Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
Ok, as someone who is waiting for his Green Card, the story of the treatment allegedly received by Hiu Lui Ng frightens me. [BoingBoing link here. NY Times here ]
My Green Card has been in process for more than three years. We are supposedly approaching the end of the long road. But how do I [...]
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
13 Jul 2007As many readers know, I am going through the process — if you call filing a bunch of paperwork and not hearing anything for 2 years a process — of obtaining Permanent Residency in the United States, often referred to as the Green Card.
This morning, on NPR, there was a story about a foul-up in [...]
In: GrabPERF
19 Feb 2006If anyone wants to know why I am proud of GrabPERF, this graph should give you a clue.
Every hour, an aggregated value is produced for every test url. Counting up the Geometric Mean aggregations on a daily basis, the growth line is pretty amazing.
Doing a rough calculation, the system has grown from testing 40 urls [...]
In: smp
3 May 2005Business 2.0 is asking how much you would pay to read the NY Times online. [here]
My response: why? I don’t read newspapers anymore. I would pay nothing to read this online, when I can get news free from Reuters, BBC and Yahoo!, and commentary from blogs.
MSM just does not understand. Their model is broken. It [...]
In: Life
27 Apr 2005The A380 got off the ground. [here and here and here]
If you have ever been underneath a 747 on landing, as I have been many times (San Mateo, CA is under the flight path of SFO), and wondered how the hell these things stay in the air…imagine seeing an A380 for the first time.
I’m with [...]
In: smp
23 Apr 2005C|Net News has a great breakdown of this issue. [here]
C|Net’s Microsoft Blog has more. [here]
Here is the original story in The Stranger.
More in the NY Times.
Now that the bill has been defeated in the Washington State Senate (by a single vote), I no longer have any respect for Microsoft.
Shame on you Microsoft. You are now [...]
In: smp
5 Apr 2005Scott Berkun’s monthly essay is on the topic of why and how Smart People defend Bad Ideas. [here]
I have been in and seen people in these situations many times in my life. One of the great faculties we as human beings have is that which allows us to make decisions and then defend them.
But because [...]
In: smp
7 Feb 2005How many times have you encountered this?
Too often? Well, I have encountered it too often. I rarely shop in person anymore, just because of this. If retailers don’t start to get it…well, you know.
In: smp
8 Jan 2005Dan Gillmor mulls over the thought of whether the NY Times will charge for its online service.
My answer is: NO.
I am increasingly angered by newspapers that make their sites more and more irrelevant to me by hiding behind subscriptions and registrations. Do they need my marketing information?
If they will only make their online content available [...]
In: smp
16 Dec 2004I held the NY Times in my hand and was awed by the two-page spread. The people of the Spread Firefox team have outdone themselves.
A PDF of the ad can be downloaded (here and here).
Congratulations everyone.