Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: Uncategorized
10 Oct 2008<sarcasm>
Currently, the Newest Industry sits at #1,106,225 in the Technorati Charts. I’m looking to break into the Technorati 1,000,000 before Christmas.
If Chris Brogan can get into the Technorati 100, I know I can do this!
Help me break into this elite group!
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In: Blogging
7 Aug 2008Or should I say, welcome back.
Three years ago when I started blogging on a regular basis, the blog was name The Newest Industry after the Husker Du song of the same name. Then I migrated the content to Wordpress.com, and relinquished hosting it myself.
Well, I have decided to resurrect Newest Industry, but with all the [...]
In: Life
2 Mar 2006Today, I re-named this blog. The Newest Industry had reached the end of a very long and satisfying road. It was time to “re-brand”.
But the content will remain remarkable unchanged!
Sort of like the real world.
Technorati Tags: crazycanuck, crazy canuck, re-branding
In: Life
10 Feb 2006If you are wondering about the picture at the top of this page (sorry for you folks in RSS readers, gotta head to the blog to see it), I can tell you one thing.
It is real.
[PS: Photo provided by Chris Magnusson.]
I grew up in the shadow if this mountain called, oddly enough, Mount Seven. The [...]
In: Uncategorized
7 Feb 2006Ok, this domain will live again!
Thanks to Matt and the Wordpress.com crew for putting up with my abuse over the last few months while we determined what was going to happen with the Newest Industry.
Welcome back?
UPDATE: We have a new home:
http://newestindustry.wordpress.com/
Stop by and check us out.
UPDATE: The shutdown date has been set.
NOVEMBER 22, 2005
Ok folks, this is it.
Last Call.
We have reached a point where the cost of the cable modem that connects my servers to the Internet has to be slashed.
Without the semi-static IP that I have had for the [...]
In: Life
25 Oct 2005Think I make this up?
These are the servers that power GrabPERF and this blog.
Don’t worry. The UPS on the floor is dead.
In: Blogging
25 Oct 2005Ok Everyone, if you start seeing some odd behaviour from my sites (GrabPERF, Newest Industry, Pierzchala.com), it’s because I am doing some testing to see if the scripts, processes, and applications I have built on top of MySQL 4.1 can stand the upgrade.
I will not be upgrading the primary database system until all of this [...]
In: smp
6 Oct 2005I’m not sure where they are in the path, but there is a serious connectivity issue with the Newest Industry.
Going to re-boot the Web server and see if that helps.