Posts Tagged ‘gif

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 [...]

In a previous paper, the use of mod_gzip to dynamically compress the output from an Apache server. With the growing use of the Apache 2.0.x family of Web servers, the question arises of how to perform a similar GZIP-encoding function within this server. The developers of the Apache 2.0.x servers have included a module in [...]

My Jimi Wallet

In: GTD| Life

24 Apr 2006

My Jimi Wallet arrived today. And it is exactly as advertised.
Small. Compact. Solid.

It forces you to seriously consider the items that you need to take with you on your everyday. I narrowed it down to exactly what I thought it would in this post.
What I am waiting for are the hacks that are sure [...]

It turns out that my boss had an old Treo 600 lying around the house he wasn’t using. And it turns out that it was a T-Mobile Treo 600, not the Verizon crud that the company provides. And since the company upgraded him to a Verizon Treo 700 (which doesn’t work in Europe, much to [...]

The Trees are Tapped

In: Life

18 Mar 2006

If you are a long time reader, you know that we have three very large Sugar Maples in the front yard of our house. This allows us to do our very own back to the farm routine every spring: tapping the trees and making Maple Syrup.
It sounds like a romantic exercise, and is often portrayed [...]

Ok, this is a weird set of data, gathered by our friends over at the Internet Traffic Report

Any of you black-shirted, BGP-lovin’, AS-hoarding packet geeks out there want to comment on what happened on or about Oct 27-29, 2005? I am sure the rest of us would LOVE to know.

Technorati: bgp, Internet, Routing, internet performance
IceRocket: [...]

More Random Tom Waits

In: smp

18 Oct 2005

For lack of anything intelligent to say right now…
Step Right Up
Tom Waits
from Small Change
Step right up
step right up
step right up
Everyone’s a winner, bargains galore
That’s right, you too can be the proud owner
Of the quality goes in before the name goes on
One-tenth of a dollar
one-tenth of a dollar
we got service after sales
You need perfume? we got [...]

Google Moon

In: smp

20 Jul 2005

You know you want to. DO IT! Click the button!

I really like the maximum zoom level! Very detailed!

Technorati: Google, Google Moon
IceRocket: Google, Google Moon

Surely you remember John Mitchell! Well, he was Attorney-General.
And he went to jail.
© Gary Trudeau — 1973/1974
Michael Feldman reminds us all about this sorry state of affairs.[here]

Technorati: Karl Rove, KarlRove

Stare at the cross…

In: smp

12 Jul 2005

Just stare at the cross.
Now, if you don’t get seasick, what happens?

Isn’t the brain weird?
Via: OMdC::log

Technorati: optical illusion


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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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