Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Notebook Lust
7 Aug 2006For history fiends, enthusiasts of lost treasures, and lovers of a good mystery, the discovery of the Archimedes Palimpsest has been one of those stories that must be followed.
The texts contained in the Palimpsest were lost to humanity for hundreds of years as a result of a common Medieval European tradition — the re-use of [...]
In: Web Performance
14 Jun 2006I am doing a brief study on something I have noticed in a couple of sites running Windows 2000 Server and IIS/5.0, most notably with server-based SSL in place. In order to verify my findings, I need a larger subset of sites/servers to gather data from.
If you have such a site, please leave me a [...]
In: Life
20 Apr 2006Looks like my brother Dave and I will be in different places in Europe at the same time. He is going to be in Warsaw (Ah! the ancestral homeland of our Family Name!) and I will be in London and Hamburg.
For those of you who track these things:
London – May 13 – 17 (evening)Hamburg – [...]
At Gate 80, Terminal 3, SFO. Likely I will be in and around this area for a while, as my flight leaves at 23:20 PST (It’s currently 17:20 PST).
Drop by if you’re in the area…Heh!
Technorati Tags: SFO
In: Life| Technology
8 Mar 2006I heard (via TechCrunch and Om Malik and PubSub) that there is some … transition at PubSub.
Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for PubSub, because Bob Wyman was the first person to really notice and appreciate the things I was doing at GrabPERF. I wonder what the future holds for this team.
Frankly, [...]
In: Uncategorized
12 Feb 2006Last night, when I came in from work, I turned off the last of the powerful (ok, back in 1999 they were) servers that have been running in my basement for the last 2 years.
When I go down there now, it is eerily quiet. Spooky actually.
It’s weird to know that something you control is 3,000 [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
22 Oct 2005The Yahoo! BlogSearch started off showing less than remarkable results in terms of performance (I leave the qalitative judgement to other critics). Over the last 11 days, the team at Yahoo! have realized that there may be an issue, and they have been working on it.
On Thursday afternoon (Oct 20, 2005), they obviously implemented a [...]
In: smp
16 Sep 2005Now it’s your turn to suffer with this.
CEMETARY POLKA
Tom Waits
Uncle Vernon, Uncle Vernon
Independent as a hog on ice
He’s a big-shot down there at the slaughterhouse
Plays accordion for Mister Weiss
Uncle Biltmore and Uncle William
Made a million during World War II
But they’re tightwads and they’re cheapskates
And they’ll never give a dime to you
Auntie Mame has gone insane
She [...]
In: smp
15 Sep 2005This morning, I asked the ERTW.com measurement location to turn down, as we have completed testing the remote measurement code.
This will have some effect on results going forward, mostly positive. The ERTW.com location had an unusual DNS configuration which was affecting the overall measurement statistics.
I am still recruiting for measurement locations on the West Coast. [...]
In: RANTING
11 Jul 2005Karl:
I hear you’ve done a lot of good work for the Bush Cabal over the last eight years. I mean, you turned John McCain’s name to mud, you got the weasel…errr, President re-elected, you’ve controlled the media more effectively than Ron Ziegler.
However, when the White House decided to turn on Joseph Wilson, you volunteered to [...]