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10 Feb 2006What more can I say?
Adult ADD Strengths » Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career
I am the person they describe in this article.
And my boredom level is running high…resume link!
Technorati Tags: ADD, ADHD, IT, internet
In: Blogging| GrabPERF| Life| Technology| Web Performance
17 Nov 2005Dan Bricklin writes up a great description of what I am getting next week: Verizon FiOS. [here]
So, now you know. It’s the PPPoE that’s going to kill my static connection to the Internet.
Any of you folks who volunteered to host GrabPERF, now would be a great time to step forward.
UPDATE: We have a new home:
http://newestindustry.wordpress.com/
Stop by and check us out.
UPDATE: The shutdown date has been set.
NOVEMBER 22, 2005
Ok folks, this is it.
Last Call.
We have reached a point where the cost of the cable modem that connects my servers to the Internet has to be slashed.
Without the semi-static IP that I have had for the [...]
In: RANTING| Technology| Web Performance
9 Nov 2005Ok, 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: [...]
In: GrabPERF
26 Oct 2005For reasons that I have yet to discover, my outbound connection to the Internet appears to have been down between the times listed in the title.
As I have said before, my connection is less than “professional grade”, i.e. “don’t do this at home”.
If I find a cause, I will update.
I apologize for the incovenience.
UPDATE: Ouch.
Found [...]
In: smp
7 Oct 2005UPDATE: Geek News Central sees it another way. They see Cogent as hitching a free ride and getting thrown off the bus finally. Either way, the bacbone providers are about to realize that they aren’t the ones with power anymore.
The lawsuits from this should be interesting, and are likely going to expose many of the [...]
In: smp
4 Oct 2005Go sign the position asking eBay to make their Web site open standards compliant, instead of Microsoft-compliant. [here]
Via: Mozillazine
In: smp
3 Oct 2005Ok, huge title for this little gem.
Next Up: Google Office?
Oh…I can feel the pain in Redmond tonight.
Steve, I hope your platinum parachute is packed well. I have a feeling the board may start asking for your head.
And the Massachusetts’ decison to go with OpenOffice/StarOffice looks to be not so weird.
In: smp
3 Oct 2005Maybe Going to Work Should be the Exception
Damn straight.
I get more done in my corner desk, in my attic, away from the dysfunctional environment know as the open-plan office.
And a 50 mile-a-day roundtrip commute — oh yeah! We all live for that!
In my case, the motto is simple: It’s the INTERNET, stupid!
In: smp
30 Sep 2005A colleague in Germany forwarded me this interesting Microsoft knowledgebase article.
Internet Explorer May Lose the First 2,048 Bytes of Data That Are Sent Back from a Web Server That Uses HTTP Compression
This appears to only happen if another program registers (Real8 Download is the example given in the KB article) to use some of the [...]