Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In the past, I have lined up to buy Canadian Olympic team goods from Roots. Good quality, and just generally cool and useful stuff.
This year, HBC (the Hudson’s Bay Company) is doing Canadian Olympic apparel.
This is like grandma dressing a teenager.
I am so disappointed. What was the COC thinking?
Technorati Tags: Olympics, HBC, Roots, Canada
In: RANTING| Technology| Web Performance
15 Nov 2005So, you think that Google Analytics is hot and cool?
So, have you had any visitors yet?
I haven’t.
But hey, what about those silly Web server logs that say that I have had many, many visitors?
We are the Google; your data cannot be tracked; therefore, it is irrelevant.
So far, I am not impressed.
And I am not alone. [...]
In: GrabPERF| Software| Technology
11 Nov 2005MySQL 5.0 has a Blackhole Storage Engine. [here]
Cool. And if you make me grumpy, all of your performance data will be stored there!
Via: Jeremy Zawodny
In: smp
2 Oct 2005We live in a house built in 1920. One of the finest homes of that era still standing in our town.
But, like many homes of that era in the US, some of the main systems have been neglected since the house was built. One of these has been insulation.
Mission accomplished.
It was a dirty, nasty job, [...]
23 miles. Each way.
Every working day, I am supposed to merrily get in my little car and drive 23 miles to work. I know people who drive farther, sacrifice more, with nary a complaint.
Well, now I am complaining. I’m done. It’s over. This gig has run it’s course.
I won’t go into the frustrations I have [...]
In: smp
20 Sep 2005Over the next few weeks, you will begin to notice a change in GrabPERF. For those who visit us to examine the summary Search and News Index data, this data will continue to be openly published.
However, by the end of October 2005, all of the detail you have come to expect from GrabPERF will no [...]
In: smp
16 Jun 2005I don’t. I just checked my blog stats for referrals from search engines.
Technorati outpaces Google. All because I started tagging my posts.
Cool.
Technorati: SEO, Google, Technorati
In: GTD
14 Jun 2005…and I have heard a rumour that David Allen is adding them to GTD, Merlin and Dave Winer are porting them to MacOSX, SOGrady is building them on Gentoo, and Scoble uses them on his tablet. Kathy Sierra is evangelizing how they make happier screwers (???) and Darren Rowse has pointed out how to optimize [...]
In: smp
13 Jun 2005Geez, Cool Tools is all over “square-drive screws”. [here]
BFD.
For you people in the US, you have missed out on this technological advancement. These screws have been standard issue in Canada for at least 40 years — 85% of the screws sold in Canada are “square-drive”.
Oh, and BTW, they are ROBERTSON screws, not “square-drive”. How lame [...]
In: RANTING
4 Jun 2005It’s all over the web tonight. Intel-powered Apples. Back in the middle of May, I speculated that given the slow development on cooling the G5 enough to fit into a laptop, Apple was stuck. It had to choose either Intel or AMD to move forward.
Even if this predicted marriage does not come true, Apple has [...]