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this is obviously a big focus for me on the work front particularly given some of the speaking engagements as of late.  hence, the egg on my face when i realized i’d missed the original announcement that google is supporting IPv6 for app-engine. then i was catching up on some news today and i caught the updated announcement that indicated they were expanding the support IPv6 support and enabling better testing facilities.  additionally, they announced that they were providing a means for folks to support this outside the whitelisted DNS servers. kudos. this brings a host of applications (pun slightly intended) into the IPv6 domain with little or no requirements / on the part of the app developers. it’s just there in the infrastructure.

nicely done googles.

of particular hilarity is the XTC quotation.  turnabout certainly seems like fair play to me.

a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away i was perversely interested in audio/video codecs and the xiph program.  now it turns out that google is funding an ARM optimized implementation of the theora protocol, aka Theorarm. personally, i find this interesting given the opportunity to move  video codec function to lower power general purpose CPUs and alleviating some of the hardware requirements for speedy video decode without requiring offload hardware.

interesting sponsorship of an open source program.

my latest obsession has been elimination of base weight from my pack for travel and backpacking.  this resulted in the purchase of a postal scale and a bit of time wasted weighing every item i might possibly be tempted to stick into pack and the creation of an overly complex spreadsheet to estimate base pack weight for my wife, stepson and myself.

i was unable able resist the replacement of our existing stainless steel sierra mugs with a shiny titanium sierra cup from snow peak.  unfortunately, i can’t seem to purchase this locally and a purchase direct from snow peak was the result.  (such are obsessions) this was an entirely painless purchase experience, but i was surprised at how heavy the package that arrived was.  my titanium sierra cups had been co-packed with a 2 lb. glossy printed catalog.  WTF?

i’m increasingly impressed with the impact of the seemingly small optimization of adding flashblock to my browser (chrome | firefox).  things are just snappier. life is just a little bit more efficient and my browser interaction experience, just that much better.  sometimes it really just is the little things.

i honestly don’t quite know what to make of this.  i realize that there’s a strong stigma to showing up in a publication such as this.  but wouldn’t purchasing this also imply that you know the folks that are going to be in there? the tag … “Now Even MORE Registered SEX OFFENDERS in Your Area” seems to indicate that this is a good thing, or at least a selling point.  odd.

for those interested in the answers to  ”Match the Perp to the Crime”, it’s B, C, A.  though, i’m really not quite certain as to what masterbating in the public library consists of.