June 6 is World IPv6 Launch day. It comes roughly a year after World IPv6 Day, which ultimately helped raise awareness of IPv6 implementation. Launch day aims to push real IPv6 connectivity to the masses, with quite a few ISPs and online entities flipping the switch for customers.

The personal identification number. Boy, doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? My very own number, designed to uniquely identify me as myself to a system. A secure four-digit identifier. No one would ever know.

Other than their rock-solid security, what else about PINs makes me giddy? They are so stunningly great that I will never, ever forget them. Even though I spat out those four numbers years ago when I opened that account, purchased that first cell phone, or signed up for that service, they are all of such value that I will remember them 'til my death.

The flooding in Thailand which resulted in hard drive shortages last year has undoubtedly been felt by computer enthusiasts and businesses alike.

In June of 2011, I purchased three one-terabyte hard drives for my home NAS. One of those drives has been producing flakey checksums during my weekly ZFS scrub. So, I curiously perused my purchase history on Newegg to remember how much I had paid for them. The three drives totaled just over $200 — not bad.

Wikipedia and some other web services will be going dark tomorrow in protest of SOPA and PIPA. When that happens, and if you find yourself affected, please take the time to read those bills as well as educated legal interpretations of them. Don't take the media's interpretation (in favor or against) for granted. The best thing you can do is make an effort to understand how they may change the Internet, the most powerful platform for the expression of free speech that has ever existed. Please educate yourself.

Trevor