If you’ve got a Mac with a built in iSight camera (and most Macs come with those, now-a-days, except for a Mac Mini or Mac Pro), then you’ve more than likely got Skype installed.  It is probably one of (if not THE) most popular way to communicate with friends and family over the internet. Skype to Skype web and video calls are free.  Its an awesome way to stay in touch, especially if you have relatives that live quite a distance away from you.

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Have you ever heard of Kioky?  No?  Neither have we until recently and they need your help – to give them a Kickstarter.com kick start of $15,000 (GOAL).  We all know how difficult it is to properly apply a screen protector.  Kioky makes it easy.  However…they may not be able to make it to market without your help!  With only 3 days left to go, the project will be funded only if $15,000 of pledges are received by Sunday, February, 6, 2011 @ 3:51PM EST.

It’s been snowing here in Dallas. 

Even though government offices and schools are closed, much of retail is open – yes, you can still get a computer at Micro Center.  I received one of the oddest emails from a client:

I THINK MY COMPUTER IS CHEATING ON ME IN SOLITAIRE.

That made the little gears in my head start to turn..how do you solve a problem like that?  Then it finally dawned on me – CHEAT BACK!  By simply holding down the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT buttons while clicking on the deck, you’ll flip 1 card instead of 3!  Now you have a much higher chance at winning this addicting break time game.  Have fun!

According to Network World, an Asian company recently snatched the last two address blocks which marks the total depletion of the IP pool.  So, what’s next?  The world has a couple of options.  We can roll out advanced and more complex networks utilizing IPv4 or we can go iPv6.  Of course, as we have more and more hosts (computers,  iPods, iPads, etc.) a jump to IPv6 is now necessary.  I see it as a hybrid deployment.  We’ll still see IPv4 around for a long time and it most likely will be the major network backbones that switch to IPv6 and then smaller networks stemmed from the larger networks via IPv4.  Guess it’s time for me to learn hex to be able to calculate IPv6 addresses.  IPv4 using binary was just plain easy in terms of calculating subnet masks and the such.  There truly is nothing new under the sun…it’s just the same thing that gets a refresh and we have to learn it all over again.  This means new jobs if the existing people refuse to learn (and hence get laid off) or retraining and adding of this specific skillset to network admins to remain competitive.  Anyone want to try to remember Google’s IPv6 address as pictured above?  I personally would rather remember 74.125.227.48 but times are a-changing….