Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
Homeland Stupidity is great and reminding us that the security and intelligence community in the United States is insecure and of questionable intelligence.
The military intelligence unit responsible for spying on Americans had to evacuate its Fort Meade, Md., offices Friday after a six-alarm fire broke out.
A fire broke out shortly after 3 p.m. on the [...]
In: RANTING
19 Aug 2006I’m with Kevin Burton on this.
The more restrictions they place on air travel the more our economy will suffer – which means the terrorists win.
Technorati Tags: Terrorism, capitalism, ryanair, economic+terrorism, relative+victory, Political+capital, politics
In: GrabPERF
29 Oct 2005At 2AM EDT Oct 30, 2005, it will become 1AM EST Oct 30, 2005. This shift will take us from GMT -4 to GMT -5.
As always, hang onto your hats, as I have no idea how the time change will affect the graphing in GrabPERF. My theory is that there should be double measurements for [...]
In: smp
6 Oct 2005Dear Level3:
Your homepage is full of useless empty spaces, including a very large screen full of empty space after the server response. Have you not heard of HTTP Compression?
At least I know you are using what used to be called ColdFusion to manage your content; ColdFusion is notorious for leaving large gaping holes in a [...]
In: smp
1 Aug 2005We went to the Cape today with no map and no plan.
Hmmm…rampant capitalism at work. Now I know why I never wanted to spend a lot of time there.
Are there any places on the Cape that don’t force you to break out your wallet just to breathe?
Technorati: cape cod
IceRocket: cape cod
In: smp
24 Jul 2005Via GapingVoid
Been there; have the scars.
In: smp
15 Jul 2005Met up with David Parmet for lunch in Lexington Centre today.
I even got to touch the infamous Waterfield Cargo Bag. Verdict on the bag: Sexy.
Great stories about Hugh Macleod and Thom Mahon, as well as the madness that is called marketing.
And lunch was…well, it was Bertucci’s.
Technorati: David Parmet, Hugh Macleod, Thom Mahon, Waterfield Cargo
In: RANTING
11 Jul 2005Karl:
I hear you’ve done a lot of good work for the Bush Cabal over the last eight years. I mean, you turned John McCain’s name to mud, you got the weasel…errr, President re-elected, you’ve controlled the media more effectively than Ron Ziegler.
However, when the White House decided to turn on Joseph Wilson, you volunteered to [...]
In: smp
6 Jul 2005I have discovered a little secret of Linux today: tc. The Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control project (here) allows you to shape traffic in any way that you want. In most cases, it is used in a situation where a multi-homed Linux box is used as firewall/router.
I have activated it on my Web server, [...]