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Seems there was a “glitch” with the blunderphone order with TMobile.

Because I asked for, and got, a discount for being a customer for one year, the order had to be approved by a supervisor. Guess the request was stuck between the order desk and the supervisor, where it languished for 3 days.

Glad I called to check on the status.

Do the IceRocket folks want to comment on this pain and suffering?

UPDATE: As of 13:30EDT, it appears that the ailment has been resolved.

Technorati: IceRocket, GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring

IceRocket: IceRocket, GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring

In the GrabPERF system, all of the detail charts are built off of the raw data table. Now, for some insane reason, I was storing 50 days of raw data. The furthest back that any of the configured raw data graphs goes is 7 days.

I reset the data purge script to drop data older than 10 days. This should speed up queries and graph displays.

If certain users would like to keep data for longer, I could modify the drop procedure for custom data storage lengths. Just let me know if you require raw data from longer periods and I will begin development on this.

Technorati: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, curl, linux

IceRocket: GrabPERF, Web Performance, Web Performance Measurement, Web Performance Monitoring, curl, linux

If creationists think that the world was created only about 5,000 years ago, then they should not use oil. Why not? Because the ancient forests that create oil cannot exist in their world view.

This means that any electricty produced from coal, oil or natural gas also does not exist for creationists.

Maybe this is why they don’t believe that we are greenhousing our planet…

Just a thought…

Technorati: creationism, oil, natural gas, coal

IceRocket: creationism, oil, natural gas, coal

Ping-O-Matic. Weblogs.com.

Two of the sites that have seen surges in Web traffic recently.

My unsubstantiated theory is that as summer ends, Web traffic is seeing its usual surge, amplified by the new interest in blogs and Web 2.0 properties.

For the small companies who have effectively had the summer off, it’s time to re-adjust your capacity-planning estimates…upward.

Why? Rising oil prices will reduce travel. Disenchantment with movies will reduce going out. Gourmet take-home will reduce restaurant visitation. And increasing broadband access will increase demand for online services.

Be afraid…and get ready for more traffic. Lots more traffic.

Have you optimized your site for maximum performance yet?

Technorati: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

IceRocket: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis

Bring. It. On.

Walken 2008.

More Cowbell. Now.

Update: This is a hoax…but one I fully endorse.

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IceRocket: walken2008, Christopher Walken

Please set minds to Auto-Filter

Yikes!!!

Can you say capacity planning nightmare?

Technorati: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis, ping-o-matic, pingomatic

IceRocket: Web Performance, Capacity Planning, Web 2.0, SEO, traffic analysis ping-o-matic, pingomatic

Keynote Announces Settlement of Litigation

HMMMMM…missed this one the first time…bet there’s a story here…

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I have an online resume. I can get you it in several forms.

However, if you are hiring me because of what you see in that piece of paper…

I DON’T WANT TO WORK FOR YOUR COMPANY!

Lisa Haneberg posted a great article on this today.

The problem with me and my resume is that there is no way to capture what I can do or what I know on a piece of paper. I have a non-linear mind and am a technical person with an artistic temperment. I do not fit into your neat little corporate boxes. I am not org-chart friendly.

I flame most recruiters, because they haven’t taken the time to note that (and this is on all of my resumes, no matter where I post them):

1. I am a Canadian living in the US and working on an H1-B
2. I am ONLY entertaining offers from companies on the West Coast

Most recruiters are stupid, at least in my mind. They are desperately clinging to a niche where, like Wile E. Coyote, the ground on which they stand has evaporated.

The great thig is that I know the companies that I want to work for. But I also know that these companies never even look at me because their HR “process” is designed to weed out independent-minded, intelligent, experienced, non-linear thinkers. They want young, fresh mind-slaves.

Am I bitter and angry? Yeah. Why? Because every manager I have had has said the same thing to me, repeatedly: “You are great and your knowledge is astounding, but we don’t know how to use you effectively because you don’t fit into an org-chart box”.

You know what not fitting into an org-chart box has done to me career? Limited my exposure to clients, locked me out of the strategic decision-making process, prevented me from assisting with infrastructure design and assessment, and seen career-advancement promise after promise fall by the wayside.

I am looking for a company who wants me and will let me have business cards with NO TITLE ON THEM.

I am what I know, not what you, the company, tell people I do.

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Technorati: resume, human resources, Management, Organization Development, middle management, headhunters, recruiters

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