Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
I just found out today that I one of the ever decreasing number of Canadians who has a free five-year work visa waiting for them in the United Kingdom, courtesy of their grandparents.
It’s called the UK Ancestry Visa, and it opens up a whole new set of options to me. It streamlines the hideous visa [...]
In: Technology
26 Sep 2006I was futzing around with my WRT54G(L) last night and did something wrong. I thought I had bricked the damn thing. Much cursing and swearing ensued as I put a BEFSX41 on the front-end of the network (I have three of these; don’t ask why) and wandered upstairs with the lump of black and blue [...]
In: Life| Technology
18 Sep 2006Today, I took an inventory of the portable storage solutions I have with me at all times.
On the bottom, a Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition at 100GB. In the middle, an 8GB Zen Microphoto. On to, a mostly useless iPod Shuffle that I use as a thumbdrive.
The top two are provided for context. I also [...]
In: Web Performance| Web performance concepts| WebPerformance.Org
30 Aug 2006In the previous article in this series, I talked about the fallacy of ‘average’ performance. Now that this has been dismissed, what do I propose to replace it with. There are three aggregated values that can be used to better represent Web performance data:
Median
Geometric Mean
85th (or higher) Percentile
The links take you to articles that better [...]
I have been running the GrabPERF Compression and Performance study for less than a week, but I thought that I should share some of the initial results with everyone.
As you can see above, the byte transmission savings gained by some sites is pretty astounding. Google News sends a pages with a median weight of near [...]
This post has two underlying reasons for existing: 1) to test out the new MSFT Live Writer Beta; and 2) to talk about a great story that GigaOm pointed us to today.
Om Malik pointed out a story in the Seattle Times today that talked about “Broadband in the Boonies”. Having grown up in the boonies [...]
In: Web Performance
21 Jul 2006Dear Flickr:
I have been wondering for sometime why downloads from your site seemed a little sluggish at times.
At first I blamed your unprecedented growth and success. For a little Vancouver startup (I am a BC boy myself), your entrance onto the stage of social networking applications has been phenomenal. The move from zero to infinity [...]
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19 Apr 2006I read about the Jimi Wallet on 43 Folders today.
I immediately ordered 2: one for me and one for Samantha.
We have both pared ourselves down to the bare essentials already, and this is one more step in that direction. I can see it being especially useful when you are travelling, when all you really need [...]
It took 3 calls, 6 people, and 90 minutes to resolve the problem with Samantha’s new Dimension 3100.
And what was the fix? A secret squirrel hotfix for Media Center.
Still wouldn’t buy another Dell.
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