This is a fictionalised retelling of a dream I had in the wee hours of this morning. It flows basically the same as the action from the dream, but some of the thinking and interpretation occurred in the couple of hours after I woke up and still had the dream in my head. I also … Continue reading Good Luck: a dream
Tag: observation
Two of the four keynotes at LCA 2011 referenced the depletion of the IPv4 address space (and I reckon if I looked back through the other two I could find some reference in them as well). I think there's a good chance Geoff Huston was lobbying his APNIC colleagues to lodge the "final request" (for … Continue reading IPv6: SSDM?
I like new things. Many of my friends and colleagues do as well. Some of us are very familiar with "early adopter tax", the high price of paying for a new release product or program in spite of the knowledge that delaying the purchase would save money. I got to thinking about early-adoption a little … Continue reading On being an early-adopter
It's probably been coined already, and I'm sure it's not a new realisation. Something happened at my employer recently that's made me wonder whether the old benchmark of "enterprise-grade" is really relevant any more.Our internal IM system was closed down for a while this week, and when it was restarted a number of us could … Continue reading Internet-grade
Crossed Wires 