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Pierzchala.com: Re-Design
1 Apr 2007I have been playing with my personal site, Pierzchala.com, and finally set the re-design loose last night. The last time I touched the layout was 2002 (I think), and it was all done in tables. The new design uses CSS, and makes controlling the layout so easy.
And, thanks to Matt Mullenweg, the header logo rotates [...]
Flickr: Escaping Golden BC
In: Life
17 Jan 2007I spent my entire life escaping from Golden. It’s a much different place, 20 years and one massive ski resort development later.
But, as you got on the Trans-Canada Highway to leave, hopefully for the last time as a 25 year-old grad school dropout, you looked over your left shoulder, and saw this.
[Photo: raarky]
An eerie beauty…the [...]
Dosage: “Well, it’s . . . um . . . it’s green."
In: Bipolar
16 Nov 2006For a 38-year old man with no outward symptoms of a physical ailment, my daily drug/supplement regimen is one that would leave many of my peers stunned.
The problem is, that like most people who are bipolar, I take a cocktail to try and balance out the variety and multitude of symptoms and effects I undergo. [...]
Since August of this year, I have been exploring the insides of my mind in greater detail. If you read this blog regularly, you are pretty likely aware of the fluctuations in my mood, and the rationality of my behaviour.
If you get the chance, find and watch The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive hosted [...]
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Aren’t tracer rounds illegal?
In: Life
6 Oct 2006So, after 6 years of controlling and managing my own Web server, I have handed responsibility over to 1 & 1. I wish I could say that there was a really good reason why I’ve done this, but frankly, it’s because I don’t need a lot of oooommmmph for my personal domains (they run happily [...]
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This paper is an extension of the work done for another article that highlighted the performance benefits of retrieving uncompressed and compressed objects directly from the origin server. I wanted to add a proxy server into the stream and determine if proxy servers helped improve the performance of object downloads, and by how much.
Using the [...]
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Apparently "Canadian" is translated into "Strafe and Kill" in American pilot slang
In: Uncategorized
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 [...]
Caching for Performance Article Posted
24 Aug 2006A few years ago, I wrote an article ablout how to best set up Web server cache-control messages to take advantage of this free form of content distribution. Until now, it has only existed as a PDF file.
Last night, I sent a copy to Kevin Burton of TailRank in response to some of his recent [...]
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Browsers: The Window and The Firehose
In: Commentary| Technology
3 Sep 2008Three years ago, in a post on this blog, I stated that I thought that the browser was becoming less important as more data moved into streams of data through RSS and aggregated feeds, as well as a raft of other consumer-oriented Web services.
This position was based on the assumption that the endpoint, in the [...]