What makes curling ice so different than other ice? What extra preparation has to be done to the ice? And how does sweeping really work?
The Smithsonian Magazine has a great article out this month that dives into detail about what goes …
Feb 20
Smithsonian: Why Curling Ice Is Different Than Other Ice
Feb 19
TDYR #105 – The Good News That IPv6 Deployment *IS* Happening Around The World
If you are in IT and have been avoiding learning about IPv6 because you think it will never happen, new measurements show that it IS being deployed around the world! More info and stats here: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140219_anyone_who_still_thi…
Feb 19
Anyone Who Still Thinks IPv6 Won’t Happen Clearly Isn’t Watching the Measurements (Featured Blog)
Anyone who still is using the “I’ll-just-wait-on-IPv6-because-it-will-never-happen” approach is clearly NOT watching the measurements. First, there was the news last week that Google’s IPv6 measurement had crossed over 3% less than five months after cr…
Feb 19
New IPv6 Measurements: Comcast nearing 25%, Verizon Wireless 46%, DT at 18%
Great news out of the World IPv6 Launch measurements this month! As our colleague Mat Ford writes, Belgium’s Telenet is a new entrant into the measurements that is already showing an impressive 12.17% deployment of IPv6. Congratulations to the team there for making that happen! Scanning down the February 2014 measurements, there are some other Read more…
Feb 18
TDYR #104 – That Moment You Realize You Don’t Have To Watch The Olympic Livestreams… Live!
Today I had one of those moments when you realize how much the Internet has changed everything…
Feb 18
How Can We Visualize Generic TLDs (and newGTLDs) In Our DNSSEC Deployment Maps?
What is the best way to visualize the DNSSEC deployment status of the “generic top-level-domains (gTLDs)” in our DNSSEC deployment maps that go out weekly? Obviously since gTLDs (including the “newgTLDs”) are not tied to a country, there is no way to display them on an actual map as we do for all the ccTLDs. Given that, Read more…
Feb 17
Useful Internet-Draft: IPv6 Operational Guidelines for Datacenters
What should data center operators think about with regard to IPv6? One of the Internet Drafts in the V6OPS working group within the IETF aims to address this issue. The latest version was just released two weeks ago on February 3, 2014, and can be found at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-dc-ipv6 As the abstract notes: This document is Read more…
Feb 17
TDYR #103 – Missing The Great Canadian Screw
Canadians have a great screw: the Robertson or “square drive” head. When living in Canada we discovered how superior the Robertson screw is from the Phillips screw we use in the USA – and I’ve since used these screws in all my building projects. Howev…
Feb 17
FIR #743 – 2/17/14 – For Immediate Release
Recording with Zoom today; Quick News: free Business of Blogging ebook available, Twitter hosts 10,000 racial slurs daily, the top dozen crises of 2013, social media developments in air travel; Ragan promo; News That Fits: update on native advertising …
Feb 16
TDYR #102 – Amused To Be On The Front Page Of The Sports Section Of Our Local Paper
I was greatly amused to find myself on the front page of the Sports section of our local paper, the Keene Sentinel, with a great article about our efforts to bring the sport of curling to Keene and the greater Monadnock region. Here’s the article:
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