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Archive for April, 2007
If you need me, I’ll be dead…or in Tucson, whichever comes first
In: Work
20 Apr 2007I’ll be in Tucson for work next all next week, staying at the supposedly luxurious Loews Ventana Canyon Resort.
Tags: Work, Loews Hotels, Ventana Canyon, Tucson
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New Agent Location: Zurich, Switzerland
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
20 Apr 2007Many thanks to Otis Gospodnetic of Simpy for putting me in contact with Benjamin Reitzammer. Benjamin has graciously set up the GrabPERF measurement script on his server in Zurich.
Now that the Europeans have a growing presence on the GrabPERF Network, we need some locations in the US and Asia-Pacific.
Tags: GrabPERF, Simpy, Benjamin Reitzammer, measurement agent, [...]
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- Tags: Asia, Asia-Pacific, blog, Europe, GrabPERF, HTTP, IM, IP, it, LAN, measurement, Om, performance, pr, server, Switzerland, Technorati, web, Web Performance, Web+performance
Nigerian / 419 Scams: People are greedy
In: RANTING
20 Apr 2007Ian Holsman was standing in the bank, when he overheard a woman getting a bank draft to send to the Netherlands to claim her treasure. [here]
Avarice, it is thy failing.
Stupidity is pretty high on the list, too.
Tags: Nigerian scams, 419 scams, greed, avarice, stupidity
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- Tags: bank, HTTP, IM, it, LAN, Om, pr, Technorati, The Netherlands
New Measurement Location: Gothenburg Sweden
In: GrabPERF
18 Apr 2007Thanks to the generosity of Henrik Sjostrand of Netvouz, there is now a measurement location up and running in Gothenburg Sweden.
You will find it listed in the data as Gothenburg Sweden #1.
I have had a few other parties expressing an interest in hosting a measurement agent, but there is always room for more measurement locations! [...]
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- Tags: data, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTTP, IE, it, measurement, Om, PHP, pr, run, Sweden, Technorati, tv
Pete Townshend said it best…
In: Bipolar
18 Apr 2007I went back to my motherI said, "I’m crazy ma, help me."She said, "I know how it feels son,‘Cos it runs in the family."
The Real Me, Quadrophenia
Tags: Quadrophenia, the who, Pete Towshend, bipolar
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Boston Marathon: Tom Longboat
In: Life
12 Apr 2007The Boston Marathon is this weekend, in case you live in a cave. In honour of this event, the CBC has a great story about the man who won the 1907 running: Tom Longboat. [here]
Tags: Tom Longboat, Boston Marathon
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Leadholder Lust
9 Apr 2007Some would call it old school. I call it classic.
I love pencils. They have a depth of emotion that you can’t get with any pen. But the highest standard in industrial pencils are not the 0.5mm mechanical pencils that everyone uses. No, it’s the 2mm leadholder.
I first used these in my drafting overview in Grade [...]
Caran D’Ache Fixpencil: Where do you buy them?
In: RANTING
9 Apr 2007I live in the Boston area. I want to buy one (1) Caran D’Ache Fixpencil 2mm leadholder.
Not hard, right?
The only place I can find them is from an online store in Switzerland.
Help?
Tags: Caran D’Ache, Fixpencil, leadholder, 2mm, Fixpencil 2
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Joost Sucks…CPU and Bandwidth
5 Apr 2007Got my invite to Joost today. Downloaded the app and tried to use it.
Channel selection is lame.
Response is slow.
And even on my reasonably powerful laptop, the memory, CPU and network usage went through the roof.
Yup. Uninstall.
Tags: Joost
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Boston Verizon Measurement Agents Retired
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
4 Apr 2007This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents.
The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old Pentium [...]
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- Tags: Boston, connectivity, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTTP, IM, IP, Issues, it, leave, Linux, Mac, measurement, Om, One, performance, performance issues, performance measurement, PHP, pr, run, Technorati, tv, Verizon, web, Web Performance, Web+performance
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