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The Twitter Debate – YATPBP
In: GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
31 May 2008Yes, it’s YATPBP (Yet Another Twitter Performance Blog Post).
About 10 days ago, I turned GrabPERF loose on Twitter. Now before you accuse this of crippling the service and bringing it to its knees, realize that GrabPERF simply requests a document over HTTP about two times a minute. No additional requests are made for images and [...]
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- Tags: GrabPERF, performance, twitter, Web Performance
It’s the network, dummy
In: RANTING| Technology| Web Performance
8 May 2008In the GigaOm blog today, Allen Leinwand puts up a monstrous wake-up call to all the hip and cool Web 2.0 companies out there: Your apps run across the Internet [here].
I have spent 9 years investigating, diagnosing, and validating the Web performance issues of companies. I can tear the Web performance data of a site [...]
Xobni Public
In: RANTING| Technology
5 May 2008If you’ve come here looking for Xobni invites, don’t bother. It’s open to all now.
Go make your Outlook less excruciating.
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Xobni Invites
In: Life
3 May 2008Got six of them. FIFO.
Gone!
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My first week with the Blackberry Pearl 8100
In: Life
3 May 2008Last week a colleague, who had been forced by corporate policy to switch to a Verizon Treo, donated his Blackberry Pearl 8100 to me.
It was a Cingular/ATT locked phone. I unlocked it, stuck my T-Mobile card into it, and upgraded my plan to the unlimited data plan. I the MIS department at work add an [...]
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- Tags: blackberry, blackberry 8100, blackberry pearl, GSM, opinion, review, smartphone
To dream…yeah, right
In: Life
1 May 2008Well, back to dreaming.
It (very briefly) looked like I might be able to get my MacBook Pro (a constant whining theme here). But, again, it fell through. Reality kicked in and the money went to where it was really needed.
Maybe I’ll score a consulting gig or something to help with this…
Leads on cheap MacBook Pros [...]
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- Tags: dreams, MacBook Pro
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