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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but I can’t think of a single one of my kids story books that has ads. “Bear stays up for Christmas,” “llama llama nighty night,” and “if you give a mouse a cookie” amongst several dozen more come to mind that I don’t recall anything resembling an ad in.

    Shows, yes, all the time.



  • My favorite IRS notices are the scary you owe us letters that always say somewhere in normal font “if you have already paid or started a payment plan you can disregard this notice.” Sometimes you can get those letters months after paying. To be fair, my taxes are complicated, but boy do they really need Congress to give them money to modernize their systems.






  • I mean, yes and no. For an individual or individual systems? No, it’s not hard. But I used to oversee a WAN with multiple large sites each with their own complex border, core, and campus plant infrastructure. When you have an environment like that with complex peerings, and onsite and cloud networks it’s a bit trickier to introduce dual stack addressing down to the edge. You need a bunch of additional tooling to extend your BGP monitoring, ability to track asynchronous route issues, add route advertisements etc. when you have a large production network to avoid breaking, it’s more of a nail biter, because it’s not like we have a dev network that is a 1-1 of our physical environment. We have lab equipment, and a virtual implementation of our prod network, but you can only simulate so much.

    That being said, we did implement it before most of the rest of the world, in part because I wanted to sell most of our very large IPv4 networks while prices are rising. But it was a real engineering challenge and I was lucky to have the team and resources and time to get it done when it wasn’t driving an urgent, short timeline need.



  • I read the UCC quite a bit during my business law classes. Years later and I testified as an expert in a criminal case and while waiting for a procedural hearing, some nutter starts going off to the judge about how his signature on some court paperwork doesn’t count and starts citing sections from the UCC. Being criminal court, the judge and attorneys didn’t recognize the references and lectured the guy about wasting time. Later I told one of the attorneys he was quoting the UCC, which has absolutely no bearing on criminal proceedings. We had a laugh, good times.

    Google gets these folks into so much trouble.