Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Gutter Helmet
22 Aug 2008So, in my second rant of the day, I am falling back to my favourite target of tension: Gutter Helmet. This long-running saga in one that I wish I had never been involved in, and in 20/20 hindsight, I wish that I had just chosen to go with standard gutters, rather than some gadgety gimmick [...]
If you use GrabPERF on a regular basis, the somewhat flaky navigation method has become second nature to you. In fact, to circumvent some of the idiosyncrasies, you have probably bookmarked your favourite pages.
Yesterday, I broke your links.
When I redesigned GrabPERF in February 2006, I had just discover the require function in PHP, and decided [...]
Chatting with a friend in Australia, and I came up with this gem: “my code is like a tank”.
It’s slow, but built to withstand any sort of shit and abuse. I was describing the code that underlies GrabPERF. It was built to be ignored for long periods of time, performing a lot of self-maintenance.
I am still swamped at work, but I have a glimmer of space available to me, so I thought that I would drop by and let everyone know what’s happening.
We are well on our way to being ready for the trip to BC and Alberta that starts Monday (June 26). We have a dining room [...]
In: Life
30 May 2006Memorial Day was going to be a very quiet and relaxing day, hanging around the house, tinkering in the garden, nothing special.
Then, after cleaning up a mess in the basement, Samantha went out the basement bulkhead, and one of the doors came off it’s hinges. Which should be no surprise when they looked like this.
We [...]
In: RANTING
21 Apr 2006Usually I classify this sort of mail as complete nonsense, and delet it. But this one was such a classic, I had to post it.
The letter is from the new CEO of the joint Borland/Segue. He is announcing that he thinks that Segue and Borland customers will be able to find cool ways to use [...]
In: Gutter Helmet
19 Oct 2005Hey everybody! Looks like someone else had a bad experience with a Gutter Helmet installer. [here]
Berry was dismayed to discover that his $3,500 gutter-protection system appeared to be inviting one of the very maintenance nightmares it was supposed to protect against: roof rot. Two leaks sprang up after the pricey helmets had been installed, he [...]
In: smp
3 Oct 2005Now, there is 296MB for of data in the GrabPERF database.
Not a big database, by any stretch of the imagination. Nor is it a complex one. But I was impressed to see this this morning when I did routine maintenance.
And you know what? Most of you only have access to less than 10% of the [...]
In: smp
7 Jul 2005Niall Kennedy posted that the performance degradation at Technorati this morning was not due to traffic resulting from the London Attacks, but due to maintenance on their systems. [here]
Just unfortunate timing. It happens.
In: GTD
3 Jun 2005Flickr:
I like to entertain myself by typing random words into your search engine and seeing what comes up.
I know: blows GTD all to hell. But it is interesting to see what is out there.
Anyway, the search function has been busted all day.
Gonna be back soon?
Thanks!