Japan

So the situation in Japan is still completely crazy. Scant reliable information is coming from the nuclear energy team, leading to confusion as to what the dangers are, and how many people should be evacuating. If you look at some of the aerial photos on the NY times website you can see some of the external damage, which gives a good indication as to why nuclear leaks may be happenig. It seems, though, that the damage has been compounded by other issues, such as generators running out of fuel and objects sticking open – things that might have been avoided. Really, though, you have to admire the people who have stayed behind at the reactor site to fight the issues, because they are really putting themselves on the line. The entire event is really rather extreme.

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WordPress 3.0.5 released

WordPress 3.0.5 has been released. This appears to be generally a security fix release, fixing some privilege escalation issues. The text of the release announcement can be seen here. You should upgrade if you can’t wait around for 3.1, which should be coming real soon now, hopefully.

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Kubica out for season

Renault driver Rober Kubica is out for this year’s F1 season – and possibly longer – after a serious crash in a rally in Italy. The crash left him with multiple fractures and he had to undergo extensive surgery on his right hand, which was partially severed in the accident. He’s due to have even more surgery on the other fractures to his right-hand side. It’s currently expected that he’ll be out for at least a few months, though less optimistic reports suggest the recovery could take a year, so currently it’s difficult to tell. His team have yet to decide on who will be the replacement driver.

In other news, a man previously fined for owning or training an animal for fighting died after being stabbed by a knife attached to a fighting cock. That’s irony for you.

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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 carriers. My ISP is apparently going to start using IPv6 over the year.

Farewell IPv4, I will miss the days when you could remember an IP address.

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