Category Archives: Life and opinion

Entries about the life of Mr Mist and his opinion on stuff.

Lock Fail

I didn’t really plan this one through …

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Challenger

Good gosh. The Challenger shuttle disaster was 25 years ago today. I remember it, oddly, because it interrupted a run of The Adventure Game off of the TV, one of my favourite shows at the time, which, for some reason, then disappeared. A bad day for space exploration, that.

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RIP ipv4

So that’s it. This year marks the end of available sets of ipv4 addresses to be given out by IANA. From this point, ISPs are going to start to feel the squeeze unless they adopt ipv6 addressing. Of course a lot of the smaller ones (or even the bigger ones) are simply constrained by their [...]

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Formally known as Starbucks

I read just now that Starbucks Coffee have removed their name from their branding logo. This is a move designed to position them to sell stuff other than coffee under their brand, but I must admit it seems odd to me. When we see their shops with this nameless logo how are we to refer [...]

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Snow

So the other week we had some snow. In fact, we had a lot of snow. More snow than I can remember for 20 odd years anyway. Everywhere was pretty white. Indeed, pretty, and white. The snow was probably 2 feet deep in places. This was the back garden – This was our street (There’s [...]

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