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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 [...]
Ferrari Full Service: FAIL
In: RANTING
30 Sep 2008moar funny pictures
Full Story here.
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- Tags: F1, FAIL, Ferrari, Hamilton, Massa, pit crew, Singapore, Singapore GP, Singapore Grand Prix
WGBH – TV: Wasting airspace, again
In: Commentary| RANTING| WGBH
25 Aug 2008WBGH, again you win the contest as the most clueless PBS station in the world.
There is this small news event occurring this week, called the Democratic National Convention.
And what are you showing tonight?
John Denver, a man and his music.
Are you completely clueless?
Another year, another lack of donations from me.
When will you start showing the programs [...]
Olympics and the Concept of “Live” TV
In: Commentary| RANTING
10 Aug 2008Robert Scoble has launched a thread over on FriendFeed [here] discussing the NBC Olympics broadcast schedule and how the reality of the Internet and Social Media is changing how things are broadcast.
People are recommending the CBC feed. I would likely say the people in the UK would recommend the BBC feed. But I can tell [...]
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- Tags: corporate, jingoistic, NBC, NBC Olympics, Olympics
Wordpress Install – Installer FAIL!
In: Blogging| RANTING| Technology
6 Aug 2008So, the last post I put up simply stated that I had failed in installing Worpress 2.6 on my own server. The permalinks were messed up and it looked a lot like an issue that a lot of people were having.
But, the catch was: the problem persisted when I tried to use Wordpress 2.5.1. Hmmm…wonder [...]
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- Tags: .htaccess, apache, wordpress, wordpress 2.6
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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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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Those who saw me at the edge of the A-list (B-list? are those terms valid anymore? I am so out of touch) circle during the first wave of the blog explosion saw me flag and then fall. But where did I go? What did I do?
I left town, essentially. Mentally. I had to go down [...]
T-Mobile Dash 3G: Negative Final Impressions
In: Commentary| GSM| Mobile| RANTING
27 Aug 2009When it comes to the T-Mobile Dash 3G, I have some simple advice.
Don’t.
The longer I have this phone, the more of a clunker it becomes. My list of complaints include:
In the last 24 hours, the battery has started to drain for no apparent reason – and yes, WiFi, Bluetooth, and background apps are all off. [...]