Posts Tagged ‘app

The idea that blogs generate a personal brand is as old as the “blogosphere”. It’s one of those topics that rages through the blog world every few months. Inexorably the discussion winds its way to the idea that a blog is linked exclusively to the creators of its content. This makes a blog, no matter [...]

Through 2007, the number of posts I made per day/week/month decreased steadily. I know post new items 2-3 items a month, or less. After 2 years of steady entries, I just didn’t have anything to add to the conversation.
Having been an A-list groupie for this entire period, I lost touch with the self-perpetuating scene. A [...]

The music of Iceland

In: Life

3 Feb 2008

I don’t often (ever) talk about my musical taste. It is unremarkable for the most part, with flights into madness and impulsiveness.
Lately, I have discovered Icelandic music. Mainly Sigur Ros, Mum, Apparat Organ Quartet, Aniima, and (of course) Bjork. Apparently Icelandic music is all the rage, with people trying to understand how such a small [...]

So, on New Years Eve, due to the vagaries of modern air travel, the family will be spending seven hours at Sea-Tac waiting for the second leg of our trip home.
For me, this is usually not an issue, as I can huddle up in a corner with my wireless connection and while away the hours [...]

Today’s biggest victim of Black Friday appears to be Sears

Sears measurement data for the last 8 hours can be found here.
UPDATE: It gets worse for Sears.

Technorati Tags:
Grabperf, Sears, Black Friday, Web Performance

mon.itor.us, a service which also provides free Web performance measurement services, appears to be having a wee problem.

The most recent GrabPERF data on this site is available here. The issue may be corrected by the time you look at the data.
I don’t wish suffering like this on anyone. GrabPERF had it’s own 3-4 day outage [...]

I am a sucker for dogs.
It’s pretty much a global statement. Ok, excluding genetic freaks that appear on the arms of Paris Hilton and ladies who lunch.
However, the rule is: the goofier the dog, the better.
Samantha and I use the laugh factor when selecting our dogs. If we see the dog, and it makes us [...]

We got Samantha a new T-Mobile cell a few weeks back. But it came with an unwanted and expensive feature: every morning at 11:00, she receives a weather update from Windows Live Alerts.
Apparently the previous owner of the number had these alerts programmed. And of course, there is no way to shut them off because [...]

If you have been trying to send me stuff at my personal email address, it seems that Namesecure.com has decided to take it’s sweet time setting up my new email services.
Right now, if you try and send mail, the MX record reports that there is an NXDOMAIN.
I am not happy.
Technorati Tags: Namesecure, Namesecure.com, MX, [...]

Apparently our friends at NASA are sitting on a report that clearly details the true state of air safety in the United States.
NASA Sits on Air Safety Survey
I want this report, NOW!
Technorati Tags: NASA, air safety, FOIA


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Stephen Pierzchala is one of a 10-year veteran of the Web performance field who also writes on topics that interest his non-linear world-view.

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