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Want to follow all the Holiday Retail Fun? Check out the GrabPERF Black Friday Dashboard! Follow the Web performance of your favorite retailer all the time!
New and updated for 2008!

This morning, Tiger Direct effectively imploded.

Bad day.
UPDATE: Looks like they found the solution to their problem.

Technorati Tags:
Grabperf, Web performance, Tiger Direct, Cyber Monday

Today’s biggest victim of Black Friday appears to be Sears

Sears measurement data for the last 8 hours can be found here.
UPDATE: It gets worse for Sears.

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Grabperf, Sears, Black Friday, Web Performance

Look ma: Macy’s is already too busy.

Yeah. Let the fun begin.
Technorati: GrabPERF “Black Friday” “Web Performance” “Macy’s”

mon.itor.us, a service which also provides free Web performance measurement services, appears to be having a wee problem.

The most recent GrabPERF data on this site is available here. The issue may be corrected by the time you look at the data.
I don’t wish suffering like this on anyone. GrabPERF had it’s own 3-4 day outage [...]

I am a sucker for dogs.
It’s pretty much a global statement. Ok, excluding genetic freaks that appear on the arms of Paris Hilton and ladies who lunch.
However, the rule is: the goofier the dog, the better.
Samantha and I use the laugh factor when selecting our dogs. If we see the dog, and it makes us [...]

Part of the problem with making a lot of East to West trips across the US is that the flights back are a nightmare for timing. You either lose most of a day or have to take a red-eye.
Well, taking the red-eye has only one advantage: you get to camp in the airline lounge and [...]

If you have been trying to send me stuff at my personal email address, it seems that Namesecure.com has decided to take it’s sweet time setting up my new email services.
Right now, if you try and send mail, the MX record reports that there is an NXDOMAIN.
I am not happy.
Technorati Tags: Namesecure, Namesecure.com, MX, [...]

Travelling with Bill

In: Life| Work

22 Oct 2007

My colleague Roger went on his first business road trip last week.
It was from hell. He spent some time detailing the whole hellish experience here.
On November 14-15, I am travelling with Roger to Columbus, OH. I have promised to make it a much more…enjoyable experience.
Technorati Tags: travel, business, bad trips, Los Angeles

I have a problem: I like to collect GSM phones. Right now, I have seven.

From left to right.

MOTORAZR V3

MOTORIZR Z3

MOTOSLVR L7i (current phone in use)

Motorola V188 (running V220 software)

Sony Ericsson K700i

Nokia of some description

Samsung T619

Ugh.

GrabPERF returned to service at approximately 17:30 GMT (13:30 EDT — 10:30 PDT) September 20 2007. The database server was on all night, but an esoteric choice of primary interfaces (i.e. the least obvious one!) meant that it was taking to empty space.
Have fun and enjoy the data!


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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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