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Archive for November, 2008
The GrabPERF Black Friday Dashboard is done for another year and there were two performance victims that suffered the most at the hands of the onslaught of bargain-hunters in the area of Web performance.
Some caveats that I need to mention about the GrabPERF measurement methodology.
Only the base HTML file of each site is measured.
Only the [...]
Once again, the Grabperf Black Friday Dashboard is up and running!
GrabPERF Black Friday Online Retailer Performance Dashboard
Check out your favorite retailer or suggest one we missed!
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Flying back from SFO after a long and frustrating week introduced me to a new rule that UAL gate staff have been asked to start enforcing. Apparently, my Premier status, which I realize is the lowest of the frequent-flyer levels, means even less now than it did in the past.
Over my career, I had settled [...]
It’s November 14 2008. Charles Windsor is 60 today.
Forty – Oh yeah?
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GrabPERF: FiOS and BitTorrent – Don’t Play Nice
13 Nov 2008I fired up the Boston FIoS measurement location today after a couple of days off, and found that suddenly FIoS doesn’t like the BitTorrent.
The line of purple dots all indicate measurements that reported an error code. All of those measurements come from Boston FiOS. See the real-time graph here.
Accident? Design? That I cannot comment on. [...]
GrabPERF: Three New Measurement Locations
In: Uncategorized
12 Nov 2008In the last 24 hours, thanks to the help of some willing volunteers, GrabPERF has seen the addition of three new measurement locations:
Dallas, TX (USA)
Virginia (USA)
London, UK
All of these location have been graciously provided by the team at e-planning.
Thanks to all of you who volunteer your machines and bandwidth for this project.
As always, we are [...]
Two Weeks with the MacBook
In: Technology| The Web| macbook
3 Nov 2008My new MacBook arrived two weeks ago, and I felt that I had spent enough time with it to actually make some useful comments on the good, the bad, and the headbangingly frustrating.
The Finder
Dear Apple: Shoot the Finder development team. Thanks.
I have switched to Path Finder as a Finder replacement. Truly the finder is one [...]
Why Terms Matter: Consultant v. SME v. Evangelist
In: Commentary| Work| social media
26 Nov 2008The term consultant is bandied about so much in this new economy that it has lost it’s meaning. Wikipedia defines a consultant as
A consultant (from the Latin consultare means “to discuss” from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides advice in a particular area of expertise….
A consultant [...]