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Archive for October, 2006
London, HO!
In: Life
31 Oct 2006On Friday night, I am getting on a BA flight from Logan to Heathrow to work out of our London office for a week. I love going to London, as it’s the only major city I feel comfortable moving around in without a car.
Besides work, highlights include the Victoria and Albert Museum, and possibly the [...]
Web Performance: Optimizing Page Load Time
In: Web Performance
30 Oct 2006Aaron Hopkins posted an article detailing all of the Web performance goodness that I have been advocating for a number of years.
To summarize:
Use server-side compression
Set your static objects to be cacheable in browser and proxy caches
Use keep-alives / persistent connections
Turn your browsers’ HTTP pipelining feature on
These ideas are not new, and neither are the finding [...]
What do you mean you don’t think this way?
29 Oct 2006One of the lengthy conversations I have had with my wife as I work my way through understanding how my bipolar works and affects my life focused on how I think, and see the world.
I am just now coming to terms with the fact that the filters I process my world through are radically different than [...]
Since August of this year, I have been exploring the insides of my mind in greater detail. If you read this blog regularly, you are pretty likely aware of the fluctuations in my mood, and the rationality of my behaviour.
If you get the chance, find and watch The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive hosted [...]
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Fire? What Fire? The flames, smoke and fire engines are part of a cunning training exercise.
22 Oct 2006Homeland Stupidity is great and reminding us that the security and intelligence community in the United States is insecure and of questionable intelligence.
The military intelligence unit responsible for spying on Americans had to evacuate its Fort Meade, Md., offices Friday after a six-alarm fire broke out.
A fire broke out shortly after 3 p.m. on the [...]
Kevin Tillman: And just how do you justify Iraq again?
In: RANTING
22 Oct 2006Kevin Tillman, the brother of the late Pat Tillman, has written an essay that will make it hard for anyone to justify Iraq.
How can the Rumsfeld, Rice, Cheney, Rove, and Bush argue their way out of this essay?
Remember, the Gettysburg Address took less than 2 minutes to deliver.
Pass it on.
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Yet another stationery 12-step program drop-out
In: Life
21 Oct 2006Traveling Journal Kit – contents
Originally uploaded by junquegrrl.
Ummm…and I thought I had a problem!
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Tomorrow: OHIO!
17 Oct 2006Flying JetBlue into Columbus tomorrow to see a client in the Cincinnati are on Thursday.
Not that anyone ever checks in, but if GrabPERF goes poof, it may be a while before I get to it.
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The Office Smells
17 Oct 2006Either I have lost my mind or the building has become truly evil.
Today, the air in my office is saturated with the small you can only find in an airplane bathroom.
You all know the smell. It is one of the most unique shared experiences humans can have.
It’s evil. And it’s everywhere.
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Web compression: Oh, the irony!
In: Web Performance
11 Oct 2006Well, the irony of this is painful.
I went with 1&1 as the hosting location for my personal domains, including WebPerformance.org.
One of the things that I preach there is the use of compression.
Guess what? 1&1 doesn’t use Web compression on their servers.
Ugh.
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