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World of Middles: 6Bone Phone Home

Connecting IPv6 Routing Domains Over the IPv4 Internet by Brian Carpenter, Keith Moore, and Bob Fink

Everything you wanted to know about the IPv4 to IPv6 transition and more, in this Cisco publication

"Of great concern to transition strategy planners is how to provide connectivity between IPv6-enabled end-user sites (also known as routing domains) when they do not yet have a reasonable (or any) choice of Internet Service Provider (ISP) that provides native IPv6 transport services. One way to provide IPv6 connectivity between end-user sites (when native IPv6 service does not exist) is to use IPv6-over-IPv4 encapsulation (tunneling) between them, similar to the technique currently used in the 6bone [5] IPv6 testbed network."

My Inner Dwarf

I took the test. It came out wrong. I self selected "Grumpy." Maybe I'm not always Grumpy. Maybe I'm sometimes Dopey. Or Sneezy. Or Bashful. Or Doc. Or Happy. Or Sleepy.

In truth I have a lot of Dopey in me. But then, sometimes I'm almost Sneezy. There are days you'll find me Happy. I'm seldom Bashful anymore, but it wasn't that long ago that this dwarf hobbled me a bit. Doc? There's really only room for one Doc. But I'm often Sleepy, and that's for sure. I don't think we need feel bound by only one inner-Dwarf. In fact, I sometimes wonder if I don't have a little Snow White in there somewhere too.

Yggdrasil My Ash...

Catching up on some reading this morning, I found Stu Savory's Christmas Eve piece about holiday season beliefs and traditions. Spooky... the picture he paints of the US as a belief oriented society. But I wonder if he isn't mixing up his pagan traditions a little? I always thought the pine tree traditions were similar but distinct from the Norse "world tree" perspective with Yggdrasil, the sacred ash at the center of all existence. And digging deeper into etymological distinctions, it was my understanding that it's "in the pines, in the pines where the sun never shines." So what does this have to do with "hauling ashes?" Just wondering.

Right-wing Ideological Movement

The Tutor has a link to the Commonweal Institute's information on the right-wing ideological movement. far from conservative values or conservative programmatic responses to social needs, these ideologues seek to leverage political and personal power under the banner of an ideological movement... our public education of course prepared us for evaluating ideological movements on the left (such as Communism) and on the right (such as Fascism) and discounting them as less than thoughtful responses to complex and shared sets of social problems and concerns. That very public education is under the direct attack by the right-wing ideologues. Read a little of this stuff and see if you can guess why:

A Top Ten List or Three...

Lewisburg, PA. December 26, 2003. yourDictionary.com ... today released its Top 10 Words of 2003, featuring words that have made the news this year. The complete list includes the top phrases, the top names, the best and worst product names, top Enron inspired words, top YouthSpeak words, and others.

Some of the 2003 Sandhill Offerings...

Here's a Sandhill year in review list o' links...

January... a young journalist's career is launched.

January... Ben Granby, live from Iraq.

February... the Columbia went down.

March... Dad received his "Timeless Innovation" award from Kraft Foods.

April... I got busted for opposing the endless Republican war of imperialist aggression.

April... Major depression set in when my late submission of a paper to the Digital Genres conference was rejected for being late.

May... Sandhill Trek Interview: Ryan Irelan

May... Sandhill Trek Interview: Michelle Goodrich

May... Attended Digital Genres Confab at the University of Chicago.

June... Did my best to stretch my poor little head around the complexities of post modernism or whatever it is that's happening now that post modernism is universally acknowledged to have been an arid pseudo-intellectual dead-end with no redeeming virtues save the enrichment of a few quasi French (Algerian really ) poseurs.

June... Sandhill Trek Interview: Betsy Devine

June... Sandhill Trek Interview: Steve MacLaughlin

July... Sandhill Trek Interview: Chris Locke

August... Sandhill Trek Quickie: Robert Arnold

October... Shelley Powers at Cromlech Glen

October... Began the diet. Met Norm Jenson in virtual space.

November... Andrea James becomes Fishrush.

November... Escape from userland!

December... Sandhill Trek Interview: David Weinberger

Leave it to Jerry Mathers

Lenny Bruce received a posthumous pardon the other day. I'm sure he would have used it for toilet paper. Being dead, there's not a lot of good Pataki's forgiveness can do for him. But here in our own little corner of blogaria, we have a cause celebre in the making... or not. I'm pleased to be presented with the graphical art at RB's shop, and the social commentary that accompanies it. But the bible belt ain't that far away and it has a tendency to be tightened in these parlous, if certainly less than perilous (though all dolled up in Orange) times. Walk tall RB... but be careful lest the long arm of John (Law) Ashcroft reach out and chill your rights to free speech.

How Cool!

I did a TRACKBACK! I was a trackback virgin but now I'm not. I think the earth moved. (Now, in a fit of recursive weirdness I did a trackback in this post of the post I did my trackback in... but it wasn't as satisfying somehow. Probably didn't use the right personal lubricant.)

Oh My Goodness!

Ken Camp deploys reams of truth today about our networked technologies and not all of the Truth lines up nicely with the conventional wisdom of our founding blog-fathers. Ken is an IP telephony expert with a deep understanding of POTS and PSTN and all that jazz. He is saying a lot of what I've been thinking (typographical errors and all!) Forgive him his typos and read for content... Ken is on a roll with a well reasoned engineering and capital investment critique of the "World of Ends" essay that David Weinberger and Doc Searls wrote. In a way, this engineering perspective can be seen as orthogonal to the marketing and policy shaping work of Weinberger and Searls. They're selling a concept of a dumb network with intelligent edges. Ken is painting the reality of QoS and media contents (non-bursty traffic) versus data contents (bursty traffic). He describes the network administrators' truth of hardware and network software and all the wires and routers and switches and antique telephony gear that is the chewing gum and glue that holds this wonderful Internet together. This is a long piece and it deserves to be read. Please read it.

Flying United?

The mile high club is one thing. United Airlines is another. I suppose if you look at it a certain way, they're both just variations on how to get fucked. Based on my experience coming and going this last week, I will in the future avoid United Airlines connections to Madison through Chicago at all costs. It wasn't just the holidays. And it wasn't just the simpleton Bush-whacked homeland security bullshit. Although that paranoid nonsense has given the airlines something to hide behind and allow their customer service to degrade.

United was not on time. They were not forthcoming about the reasons for not being on time. Their baggage handling was miserable. They've introduced paid meals on their flights. And their equipment on the feeder routes sucks big-time... small seats, inadequate room for carry-ons...

That company needs some help. But first they owe me some money I think I'll try to collect. Parking fees, kennel costs, an unplanned night at the Chicago Hilton. Those are the quantifiable items. The pain and suffering (heavy sigh, back of hand pressed against forehead, woe is me...), the anxiety, and the precious hours of holiday time were robbed from me by their shoddy operation and I can't get those back.

Of course I also blame George Bush. At least the fascists in the thirties made the public transportation run on time. What's the porgie dude done for us lately?