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Archive for March, 2007
Trillian: Mystery Product
30 Mar 2007Trillian, the multi-system messenger program I use, apparently has this really cool new product in development. However, they have taken the Joost approach to releasing things: make it exclusive.
This is making me angry, and I am considering switching back to GAIM, even though I find GAIM clunky and wheezy in it’s latest version.
Trillian developers: open [...]
GrabPERF Agent: Need More Locations
27 Mar 2007My side project, GrabPERF, is looking for a few good measurement locations.
Right now, there are only five measurement locations, two of which are in my basement, on my personal Internet connection. I am hoping, through this pledge drive, to find a number of additional locations. Areas desperately needed include:
East Coast, USA
West Coast, USA
Midwest, USA
UK
Asia-Pac
Southeast Asia
Australia [...]
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- Tags: Asia, Australia, contact form, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTTP, IE, Internet, IP, ip address, it, LAN, Linux, measurement, New Zealand, Om, performance, personal, PHP, pr, Technorati, web, Web Performance, Web+performance
When you are bipolar, you get very sensitive to slight changes in your mood and surroundings. Well, I have been in a foul mood, wanting to sleep a lot. When I get like this, I check my biorhythm, just for a lark.
Yup, right on schedule.
Tags: bipolar, biorhythm
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Ugh. Out of presentation shape
In: Work
20 Mar 2007I did a six-hour presentation / training seminar today, with an encore for a second group tomorrow.
I now realize how frightfully out of practice I am.
I used to do these kinds of events all the time up until 3 years ago. Tonight, my voice is shot, I ache all over, and it feels like [...]
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- Tags: client, HTTP, IE, IM, it, Om, pr, Technorati
Sweetgrass Farm Winery Trip — March 16-19 2007
20 Mar 2007This weekend, we went to Maine and spent a wonderful time with the Bodines at the Sweetgrass Farm Winery. Things are rolling into high gear, and there is fruit in the vats, fermenting into fine wine.
I took the time to take some pictures in their old barn, and around the property.
If you like wine and [...]
Print v. Web: Which comes first?
In: Blogging| Technology
19 Mar 2007Today, I want to talk about what happens when you aggressively adopt an online strategy, but leave your print subscribers behind.
I subscribe to a great architecture and design magazine, whose name I will exclude from this discussion, with a fantastic and informative online presence. The archive and articles available to subscribers are a fantastic resource [...]
New York, New York
19 Mar 2007Taking the train down to NYC for two days of customer sessions.
If you are looking to collect money from me, I’m dead.
If you want to join me in a meal, +1.508.410.3865 or +1.508.471.3865.
Tags: New York, business trip
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Go to Maine for the weekend…
In: Life
19 Mar 2007…and the only injury of the trip happens while we are shovelling out the driveway when we get home. Cameron accidentally hit Kinnear in the face with the sharp end of the shovel.
The ironic thing: he is wearing a t-shirt that read "It’s my brother’s fault".
Tags: family, shovelling, accident, snow
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Bye-bye Vista
13 Mar 2007I have one more call to make and then I am going to destroy my system and rebuild it using the local ghost image for the Latitude D620.
Vista has been a pain in the ass, and I am glad to see it go. It was a poorly thought through OS, and it was definitely not [...]
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I am writing up a client presentation for next week, and I just realized just how flawed Internet Explorer is. Microsoft claims that the browser is standards compliant. Yet it still doesn’t support HTTP pipelining.
And the frustrating part? They won’t tell us why. I have my suspicions, which include TCP stack issues and a flawed [...]
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- Tags: browser, client, cro, Firefox, HTTP, HTTP pipelining, IE, IM, Internet, Internet Explorer, IP, Issues, it, LAN, Microsoft, Om, One, pipelining, pr, TCP, Technorati, web, Web browser, window, Windows