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Archive for November, 2007
Cyber Monday: Tiger Direct today’s victim
In: Life
26 Nov 2007Want to follow all the Holiday Retail Fun? Check out the GrabPERF Black Friday Dashboard! Follow the Web performance of your favorite retailer all the time!
New and updated for 2008!
This morning, Tiger Direct effectively imploded.
Bad day.
UPDATE: Looks like they found the solution to their problem.
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Black Friday: Sears
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
23 Nov 2007Today’s biggest victim of Black Friday appears to be Sears
Sears measurement data for the last 8 hours can be found here.
UPDATE: It gets worse for Sears.
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GrabPERF: Black Friday Begins Early
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
23 Nov 2007Look ma: Macy’s is already too busy.
Yeah. Let the fun begin.
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Off to…Columbus?
In: Life
13 Nov 2007Ok, for my birthday (November 14), I am going to Columbus, OH.
Could be worse.
Couldn’t it?
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mon.itor.us Outage
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
5 Nov 2007mon.itor.us, a service which also provides free Web performance measurement services, appears to be having a wee problem.
The most recent GrabPERF data on this site is available here. The issue may be corrected by the time you look at the data.
I don’t wish suffering like this on anyone. GrabPERF had it’s own 3-4 day outage [...]
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Larry. To hell with them all. Elect Larry.
3 Nov 2007I am a sucker for dogs.
It’s pretty much a global statement. Ok, excluding genetic freaks that appear on the arms of Paris Hilton and ladies who lunch.
However, the rule is: the goofier the dog, the better.
Samantha and I use the laugh factor when selecting our dogs. If we see the dog, and it makes us [...]
The best times on a business trip…
In: Life
3 Nov 2007Part of the problem with making a lot of East to West trips across the US is that the flights back are a nightmare for timing. You either lose most of a day or have to take a red-eye.
Well, taking the red-eye has only one advantage: you get to camp in the airline lounge and [...]