Katie Price splits from Alex Reid

Anyway onto more interesting things in that we are moving (again)... We knew the place we have now was only short term until we could find somewhere permanent, thankfully the new place is only just down the road (literally about 200 yards) so at least we won't rack up 180 miles on 16 or so trips... I'm hoping to get some of Lauren's friends helping as well as the two teenagers because they were conspicuously missed in the last move, which won't happen again....because I nearly did myself a mischief the last move, way too much lifting over too long a period...

Where we live now is hideously expensive to run heating wise at nearly £100 a week in heating oil and what with the cold snaps we've had recently I'll be glad to see the back of it, not to mention the endless Himalayan stairs upto our bedroom on the top floor....

Xboxboy won't be with us for much longer he will have moved onto more exciting things in the Army, so our family is shrinking in the near future, he's going to army fitness twice a week to build up his stamina for his selection, I think he's beginning to regret his sedentary lifestyle over the past few years....ahhh well

The sullen one has had her date for her tonsils out but she has to wait six weeks, which is a good thing really because she has raging toothache and has been to the dentist today (that and another one has to be taken out to allow for a brace) obviously too many teeth... although she's going to a Swansea clinic to have them out because dentists freak her out... so it's a rubber mallet to the back of the head and a pair of molegrips.... if only she knew how much more brutal they are when the patient is out cold, she'd opt for an injection any day...

Andrea is off to Helsby Half marathon this weekend, I'm dropping her off in Newtown and her dad is picking her up there and taking her up north...and all three of them are running it that being Andrea, Roger and Dorothy.... myself and the kids are going over to a friends house and I'm fixing their computer and having a few vino's (much more civilised)

FOMO boy still hasn't ridden his new bike he got at Christmas because he refuses to wear a bicycle helmet....(so uncool apparently...of course being in hospital with a smashed in skull or dead is way cooler) it's something he isn't going to win... they never do win anything these days.... you'd think they would have got that by now

Getting Beasted

Xbox boy is having his first beasting today, on the first part of his Army selection... he has to run 1.5 miles in 11 minutes which for somebody who's only exercise since leaving school has been running for a bus when late for work or flicking his thumbs to "call of duty" on the Xbox...

I'm sure he'll do ok he's a long streak of lanky bacon, fairly fit.... at least I hope he is... Andrea took him out the other day at the pace he wanted to run at and he came back quite a bit knackered, and that was at 12 minutes to do the 1.5 miles, but I guess he didn't have the big bad beasting bloke shouting at him (which he will have to get used to during basic training)...

Anyway I'm really proud of him having finally made a decision that will change his life for the better... but he's far from out of the woods yet, he's got a long way to go before he can call himself a soldier.... but I'm sure he'll make it.

Andrea joined another running club last night called TROTS based in St Clears, it makes sense really she had a long way to travel to go to her other club in Newcastle Emlyn and being much closer to the St Clears club it just made sense to join them. Anyway she really enjoyed last night even though it bucketed down for most of her run.

I'm suffering from a touch of post viral fatigue after my wrestle with the swine flu virus, I was shattered yesterday I could hardly keep my eyes open....I've got to say I wouldn't wish it on anybody it is a really nasty Flu... the biggest problem I had was trying to sleep at night and when I was coughing every half hour to the point of nearly vomiting it's not a pleasant experience nor is it easy to get any shut eye.

The rest of the family are ok, Freya started playschool last week and she seems to be enjoying it, although we are getting a bit of attitude off her from time to time but nothing we can't handle.... she has the most delightful turn of phrase such as "conkernuts" which of course is coconuts and "sosseridges" which of course is "sausages".

She has such a vivid imagination and likes nothing better than to get her doctor kit out and ask "are you poorly?" ..followed by.."I said...are you poorly daddy?"... then she insists on using her plastic stethoscope on you with the V of the stethoscope pointing up wards on top of her head... she then proceeds to remove bizarre things from your body with a spoon or any other implement she can find in her doctors case, the other night she pulled a butterfly from my thigh and announced "there you go Daddy all better now I've taken the butterfly out of your leg"

She is quite barking mad that little girl but an absolute darling with it.....

Bring out yer dead......

You may have noticed that I have placed an IPv4 counter on my blog... What does this mean ? Well are you sitting comfortably ? 

Then I'll begin.....

A long long time ago (around 1970) when the internet was but a wee spark of an idea in some  dope smoking Unix guru's hush puppy wearing head. 

(hey man that's  just a galactic idea...I mean whoa computers talking to each other over thousands or miles ....far out man groovy baby .... pass the joint....) 

They didn't envisage that it would be only slightly less popular than breathing or water in the years to come.....Consequently they only thought that the addressing scheme used by most sites now would be more than fine.... and in it's time who would have thought it would take off the way it did ? 

Currently it's defined in something called Internet Protocol version 4 or IPv4. This has an address space of about four billion entries..... Yup and in a time honoured fashion just like those near sighted hippies of silicon valley underestimated how many bits would be required to count up to midnight on 31st December 1999.... we've hit the same digital wall as the millennium bug but on a much much much larger scale... 

We are quickly running out of numbers.....

Unless you've had your head stuck in the sand for the past 3 or 4 years you might have heard something about IPv6 which doesn't have this  trivially small 4 billion limit.... 

So how many addresses can IPv6 handle ? 

The short answer is: lots. The long answer is: an unimaginably huge amount. in fact a mind blowingly mahoosive number that makes you reach for the paracetamol each time you try to get your head around it....

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It has been calculated that the IPv6 address space can handle about 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses. That's enough for every person on the planet to have trillions of IP addresses without any fear of that pool being exhausted. Or to put it another way that's "about" one IP address for every square millimetre of the Earth's surface (including under the oceans).... 

So at some point this year there will probably be some media outcry that the internet will grind to a halt.... and that McDonalds will go out of business (one can hope) .....much in the same way jet planes were going to fall out of the sky on New Years Day 2000..... However the truth is that it might get a bit patchy....some sites won't be accessible if they switch over to IPv6 and you're still on IPv4...until they iron out the crinkles......

This means ISP's will have to get their fingers out and upgrade all their equipment to support IPv6 and in the interim we (meaning ADSL and Cable users) will probably be NAT'ed (network address translation) which will mean some bit of fancy kit will translate the IPv6 numbers into IPv4 numbers and vice versa .... although eventually we will have to migrate to native IPv6....

I can see a bumpy ride on the horizon :)