own organizational capabilities. Some, like Broomstones, do run multiple events for adults, youth (and different levels of youth), seniors, mixed leagues and more.
THAT Is Why
This is really the big reason why our end goal is to have dedicated curling ice here in the Keene and greater Monadnock region – either as a completely separate facility or as part of an existing facility. We want to build a strong curling community and have a financially strong and viable club. We want to have many different leagues and other activities as we outlined in our vision.
Please join us! Help us make this a reality!
Feb 13
Are There More (or Newer) DNSSEC / DANE Application Developer Libraries We Should Add To Our List?
What developer libraries / modules are you using to add DNSSEC or DANE support to your applications? For some time now we’ve maintained a list of DNSSEC developer libraries at:
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/dnssec-developer-libraries/
but I noticed that the list is now two years old! While many of the libraries listed on the “common” ones that many developers use, I have to think that there have also been some newer libraries in the time since, perhaps in some other languages. Before I spent time looking around developer sites and mailing lists, I thought I would ask you all who visit this site – do you know of any libraries we aren’t listing?
If you are aware of any additional libraries that we should add to the list, we would love to hear about them, either as comments to this blog post, as comments on the social networks where this post will appear, or via email or our feedback form.
Your help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
