Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Technology| The Web| macbook
3 Nov 2008My new MacBook arrived two weeks ago, and I felt that I had spent enough time with it to actually make some useful comments on the good, the bad, and the headbangingly frustrating.
The Finder
Dear Apple: Shoot the Finder development team. Thanks.
I have switched to Path Finder as a Finder replacement. Truly the finder is one [...]
In: Life
12 Aug 2008The post says it all
Burmese Refugee Children Love Macs from Joyce Kim on Vimeo.
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
23 Nov 2007Look ma: Macy’s is already too busy.
Yeah. Let the fun begin.
Technorati: GrabPERF “Black Friday” “Web Performance” “Macy’s”
A colleague of mine suggested that the Tour de France give up all pretense of being drug free, and embrace the performance-enhancing image it has developed so carefully over the last quarter century.
His idea was to have the racing teams sponsored by the major pharmaceutical firms, pitting one performance-enhancing approach against another, in a competition [...]
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
4 Apr 2007This morning, after months of increasing performance issues, and connectivity issues, I have retired the Boston Verizon measurement location. This location hosted 2 measurement agents.
The machines, hosted in my basement, are connected using Verizon FiOS, which has become increasingly flaky over the last couple of months. As well, the machines are 7 year old Pentium [...]
In: Blogging| RANTING| Technology
10 Jan 2007MacYawn
Now, shut up and go back to the interesting stuff.
Thank you.
Apparently there’s quite the blizzard pounding Colorado. [here and here]
And your point is…?
Remember:
You live at 3,000 ft and above
Those big rocky and pointy things in your backyard? They might have some effect on the weather
It’s Winter…well, officially tomorrow
I gew up in the Rocky Mountain Trench. After November 1st, it’s not if, it’s when the snow [...]
In: Life
11 Oct 2006As a teenager growing up in a very small logging town in the BC interior, I had what could be politely termed unusual musical tastes, especially for the mainstream, heavy-metal, hair-banging kids I hung around with.
But when I was alone with my walkman, I listened to the real geniuses of 80s rock: REM, Kate Bush, [...]
Citizens Bank Outage
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.
Some days, your bank needs to get smacked around.
This is one of those times.
What is going on?