Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: DNS| Internet| The Web| Web Performance
26 Mar 2009DNS hijacking is an occurrence that sends fear into the hearts of man and beast. It takes a perfectly harmless (yet critical) process and turns it into a weapon for chaos and mayhem.
This tool, however, does not simply reside in the hands of people looking to maliciously redirect traffic for purposes I can’t quite fathom [...]
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
Many, many years ago, I started my depressing voyage through the world of work at an Overwaitea food store in my home town. As a teenager, I expected to work so weird hours, and accept some level of abuse from the “adults” I worked with.
However, it seems that the organization now expects all their employees [...]
In: GrabPERF
11 Jan 2008I know that I have been bad at blogging news about GrabPERF, but today there is some. In the last two weeks, we have added two measurement locations: Washington DC AOL and Argentina LaNacion.
Thanks to Carson Evans of AOL, and Jose Falvo and Leonardo Lancellotta of LaNacion for helping out with the installation process.
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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 [...]
Don’t really need to explain this, do we?
Via Core77 and LuxuryLaunches
Technorati Tags: Excess,San francisco,Stupidity
I am often chided for my 5-shot, Venti Latte.
Then I saw this.
Yup, it’s a “a 13 shot Venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel”.
Lord help this person when they wake up in the alley behind Starbucks on Christmas Day.
Original image from Core77.
Technorati Tags: Starbucks,Core77,coffee,excess
In: GSM
16 Oct 2007Samantha’s second Samsung A560 died last week, so I got mad and called Sprint to try and get out of the contract. No way — a kidney and my eldest child is the only way to get out of this deal with the devil.
So, until March 2008, the phone will be powered down and stuck [...]