Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Browsers| Technology| The Web
3 Sep 2008Recently there was an outage at a hit-tracking vendor I was using to track the hits on my externally hosted blog, leaving me with a gap in my visitor data several hours long. While this was an inconvenience for me, I realized that this could be mission critical failure to an online business reliant on [...]
You hear a song off Bob Mould’s album Workbook used in a TIAA-CREF commercial.
I think I’ll just nip off and shoot myself.
Technorati Tags: Bob Mould,Husker Du,Workbook,TIAA-CREF,Commercials,Middle Age,midlife crisis
In: Life
3 Feb 2008I 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: Life
29 Dec 2007So, on New Years Eve, due to the vagaries of modern air travel, the family will be spending seven hours at Sea-Tac waiting for the second leg of our trip home.
For me, this is usually not an issue, as I can huddle up in a corner with my wireless connection and while away the hours [...]
In: Immigration
17 Dec 2007Landed in the US on a one-day business trip today. The family is enjoying Christmas with the grandparents in Victoria, BC, and I need to work remotely to cover the time.
I flew into Seattle for a one-day trip, with my brand-new Advanced Parole documents. Figured it would be speedy.
90 minutes later, they let someone who [...]
In: Life
3 Nov 2007Part 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 [...]
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
In: RANTING| Technology
27 Sep 2007I 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.
In: Life
20 Sep 2007The boys wanted a fire last night, so we fired up a pressed log, and all was well.
This morning, Samantha prepared the fireplace for a repeat tonight. We kept smelling the remnants of last nights fire smoldering, so we just lit the thing.
Guess the logs were lined up wrong.
Living Room full of smoke, billowing out [...]