Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Life
2 Feb 2005Ouch!
I have never dropped a laptop, but I have caught my eldest prying the keys off a Toshiba Tecra 8100. Ever had to put the keys back on a laptop? When you are ham-handed like I am…it was a two-hour curse-fest with Samantha laughing at me, scolding the boy and grimacing at my language [...]
In: Life
4 Dec 2004Spent all day in bed.
Now before you go off the deep-end and start saying how decadent, you have to realize that I spent most of the time unconscious, sweating, and having very unusual vivid dreams. It was actually kind of nice to have vivid dream again; I don’t have them very often, as a result [...]
Web Performance, Part IX: Curse of the Single Metric
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org| Work
5 Sep 2008While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]