I know that I have been bad at blogging news about GrabPERF, but today there is some. In the last two weeks, we have added two measurement locations: Washington DC AOL and Argentina LaNacion.

Thanks to Carson Evans of AOL, and Jose Falvo and Leonardo Lancellotta of LaNacion for helping out with the installation process.

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So, on New Years Eve, due to the vagaries of modern air travel, the family will be spending seven hours at Sea-Tac waiting for the second leg of our trip home.

For me, this is usually not an issue, as I can huddle up in a corner with my wireless connection and while away the hours with work and general interest. However, we will be a one laptop family, and my children need to be entertained.

Likely at least an hour of the trip will be handled by immigration as they subject us to the joys of entry with our Advanced Parole documents. It’s now harder for us to get into the US via air as late process Green Card applicants than it is if we were simply visiting the country.

After that, who knows.

Does anyone out there in blog land have any great suggestions for entertaining a family for seven hours at an airport?

Tags: Advanced Parole, app, blog, children, content, Green Card, HTTP, IE, IM, Immigration, IP, ISP, it, LAN, Om, One, pr, Technorati

Don’t really need to explain this, do we?

Via Core77 and LuxuryLaunches

Tags: ASP, blog, content, HTTP, IM, ISP, it, Om, PHP, San Francisco, Technorati

I am often chided for my 5-shot, Venti Latte.

Then I saw this.

Yup, it’s a “a 13 shot Venti soy hazelnut vanilla cinnamon white mocha with extra white mocha and caramel”.

Lord help this person when they wake up in the alley behind Starbucks on Christmas Day.

Original image from Core77.

Tags: ASP, blog, Christmas Day, content, HTTP, IM, ISP, it, Om, pr, Starbucks, Technorati

Landed in the US on a one-day business trip today. The family is enjoying Christmas with the grandparents in Victoria, BC, and I need to work remotely to cover the time.

I flew into Seattle for a one-day trip, with my brand-new Advanced Parole documents. Figured it would be speedy.

90 minutes later, they let someone who has gone through a number of security checks and other body scans into the US.

Have to wonder what people from other countries have to go through.

Technorati Tags: Green Card, Advanced Parole, immigration, strip search, body cavity

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This morning we dragged the family out of beg at a ridiculous hour for an adventure into downtown Boston.

It was a big day in the Green Card Process: We were off to get fingerprinted and have our pictures taken. This is a big step, as we can now be cross-referenced against all of the major security databases to verify whether we are criminals or not.

However, the biggest step came about 10 days ago when we got our Advanced Parole documents.

For those of you who have managed to avoid this happy process, an Advanced Parole document is a document that states that I have the rights and privileges of a Green Card holder, but I am on double-secret probation.

The other big deal with this is that I can take on contract work, and Samantha can get a job if she so desires.

Our fortunes may be looking up?

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Green Card, USCIS, Advanced Parole, Immigration

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Want to follow all the Holiday Retail Fun? Check out the GrabPERF Black Friday Dashboard! Follow the Web performance of your favorite retailer all the time!

New and updated for 2008!

This morning, Tiger Direct effectively imploded.

Bad day.

UPDATE: Looks like they found the solution to their problem.

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Grabperf, Web performance, Tiger Direct, Cyber Monday

Tags: GrabPERF, HTTP, IE, IM, it, LAN, Om, performance, pr, Technorati, update, web, Web Performance, Web+performance

Today’s biggest victim of Black Friday appears to be Sears

Sears measurement data for the last 8 hours can be found here.

UPDATE: It gets worse for Sears.

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Grabperf, Sears, Black Friday, Web Performance

Tags: app, data, GrabPERF, GrabPERF.org, HTTP, IE, IM, it, LAN, measurement, Om, performance, PHP, Technorati, update, web, Web Performance, Web+performance

Look ma: Macy’s is already too busy.

Yeah. Let the fun begin.

Technorati: GrabPERF “Black Friday” “Web Performance” “Macy’s”

Tags: EAD, GrabPERF, HTTP, IE, IM, it, Mac, Om, performance, Technorati, web

Ok, for my birthday (November 14), I am going to Columbus, OH.

Could be worse.

Couldn’t it?

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Columbus, Ohio, birthday, 39, travel

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