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When HAR was over and reality smacked me in the face again, I wanted to find a new $thing to spent my time with and get in touch with random people. This hobby became postcrossing. Postcrossing is a project which started 3 years ago and it’s about sending postcards to random people all around the world. [...]

Confusion in her eyes that says it all. She’s lost control. And she’s clinging to the nearest passer by, She’s lost control. And she gave away the secrets of her past, And said I’ve lost control again, And a voice that told her when and where to act, She said I’ve lost control again. And she turned around and took me by the [...]

Since 2001 (www.hal2001.org) I am very well aware that there is something called IPv6. And very well aware that the pool of IPv4 adresses is running out. When giving courses to new helpdesk personal at a large ISP in the Netherlands, I always warned them that IPv4 will have it’s limits…and we really need to prepare ourselves for IPv6. Well… to be honest…even myself was thinking the last years: well…right…let’s see.

But more and more reports (stories) are popping up in the blogosphere and techsites. IPv4 is running out! yes! IPv6 does suck! (serious design flaws do exist) And the worst, a lot of firmware/embedded software, often not upgradable by users, doesn’t support IPv6.

Ars Technica however has recently published a nice article about what the current state of IPv4 really is. And it doesn’t look good. Either we switch to IPv6…or switch to Carrier Grade NAT (CGN). The latter seems to be seriously sucky imho.

When I was younger I always read the columns of Francien van Westering, known in The Netherlands and in Germany because of her many cats, cat stories and cat drawings. At the time, she had seven cats, and I always told myself I wanted to have as many cats as she had, so I would [...]