Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
I ANYONE wanted to buy me something that would make me worship the ground they walk on, the Phaidon Design Classics would be the thing.
This is a series of three volumes that contain 999 of the modern design classics. It’s one of those things that you have around, you pick up, and you go “wow”.
But [...]
In: Architecture / Design| Life| Photos
31 Jan 2007I truly have become addicted to Dwell, reading issues over and over again, trying to extract something new from them.
Yesterday, after a seemingly endless wait, March 2007 arrived.
Ahhhhhhhhh….mmmmmm….
Call me in a month.
Technorati tags: Dwell, Dwell magazine, architecture, design, lust
In: Life
30 Nov 2006Just went online and thought I would share the Yahoo TV comments so far.
Rushi’s Ramblings
Jason Blogs
Paul Kedrosky
Dave Winer
RowdyData
Oh, and my comments.
Yahoo, please give us an opt-out on this monstrosity. Or better yet, do a complete rollback.
Technorati Tags: Yahoo, Yahoo+TV, Bad+Design, Web+2.0, Bad+upgrade
Looks like Yahoo TV upgraded overnight.
Guess I will get my TV schedule information from other sources now.
DHTML/AJAX Schedule is slow and confusing.
Front page looks like a Flash designer got lucky — Look at all the dancing images!
Complex, complicated, and visually disturbing.
Oh, and no option to downgrade to the original, functional version.
All I want is the [...]
One of the lengthy conversations I have had with my wife as I work my way through understanding how my bipolar works and affects my life focused on how I think, and see the world.
I am just now coming to terms with the fact that the filters I process my world through are radically different than [...]
In: RANTING
7 Oct 2006Today, they christened the Nimitz-class carrier, George H.W. Bush.
Still a few bugs to work out. Seems the navigation system breaks down after it has seen battle, causing it to wander aimlessly, and eventually become lost. It is especially vulnerable to attack by more than one enemy simultaneously, which in some simulations has forced the commander [...]
In: Web Performance
21 Jul 2006Dear Flickr:
I have been wondering for sometime why downloads from your site seemed a little sluggish at times.
At first I blamed your unprecedented growth and success. For a little Vancouver startup (I am a BC boy myself), your entrance onto the stage of social networking applications has been phenomenal. The move from zero to infinity [...]
In: Life
3 Apr 2006Samantha decided to re-design the stone path alongside our house this weekend. When she tried to position one of the stones, she encountered what she thought was a large buried rock. This would not be surprising in New England.
Being a good husband, I offered to try extracting it for her.
An hour later, we were staring [...]
In: GrabPERF
19 Feb 2006If anyone wants to know why I am proud of GrabPERF, this graph should give you a clue.
Every hour, an aggregated value is produced for every test url. Counting up the Geometric Mean aggregations on a daily basis, the growth line is pretty amazing.
Doing a rough calculation, the system has grown from testing 40 urls [...]
In: smp
5 Oct 2005GrabPERF is FOR SALE.
I have reached the limits of my coding, database administration and time available to keep GrabPERF growing and evolving.
What is for sale?
The GrabPERF Domain — grabperf.org
Measurement scripts
Database design and current contents of the database
Automated processing scripts and batch jobs
Web GUI code
Consulting time from me to install, and configure the GrabPERF system at [...]