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Welcome Back!
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23 Sep 2008If you can see this post, the DNS system has finally propagated my new host information out to the Web, and you have reached me at the new server, located at BlueHost.
After my LinkedIN request last night, I got two separate rcommendations for BlueHost, both from folks I highly respect.
Let me know what you think.
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Web Performance: Outages and Reputation
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22 Sep 2008In the last few months, I have talked on a couple of occasions on how an outage can affect a brand, be it personal or corporate [here and here].
Yesterday my servers experienced a 11-hour network outage due to a broken upstream BGP route.
It’s sometimes scary to see how worn the cobbler’s shoes are.
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Which Multi-Protocol IM Client do you use?
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12 Aug 2008[poll id="2"]
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Visual Beauty
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14 Sep 2006As I re-align my processing, I have discovered that the beauty of photographs really holds me. Many of my Bloglines subscriptions are now streams from Flickr. One photographer in particular that I have found captures images of power is Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir. There is something very powerful in her images, and she lives in one of [...]
Brad Feld: Used Mercedes Dealer
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8 Sep 2006So, with all the prognosticating about what Brad Feld is going to do next, I think I know what his next gig is.
Used Mercedes Dealer, specializing in cars with slight electrical issues.
Here’s one of the models he has in his Kevlar and Nomex lined showroom.
Ignore the flames.
Technorati Tags: Brad+Feld, Amy+Feld, Mercedes, Fire, Mobius+Ventures, Niall+Kennedy
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My wife thinks I have a problem
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7 Sep 2006This is what I found when I dumped out my pen/pencil case this morning. Does anyone out there find this unusual? I don’t.
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Apparently "Canadian" is translated into "Strafe and Kill" in American pilot slang
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4 Sep 2006Canadian soldier killed, others wounded in ‘friendly fire’
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. warplanes mistakenly strafed Canadian troops fighting Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, killing one soldier and seriously wounding five on Monday in an operation that NATO claims has also left 200 insurgents dead.
This is not the first “friendly-fire” incident involving US pilots and Canadian [...]
Never Eat Alone: The Introvert’s Review
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27 Aug 2006I sat down and finally read my copy of Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi. Well, I agonizingly got my way through 80% of the book before I threw it across the room in disgust.
What a load of crap.
There might be a message in the book somewhere. But the book is mostly about Mr. Ferrazzi’s [...]
GrabPERF: GZIP Performance Experiment Revisited
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23 Aug 2006A few years ago, I wrote an article on how GZIP compression improved Web performance. Don Marti at the Linux Journal was a great editor, and eventually, the article ended up in the online version of the Magazine.
At the time, I used Ian Holsman’s webperf.org (now renamed ITScales) to capture the data. Now that I [...]
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Performancing Extension: Trying something new
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8 Aug 2006Since I started using the Performancing Firefox extension, it seems that Technorati takes a while to find me. FInally figured out that I haven’t enabled pings.
So this is a test post to see if the ping function works correctly.
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