I probably won’t update again until October. Far too busy to even think right now.

• Font argument? My co-worker just said his favorites are Arial and Comic Sans. I think I just died a little when he said that. #

• At the house with some friends, checking out twitter. #

• Listening to some old NIN albums. Halo 5 now. Hope to listen to Halo 24 later today. #

I went to the speech today, and I must say, I am impressed. Douglas Merrill is a brilliant speaker, which to say the least is quite hard to find these days. At first I wanted to know why Google would want to invest over $4.5 billion in the UHF spectrum. Not long after he started speaking, I realized their reasons, it is built right into their corporate culture. Let information be free.He showed a few data slides about searches that had taken place. One of the more interesting slides was about and earthquake. Almost immediately after an earthquake on the west coast happened there was a spike in their searches several orders of magnitude greater than just one hour before. The search pointed surfers to the USGS website for more information.Dr. Merrill pointed out the spike, but then a small blip about 6 hours after the spike. What was this blip? It was the newspapers reporting about the earthquake themselves. He then said, “Reporters should be scared of the internet, new happens fast, and the internet provides information now.” I agree, even though I want to be a journalist.So, what am I to do about instant information about events? Nothing. How can I still be relevant in a world of instant information? I suppose the only answer to that is quality. Of course, if I subscribe to the thought of there only being one answer, then the Internet just won. The truth is adapt, use the web, allow information to be free, and be relevant.With all of those previous items in place, instead of people waiting for the news to come to them, they do the search, and instead of going to whatever site Google sends them to originally, you become the source Google sends you to. Oversimplified? Sure, but simple ideas are often the best as succeeding, and the hardest to attain.

• Interesting thing about IPv6 upgrading… Not the cost of the new systems, the cost of the systems you are getting rid of. #
• One of the nice things about being a mac user is when you are confronted with a packed computer lab, none of the govt types use the macs! #
• sitting at the Scott McNealy keynote. Im starting to like sun even more. #

One of the things I learned today isn’t the cost of rolling out new technology. That point is obvious. The real cost in doing any kind of upgrade is not how much you need to buy to make the rollout happen, it is how much money you have already invested in the old technology.If these investments could be turned back into cash, technology upgrades would happen much faster in larger network environments.How can this be achieved? Simply by reselling the semi-old equipment you have to organizations looking for them. The problem then is not being able to sell them, plenty of people/organizations want to buy tried and true technology. The problem now is finding a market in which to make this trade effective. Ebay isn’t doing it.A new web interface, one which allows for credits. Trade based on actual costs. Sure that Cisco switch may have cost you $8,000 but it isn’t worth that now. Finding a way to accurately appraise the value of used, but still useful technology is a market that hasn’t fully been tapped.Anybody know of a way to do this now, or am I missing sites that already accommodate my wish-list of needs?

Sitting here at the cyber cafe @ Air Force Information Technology Conference 2007 (also known to the students as the main computer lab, but whatevs!). I am about to go into a seminar about pushing out IPV6 updates and impacts regarding different OSes, routers, switches, firewalls, and of course older systems.
One of my main goals here at AFITC is to try to learn how the government is performing massive updates such as this. The Air Force has a deadline of 4th quarter 2008 to implement IPV6 as the standard. This is aggresive, and quite frankly, I am glad they are doing this because of the benefits of IPV6.
I hope to have some pictures, and maybe some other forms of media about this event later today. Also trying to publish an article in the AUM paper.
After the IPV6 session, I go into a session about Government grade WiMax. Implementation, equipment and Network Topography. Should be interesting to say the least. We’ll see how much information I am allowed to leave with that can be published. Until then…

• Just got my registration for the AFITC in Montgomery #
• Largest Military IT Conference! Excited to hear from Douglas Merrill, Google’s CIO. #
• Well, Bonds just did it. 756. #
• Weird, now they are playing the game again, after the ceremony, as if nothing ever happened. #

• Had a great day of throwing horseshoes. I scored 8 ringers! #